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SAPCA The Sports and Play Construction Association
The Sports and Play Construction Association, SAPCA is the UK trade association for the sports facility construction industry. SAPCA represents specialist constructors, manufacturers and suppliers of sports surfaces and related products and plays an important role in the promotion of high standards for sports facilities.

OFSTED
The new Ofsted – the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills – came into being on 1 April 2007. It brings together the wide experience of four formerly separate inspectorates. It will inspect and regulate care for children and young people, and inspect education and training for learners of all ages.

Lottery Funding
Lottery Funding is a joint website run by all Lottery funders in the UK. This site allows you to search information on current funding programmes across the UK.

Big Lottery Fund
Big Lottery Fund is a new organisation that will give half the money for good causes from the National Lottery. Big Lottery Fund was created by merging the New Opportunities Fund and the Community Fund.

Football Foundation
The Football Foundation was launched in July 2000, by the football authorities and the Government to provide investment into the grass roots of football. The Foundation represents a unique partnership of the FA Premier League, the Football Association, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport/Sport England who jointly contribute £53m that the Football Foundation distributes in grant aid.

Sports Match
Sportsmatch is the government's grass roots sports sponsorship incentive scheme, funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport through grant aid from Sport England and administered in England by the Institute of Sports Sponsorship.

Barclays Spaces For Sports
Barclays Spaces for Sports, in partnership with the charities The Football Foundation and Groundwork, works with local communities to transform neglected land into the sporting facilities they want.

Sport England
Sport England is a non-departmental public body and National Lottery distributor, and is committed to creating a world leading community sports development system and increasing participation in sport.

Awards For All
Awards for All is a grants programme set up up to help small groups. It is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Arts Council of England, Sport England, the New Opportunities Fund and the Community Fund.

Play England
Play England's aim is for all children and young people in England to have regular access and opportunity for free, inclusive, local play provision and play space.

Foundation For Sports And Arts
The Foundation for Sport and the Arts give grants to a wide range of projects to sports and arts organisations.

National Playing Fields Association
A national organisation with responsibility for acquiring, protecting and improving playing fields, playgrounds and playspace where they are most needed.

Learning Through Landscapes
Help and information on improving the environmental quality and educational use of school playgrounds.

New Opportunities Fund
Grants available to support out of school learning activities, particularly for those who suffer disadvantages.

manufacturers.website-directory-uk.com
Manufacturers Directory Website

Abbey Charitable Trust
The Abbey Charitable Trust is for projects with charitable status. It favours small, local charities and also prefers to fund a complete project rather than make a partial donation to a fundraising campaign. It focuses on areas where it has established community partnership groups- these are Camden, Glasgow, Bradford, Milton Keynes, Sheffield, Northern Ireland and Teesside. Outside of these areas grants can be from £250 to £2,500 but within the ceiling is £20,000

Alec Dickson
The Alec Dickson Trust was formed in 1994 as a memorial to Alec Dickson, the founder of Voluntary Service Overseas and Community Service Volunteers. It awards funding to people aged under 30 who are able to demonstrate that through volunteering or community action, they can enhance the lives of others, particularly those most marginalised by society. Most grants are below £250

Reaching Communities
A 3 year England wide programme launched by Big Lottery, to provide funding for projects that respond to needs identified by communities. Grants are between £10,000 and £50,000 and are Capital and Revenue grants for England wide projects lasting upto 5 years. Funds are to help improve local communities and the lives of the people most in need. The programme is open to registered charities, voluntary or community groups, statutory bodies, charitable or not-for-profit companies and social enterprises.

Awards for all Scotland
Grants from Awards for All are between £500 and £5,000. The funders are Scottish Arts Council, the Heritage Lottery Fund, Sportscotland and the Big Lottery Fund. They aim to fund projects that actively involve people in their local community, bringing them together to take part in heritage, charitable, health, educational, environmental and other community activities. Not-for-profit groups, parish/town councils and schools and health bodies can apply. Applicants must be able to spend the grant within one year.

Awards for all Wales
Grants from Awards for All are between £500 and £5,000. The funders are the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big Lottery Fund. They aim to fund projects that involve people in their local community, bringing them together to take part in heritage, charitable, health, educational, environmental and other community activities. Not-for-profit groups, parish/town councils and schools and health bodies can apply. Applicants must be able to spend the grant within one year.

Green Space
A registered charity set up to help those committed to the planning, design, management and use of public parks and open spaces. Previously known as the 'Urban Parks Forum', GreenSpace has grown from strength to strength and has formed strong relationships with the key government departments, agencies and non-governmental organisations involved in parks and public spaces. Grants do not usually exceed £50,000 but may be used for a wide variety of purposes including playground equipment.

Advice Plus
Advice Plus funded £50m between 2006 and 2009. Projects can apply for between £10,000 and £500,000 for capital and revenue projects lasting upto 5 years. It is funded by the Big Lottery Fund. The aim of Advice Plus is to ensure more people have access to advise services that help them access benefits they may be entitled to, in areas such as housing, education, health and welfare. Voluntary and community bodies in England- including charities, credit unions, self-help groups, social and community enterprises and community-based co-ops.

Awards for all Northern Ireland
Grants from Awards for All are between £500 and £10,000. The fund is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Heritage Lottery Fund, the Big Lottery Fund and the Sports Council for Northern Ireland. They aim to make small grants that extend access and active participation. Not-for-profit groups, parish/town councils and schools and health bodies can apply.

Action Earth Scotland
Action Earth Scotland provide small grants up to £50. They are funded by Scottish Natural Heritage administered by Community Service Volunteers. They aim to involve voluntary organisations, schools, businesses and community groups in projects of environmental benefit. Anyone can apply, but the focus is on areas of social disadvantage and those which have not previously been involved in environmental work.

Welsh Assembly Government- Grant is specific to Wales

The Welsh Assembly Government money is used by its staff, the public bodies it sponsors and those of Assembly Government Sponsored Public Bodies (AGSPBs) for funding and for making available grants schemes and initiatives in line with the Assembly Government's agenda. Where grants are available from the Assembly Government, different teams of staff across the department advise, deal with and process applications according to the nature of the grant. Further information about grants can be found in the relevent topic areas on the above site.

Prince's Trust Cymru- Grant is specific to Wales
For young people and community bodies undertaking sustainable projects

Shell Better Britain Campaign

Shell Better Britain Campaign awards grants of up to £2,000 for projects that show both community and environmental benefit. Projects should be led by the local community, make a positive difference to the local environment, address wider environmental issues and bring the community closer together.

Parks for People

Parks for People offers grants for projects involving urban or rural green spaces designed for informal recreation and enjoyment.

The definition of a park for this programme is as follows:

an existing designed urban or rural green space, the main purpose of which is for informal recreation and enjoyment.

it includes parks, gardens, squares, walks and promenades.

Grants are between £250,000 and £5million. Project planning grants of up to £50,000 are also available.

Mentro Allan- Grant is specific to Wales
Mentro Allan is a Big Lottery Fund programme aimed at encouraging hard to reach groups in Wales to take part in physical activity in their local natural environment.