Funding and subsidies
How to secure some financial assistance for your club, league, organisation or to help with your coaching or officiating expenses.
Funding for clubs, leagues and community groups
There are many funding pots and organisations that may support those looking to develop their table tennis offer.
What is it?
Launched in April 2024, the Movement Fund offers crowdfunding pledges, grants and resources to improve physical activity opportunities for the people and communities who need it the most.
If your project aligns with certain priorities, they can fund a wide range of costs and items up to £15,000.
The focus is to support projects that match the goal of getting more people active, reducing the number of inactive people and tackling inequalities.
For more information visit: https://www.sportengland.org/funding-and-campaigns/our-funding/funding-guidance
A national network of community foundations, bringing together people and organisations that want to improve their communities.
Find your local Community Foundation
Hosted by the Yorkshire Sport Foundation, the site provides a list of potential sources of local & national funding streams specifically for clubs. The resource also includes a list of Non-traditional funding streams.
Find funding for your project: Funding for Clubs
There are 42 Active Partnerships across England who work with local partners and clubs to help increase physical activity and wellbeing. They have extensive knowledge of local and national funding opportunities, that could support your project.
To find local funding opportunities for your club select your Active Partnership and type in “Funding” into their search function, or contact them directly.
Visit: Active Partnerships
easyfundraising turns daily shopping into funding for your club!
Fundraising can be difficult in the current economic climate, which is why Table Tennis England has partnered with easyfundraising, a tech platform that will help clubs to generate funding at no cost to themselves.
easyfundraising gives clubs the chance to fundraise effortlessly through online shopping via an app, donation reminder or website with more than 7,000 brands including Tesco, Trainline, Booking.com and Amazon.
It’s the brand’s chance to be a part of something good and easyfundraising’s way of helping your club cash in when your supporters check out.
Visit: easyfundraising
Funding for outdoor spaces
Suggestions of useful funding streams, to add further weight/match funding to your projects, particularly useful for activation of outdoor space.
Projects can include new play equipment; landscaping works, including boardwalks, trees and shrubs; skate parks; woodland walks; nature trails; outdoor gyms. It generally includes projects that benefit people within their free time. Under this theme an applicant will have to show evidence of wider community use, involvement and consultation.
Visit: Biffa Award
For great local ideas of between £5,000 and £40,000 for up to two years. The programme is open in different parts of the country at different times.
Visit: The People’s Health Trust
Funding programmes designed to improve a broad range of publicly accessible amenities which benefit a wide cross section of the community. Whether improving a local play area or a nationally significant historic building, each project has the potential to transform the community in which it is based.
Visit: SUEZ Communities Trust
Under S106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, as amended, contributions can be sought from developers towards the costs of providing community and social infrastructure, the need for which has arisen as a result of a new development taking place. This funding is commonly known as ‘Section 106’.
A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £10,000.
Visit: Awards for All
Coaching and Officials
Financial assistance is available to coaches, while officials travelling abroad can apply for help with expenses.
Charlie was involved in our sport in a range of different capacities for over 40 years, including as a board member of Table Tennis England, before his untimely death at the age of 69 in March 2020.
The Charlie Childs Coaching Grant, launched in August 2021, will support:
- Table Tennis England Members starting or continuing their coaching journey
- Increasing participation from young people, women and girls, ethnic communities or disability communities
- Table Tennis England Members from a protective characteristic inspired to engage in leadership positions
How the grant works:
The grant will be available to applicants who are Table Tennis England members who will be using the grant to increase and/or retain participation in one or more of the following groups:
- Young people (up to 25 years old)
- People with disabilities
- People from an ethnic community
- Women and Girls
The grant particularly welcomes applications from members from one or more of the following groups:
- Aged between 16 and 30
- Identifies as a female
- Living with a disability or coaches individuals with a disability within table tennis
- An individual from either an ethnically diverse community or lower socio-economic group
Applications will be awarded on a rolling basis and will be reviewed by a panel using pre-set criteria. Applications will be considered for up to 50% of grant funding towards a programme, up to a maximum of £200.
Each applicant will need to demonstrate how receiving a grant will help to increase and/or retain the number of young people (age range up to U25) participating in the sport and/or increase equality in the sport – by increasing the number of women and girls, Disabled People or those from ethnically diverse communities participating.
Individuals will be permitted to make one application every two years. An annual summary of all funded programmes will be published and shared with Charlie’s family and Table Tennis England members.
The application panel will include England International and Generation 2 Club member Lois Peake, Table Tennis England Director Priya Samuel, and Coach and Education Manager Aled Howell.
If you wish to make a donation to the grant, you can do so through Paypal.
Umpires and referees who are selected to officiate abroad are able to apply for financial assistance towards their travelling expenses when cost is a factor that might otherwise have prevented them from attending. The application form ‘Tom Blunn Fund application for financial assistance’ should be completed and submitted to the Chairman of the Technical Officials’ Committee.
Those umpires and referees who are recognised by the Technical Officials’ Committee as being advanced international officials or actively working towards that status are able to apply for financial assistance for attending certain international events. This financial assistance is to enable those officials to maintain this advanced status or to work towards achieving such status. The terms of this support are detailed in the attached document ‘Financial Support for Travel to International Events’.
Find the documents and more information here.
Subsidised equipment
Affordable equipment for schools, community groups and workplaces is available from Table Tennis England through various programmes and schemes.
Subsidised table packages available for schools and youth clubs looking to develop table tennis in London and Essex.
Table Tennis England’s schools equipment packages are designed to help schools introduce table tennis or expand their existing provision and are affordable and flexible.
Table Tennis England’s Ping in the Community programme offers table tennis packages designed to help bring the members of your community closer together and inspire them to lead more active and sociable lifestyles, irrespective of ability or back ground.
Introduce table tennis into your workplace with a Loop at Work table package, designed to directly meet the health and wellbeing needs of employees.