Peter Harrison Foundation: Active Lives

The Peter Harrison Foundation: Active Lives programme provides grants of £5,000 - £30,000 for organisations using participation in grassroots sport/physical activity as a catalyst to develop personal and life skills, assisting individuals in discovering and fulfilling their potential

All applications to Active Lives must:

• Offer high-impact, life-enhancing opportunities for those who live in the top 40% of areas of deprivation (IMD deciles 1-4)
  and / or
• Remove barriers to participation for people with disabilities, especially those living in the most deprived areas (as defined by IMD)

Applications must also:

• Focus on grassroots involvement rather than elite participation in physical activity
• Focus on skills development and confidence building for individuals
• Incorporate effective strategies for wider impact, perhaps through training, partnerships and/or dissemination activities
• Demonstrate a high degree of beneficiary involvement across the organisation and those with lived experience 

Funding priorities
Applications which evidence that they meet the funding priorities below will have the best chance of being successful.

• Meet income level priorities
• Focus on deprivation  
• Are experienced
• Provide high impact opportunities
• Prioritise grassroots and community engagement 
• Demand excellence   
• Have an entrepreneurial mind set  
• Work with integrity   
• Strive for sustainability   

Your project / activity must:

• Take place in the UK
• Provide opportunities for personal or skills development through participation in physical activity
• Meet the needs of people who are living with disabilities and / or living in the most deprived areas

Your organisation must:

• Be either a registered charity or a registered CASC (Community Amateur Sports Club) 
• Have been registered with the charity regulator for two years or more (charity applicants) 
• Have been registered as a CASC for two years or more (CASC applicants) 
• Have produced independently examined or audited accounts for at least one full year of operation

Application deadlines:  

• 1 January    
• 1 April    
• 1 July    
• 1 October