Resources: Funding focus - Football Foundation

It has a range of schemes from stadium improvement grants to 400 kit vouchers for junior sides and a community and education scheme.

Who can apply? There are many different categories, but youth groups may be most interested in the community and education scheme designed to promote football "as a tool to increase education attainment, promote social inclusion and challenge social nuisance". Any not-for-profit organisation or local authority can apply.

What will it support? The community scheme will fund development posts, equipment and facilities, learning centres and social inclusion projects.

But this scheme won't fund buying vehicles, IT equipment, education resources, one-off tournaments and festivals or projects delivered in curriculum time. The foundation will be looking for sustainable partnership projects with a strong community focus and funding of up to 250,000 over five years is available. A small grants programme also operates under the community scheme, which encourages applications from youth clubs and community groups keen to recruit and train volunteers to expand grass-roots football. The limit is 9,000.