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 April and September.
If you are interested, click on the link at the bottom of the page to download and print off the document.
Recent recipients of grants from us include:
• Sheering Cricket Club - £500 towards a new mower
• Boreham Parish Council - £750 towards renovation and maintenance of recreation ground
• Lawford Parish Council - £1,000 towards replacement metal fence, enclosing play equipment
• Harlow Cricket Club - £500 towards preparation of grass practice wickets for Colts
• Shalford Village Hall - £500 towards renovation of football pitch / cricket outfield
• Feering Parish Council - £739 towards disabled access picnic bench and new litter bins
• Derek Flannery Playing Fields Association - £600 towards ground renovation and goal posts
• Radical Bikes CIC - £528 towards plant hire for dirt jump maintenance
• Ingatestone & Fryerning Parish Council - £1,000 towards a new multi games wall and tarmac surface
• Elsenham Youth Football Club - £1,000 towards the upgrade of the football field
• Fyfields Sports and Social Club - £1,000 towards the purchase of a multislit slitter
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.
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.
SMALL GRANTS FUND
