Active Partnerships

Registered charity 1144600 · since 2011activepartnerships.org·England·Updated 30 October 2026

Key takeaways

Active Partnerships is most relevant if your work helps people become more active, especially through health and care, children and young people, or local facilities, as its stated themes show.
Neither its annual report nor its register gives a grants total or a typical grant size, so there is no published guide to a realistic request; ask its contact what range would suit before you decide on an amount.
No application process is published, so the simplest first step is to use the contact shown on its website to check whether your project fits.
Its register records no grants to institutions for the latest year reported, so confirm its current grant-making with the charity before you plan around it.
No exclusions or eligibility rules are stated, so a quick look at its website is the best way to test your fit before ruling yourself out.

Overview

Active Partnerships is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1144600).

Active Partnerships is a charity registered in England and Wales that exists to make active lifestyles the norm for everyone. It works through a network of 42 local organisations, connecting local and national partners and taking a place-based approach to reducing inequalities. Its Multi-Sport Activity and Facilities Fund provides revenue and capital funding for multi-sport activity and small-scale capital investment in communities across England. It also ran Opening School Facilities, a £57 million, three-year initiative to help schools open their facilities to students and the local community.

What they fund

Priority Areas

Active Partnerships works to make active lifestyles the norm for everyone, connecting local and national stakeholders and using a place-based approach to reduce inequalities through its network of local organisations. Its stated focus areas include integrating physical activity pathways into health and care; increasing opportunities for children and young people to participate in sport, physical activity and movement in schools and communities; and connecting partners to create active environments. Its multi-sport programme provides revenue and capital funding for activity and small-scale facility investment in communities across England. It aims to help priority groups be active at local facilities and uses community engagement to shape opportunities around local needs.

Themes

Place-based inequality reduction
Physical activity and health
Children and young people
Active environments
Multi-sport activity and facilities

Geographic Focus

England.

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or its website. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

The fund aims to help priority groups be active at new and improved local facilities.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

England

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Active Partnerships.

Personal Best FoundationRollingGave £7,588 Together ActiveNo public processGave £77,912 Wembley Stadium FoundationFixed deadlinesGave £499k Sport BirminghamRolling Get Berkshire ActiveRolling Energize Shropshire, Telford & WrekinNo public processGave £36,174 The Hargreaves FoundationRollingGave £1.7M Yorkshire Sport FoundationNo public processGave £176k Mytime ActiveRolling Ormiston TrustNo public processGave £554k

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£864,558	£765,534	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£1,507,497	£1,465,207	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£2,417,410	£2,353,671	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£3,057,911	£2,731,056	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£3,489,051	£3,515,565	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.