Grant News
Grants are available for community, sports and youth groups to run events during Festival Fortnight, Scotland’s LGBTIQ+ sports festival which aims to increase the visibility and participation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people in Scottish sport.
The funding is made available by LEAP Sports through their Festival Fortnight Small Grants programme to help cover the cost of a wide variety of events at the festival in June 2023.
Three types of financial support are available:
- Up to £100 for youth groups;
- Up to £250 for sport and community groups;
- Up to £500 for sport and community groups running a national LGBTIQ+ open tournament, with the premise that this will become an annual Festival Fortnight event.
This could include a sports day or tournament, a cultural event such as a film night, health and wellbeing activities, yoga sessions, a pool party, or football taster session.
LEAP Sports will be running two Grants Information Sessions on Thursday 23rd March, 6pm, and Wednesday 12th April, 6:30pm. This is to help groups and individuals with the application questions and idea generation for events. Potential applicants can sign-up to the March session HERE or the April session HERE.
Applications will be assessed on a fortnightly basis until the 27th April 2023.