Small Grants Fund

SMALL GRANTS FUND

Essex Playing Fields Association operates a Small Grants Fund for the benefit of its members.

We appreciate that many organisations need to make unbudgeted repairs or improvements to their playing field or playground facilities from time to time and simply don’t have the finances to undertake the work.  Furthermore, because often the amounts involved are relatively modest, they fall beneath the radar of more well-known and well-publicised grant providers, or else the amount of paperwork required to make the application is not commensurate with the sum being applied for in the first place!

This is where we come in.

We typically make grants of anything from £200 to £1,000, and the application form – which can be downloaded from this site – should take no more than a few minutes to complete.

Our SGF Committee sits twice a year.  Applications need to be received by our Secretary by 15 February or 15 August in order to be considered at the meetings held in March and September.

Please note, however, that the rules of the Fund state that to be considered for a grant, applicants must be current members of EPFA and must have been members for a minimum of twelve months.

If you are interested the document can be downloaded from Members Services.

Recent recipients of grants from us include:

• Braintree Cricket Club  -  £420 for training courses for new colts’ coaches
• Finchingfield Parish Council  -  £475 towards steel mini goals, nets and supports.
• Hatfield Peverel Parish Council  -  £500 towards replacement fencing and picnic tables at the Strutt Memorial Recreation Ground.
• Orsett Cricket Club  -  £1,000 towards relaying their vandalised square
• Ashdon Parish Council  -  £1,000 towards development of new playing field
• Alresford Parish Council - £500 towards refurbishing children’s playground and replacing roundabout
• Earls Colne Cricket Club  -  £300 to improve their square  

North Fambridge Parish Council - £600 towards fencing the recreation ground
Brentwood Cricket Club - £1,000 towards producing two new colts pitches
Rayleigh Town Council - £1,000 towards playground equipment
West Bergholt Cricket Club - £500 towards mower repairs

Any grant supplied is conditional upon the project being completed within six months of the funding being made.  Recipients are also encouraged to provide photographs of the completed project for our records and which may be reproduced on our website and/or in our Newsletter.