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The Tennis Foundation provides practical advice to help you secure charitable or sponsorship monies for your club development plans. The objectives of the Tennis Foundation do not allow it to support Private Tennis Club development.

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Tennis Foundation Expertise

If you are going to provide effective tennis delivery we believe you need not only good facilites, but people who can enable people of all ages and abilities to enjoy Tennis

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What funds are available?

The Tennis Foundation will be supporting a number of priority areas in 2008-9. These are:

  • Inclusive schools delivery
  • Hotspot development
  • Disability performance
  • Tennis in Parks
 

The Tennis Foundation will offer advice and support when preparing any funding application. Once you have considered a potential funding soure, the next step is to put together a Project Overview and Costing Plan.

What makes a good application?

  1. What is your project?
    • What is the problem?
    • What is the solution?
    • What will the outcome be?
    • How many people will benefit?
    • How will you know your project is a success?
    • Plan in advance & allow time
    • Identify all potential partners
  2. Clarify your needs
    • What do you want?
    • Why do you want it?
    • Who is involved?
    • Who do you need involved?
    • Why do you need them?
    • How can you get them involved?
  3. Impress your funder
    • What are their criteria for giving?
    • How will you meet the needs of your project?
    • Show the problem in a new way
    • Provide measurable outcomes
    • Show how the project will be assessed and evaluated
    • Provide realistic and accurate costs
    • Add to your credibility by obtaining support and partnership from other interested agencies
    • Identify match and future funding
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You can email these back to us for feedback.

How to choose a potential funder

Please consider the following if you would like to make a funding application:

  1. How appropriate is the funder? - Have a look at the funder's website to see if their aims and objectives coincide with yours.
  2. Consult your LTA Representative
  3. Consult your County Sport Partnership.
  4. Have a look at the Sport England and National Lottery funding streams.
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There are many funding sources available for you to consider, these include;

Follow the links to the relevant websites for more information about each source

A winning chance!

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1. Plan for success - most important! Appreciate your timing needs in line with the funders time lines and make sure they match up! Have enough time to secure all the necessary partnership support

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2. Research your potential funder thoroughly. Make sure you are a good match for each other.

3. Identify the need - to secure funds you need to persuade the donor that there is a problem to be solved and you can do it! Ask yourself Why on earth should anyone want to support us? What is so important about what we are doing?

 

Ingredients of a good application:

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  • Project title
  • Summary sentence
  • Introduction - who you are
  • The problem - why something needs to be done
  • Your proposal - the solution you offer
  • Why you should do it
  • The amount you need
  • The request - how much to ask for
  • The funding plan - how you will secure the other funds
  • The future

Remember to sell yourselves!!