Welcome to FundSport.com

On September 17, 2011

Why We Started FundSport.com

In the UK alone there are around two million sports volunteers and an estimated 140,000 amateur sports clubs. These clubs and organisations often play a massive part in their local communities up and down the country.

Grass roots clubs are often where most sport enthusiasts spark their passion and begin their playing days. Some go on to become professionals, but for the vast majority of us, our playing days will begin and end at the grass roots level.

Involvement in sport doesn’t just help people to keep fit and active, it teaches you about life, communication, team work and can help young people to develop skills that will be invaluable throughout life.

Almost daily, we read stories of multi-million pound contracts and sponsorships in professional sport, but at the grass roots level funding can be a lot harder to come by. Grass roots clubs and athletes of all levels need to raise sponsorship to keep themselves or their teams running. Although, for some clubs the main issue may not be funding, it could be attracting members, finding facilities or managing finances. We’ve started FundSport.com to provide everyone involved in grass roots, amateur and community sports with a place to come to for advice on all of these issues.

What we aim to achieve

Grass roots is the heart and soul of sport in every country, not just the UK, and whatever happens at the grass roots level will have a direct affect on professional sports. For example; All of Britain’s Olympians and Paralympians started at grass roots clubs.

We aim to help grass roots sports teams, athletes and coaches be the best they can be. In order to do this we are dedicated to providing the best possible advice and giving everyone connected with grass roots, amatuer and community sports a place they can not only turn to for help and advice, but also a place they come together to discuss the key issues affecting sport.

There are three main ways we aim to helps sports clubs and athletes;

• Fundraising: Sports funding advice and fundraising ideas
• Sponsorship: Free expert advice on sponsorship and making your club or yourself more sponsor friendly
• Grants: Our grants and funding section allows you to easily search and find grant opportunities in the UK.

We also have free expert advice on a number of other topics including; PR & Marketing, Club Management and Social Media.

Stay Connected to FundSport.com

There are plenty of ways you can stay connected to and get in touch with FundSport.com:

Facebook and Twitter: We’ll regularly update our Facebook and Twitter pages with the latest news, views and advice from FundSport.com. Both are also a great way to interact with us and let us know your thoughts.

• Like our Facebook page
• Follow @FundSport on Twitter
• Follow FundSport.com Co-Founder Ash Read on Twitter

FS+: Sign up for FS+ and receive our exclusive free email newsletter featuring all the latest news, views and advice from FundSport.com.

Get in touch: You can get in touch with us via Facebook and Twitter. But, if you’d like to send us an email, you can do so via the contact us page. Feel free to email us anything grass roots sports related, whether it’s something you feel we could feature on the site, something you’d like some help with, an idea for website content or if you just want to reach out and say ‘Hi’ – we’d love to hear from you.

First Impressions

As the title suggests, this post is a short introduction to FundSport.com; what we’re about, our aims and how we can help. Now, we’d like to hear from you; what are your first impressions of the website? What content would you like to see?

Please let us know your thoughts in the comments below.