Club Preparation Fund Launches Next Monday

Following on after the Pitch Maintainance Plan, the Football Foundation is launching its Club Preparation Fund next Monday.

The fund is worth £2.19M.

Who is eligible?

• Clubs and organisations that manage their own building and have a minimum 12 months security of tenure
• Grassroots football clubs (including Step 7)
• FA National League System clubs (from Steps 1 to 6)
• FA Women’s Pyramid clubs (Tier 1-5)
• County FAs
• Professional Club Community Trusts 
• Leisure Trusts (with an annual turnover of less than £500k) 
• Welsh Cymru Premier League clubs

Following recent guidance issued by The FA for restarting of football activity, eligible clubs and organisations will now be able to apply for a fixed £500 grant to make the necessary changes and modifications to allow them to reopen.
Successful applicants will need to spend Club Preparation funding on the three key areas:

• Keeping your clubhouse and equipment clean
• Maintaining social distancing and avoiding congestion 
• Promoting good hygiene. 

The type of work that this may include would be to provide:

• hand sanitiser dispensers 
• waste bins
• paper towel dispensers 
• signage and floor marking
• building repairs and modifications 
• carrying professional inspections or testing on water quality or gas and electric
• repairing hand basins and providing hot water
• installing safety screening and contactless payment systems.