Projects We Support We typically make grants of between £100 and £300 to clubs, teams or individuals. A larger donation might be considered in exceptional circumstances.Any donation should have a significant impact in its own right, and should not be part of a club's wider fund-raising activities. The following are examples of what the fund can be used to support:  a contribution to ground hire for a team wanting to play its inaugural match equipment for a team or player who may otherwise be unable to take part initiatives that will directly help to widen social access to adult friendly cricket training courses for aspiring ground-staff in how to prepare a cricket pitch an honorarium to recognise the contributions that a particular individual has made in running their cricketclub at financial cost to themselves. This could include umpires and tea-makers. No club, team or individual may receive more than one donation in a calendar year. Three Grants of up to £1,000 available In 2025 the Googly Fund is expanding its funding, offering three grants of up to £1,000 to promote adult friendly cricket in the UK and Ireland. We are looking for bids from cricket clubs who may want to start a social Saturday, Sunday or midweek team, who might want to open up their facilities to other friendly teams, or encourage new players into or back to the sport with an open day.  We will also offer at least one grant of up to £1,000 to support starting a primary school parents' team, match or league, along the lines of the successful initiatives started in south London and Bristol. These special grants are on top of our normal grants of up to £300. These could be used to buy a bag of kit or piece of equipment for a friendly team, train a groundskeeper or help bring a ground back into use, or hire a pitch or pay for the teas for an inaugural game. It could be men's, women's or disability cricket. Softball, hardball, six-a-side or eleven-a-side. As long as it's about expanding adult-friendly cricket and getting more people playing the great game, we'll consider funding it. All you have to do is get in touch via info@googlyfund.co.uk with your idea and how much money you think you might need by the end of March 2025. If we need more information we'll let you know, with winning bids to be confirmed by Monday April 4 in time for the summer season. To note: there are three grants available of up to £1,000 each grants will need to be accounted for by item and may only be paid in full on completion of a successful event at least one grant will be reserved for a primary school parents' initiative. While we generally avoid funding competitive league cricket clubs as our focus is on adult friendly cricket, these special grants will be available to league clubs looking to expand their social, non-competitive cricket offering. Follow Us On Bluesky For updates about projects that we are supporting, please follow us on Bluesky @googlyfund (we will also remain on Twitter for the time being @googlyfund). |
