Hampshire & IOW Tennis

Hampshire & IOW Tennis is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1204620).

Hampshire & IOW Tennis is a charity whose object is to promote community participation in healthy recreation, in particular but not exclusively through the development, promotion and support of tennis and padel in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. It exists for the benefit of the inhabitants of that county and island. It makes grants of up to £5,000 per project, and it also makes loans.

Priority Areas

Hampshire & IOW Tennis provides grants and loans to organisations that help deliver its charitable purpose of promoting community participation in healthy recreation through tennis and padel. Grant applicants include LTA-registered venues and LTA-accredited coaches in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, as well as third-party organisations such as local authorities, leisure centres and schools when projects share its charitable objective. Projects should have a charitable purpose, be available to the wider community and provide public benefit. The foundation prioritises proposals that grow tennis or padel participation, expand inclusive and accessible tennis opportunities, keep people active who might otherwise lapse, or increase regular activity. It also seeks to increase participation among targeted groups, including disabled people and people facing social or economic disadvantage.

Themes

• Tennis participation
• Padel participation
• Inclusive tennis
• Disability inclusion
• Social inclusion

Geographic Focus

Hampshire; IOW.

Applicants email supporting documentation within seven days after submitting the form.

Who can apply:

• Grants are made to organisations that can develop projects providing a public benefit. Recipients of grant funding generally need to be either an LTA-Registered tennis venue or an LTA-Accredited tennis coach.
• Loans are only available for capital projects. HIOWT can only provide loans to incorporated bodies, or to partnerships of 4 or more people.

Applying again: Rejected applications may be re-submissible with suggested amendments.

What the charity says:

• Projects should have a charitable purpose, be available to the wider community and provide public benefit.
• Projects that increase tennis or padel participation are among the proposals it considers.
• Projects that increase inclusive and accessible tennis opportunities for the local community are among the proposals it considers.
• Projects that keep people active who might otherwise lapse are among the proposals it considers.
• Projects that increase the number of times people are regularly active are among the proposals it considers.
• Greater demonstrable public benefit and closer alignment with its charitable objectives and strategy support a higher proportion of grant funding.
• Projects with partnership funding may be viewed more favourably.
• Applicants are asked to disclose other funding organisations they have approached, even unsuccessfully.