Funding4Tennis services are delivered by Steve Goswell, a County Veteran Tennis player who has raised over a million pounds in grants for tennis clubs in and around Cambridgeshire.
Steve has expertise and many years’ experience of sourcing funding for a wider range of tennis projects, including:
Grants for lawn tennis
Grants for new tennis courts
Grants for court resurfacing
Grants for floodlights
Grants for clubhouses
Grants for coaching and equipment
Grants for gate access technology
Grants for padel tennis
Background
Steve has been a keen sportsman all his life but did not start playing Tennis till he was in his forties. He became a tennis coach and went on to be senior coach and coaching coordinator at Cambridge LTC.
The Cambridge Club was struggling at that time and had low membership numbers. It needed funding for court resurfacing as well as clubhouse and car park improvements. Steve started to apply for grants from various organisations which resulted in over £150,000 in grants for coaching programmes; resurfacing two courts; draining and resurfacing a large car park; and a major upgrade to the Clubhouse. The grants he secured were instrumental in transforming Cambridge Lawn Tennis Club’s facilities and activities.
Since then Steve has worked with clubs and Councils across the East of England to secure grant funds that have transformed their facilities and activities. These in turn have helped make tennis a financially viable sport for those who own and manage courts and clubs – even in small villages – giving them a strong basis on which to build for the future.
The Cambridgeshire Fund
Steve’s original idea to set up a fund to support tennis facility development by requesting an initial contribution from both Cambridgeshire LTA and the LTA was realized in late 2015. £100,000 was contributed by County and £100,000 by national LTA. The scheme, entitled ‘The Cambridgeshire Fund,’ ran for five years.
Over this period this £200,000 was more than matched by third party grants – as well as fund raised by the clubs themselves. By late 2019 a total of over £570,000 had been invested in facilities projects within Cambridgeshire tennis, £370,000 of this from third party grants.
What people say about Steve
Steve Goswell has built up a huge amount of expertise in the identification of grants available to improve and develop tennis facilities as well as to grow membership. He has also written many grant applications and has a high success rate. A substantial number of tennis clubs in Cambridgeshire have benefitted from Steve’s invaluable assistance without which their projects would not have been possible.
Mark Sanders, Cambridgeshire LTA Councillor
Steve Goswell has opened our eyes to a host of funding opportunities for Tennis Clubs and has done outstanding work in Cambridgeshire. Cambridgeshire LTA fully support his work.
Richard Barnes, former LTA Councillor and former Chair of Cambridgeshire LTA
Steve was the most important link in the development plans of Cambridge Lawn Tennis Club, without which we wouldn’t have had the money to move forward. When he started work with us our coaching programme had to be rebuilt and we needed to resurface two courts, completely resurface a large car park and our Clubhouse was overdue for a major upgrade. His ability to find funding partners and his persistence at securing the cash for all of our projects was nothing short of a miracle, and the vibrant club we have today is testimony to the value of all his amazing work.
Liz Hill, Former Chair, Cambridge Lawn Tennis Club
What Cambridgeshire LTA says about Steve
Grant funding and application service. Cambridgeshire Tennis funds the services of specialist grant finder – Steve Goswell. Steve is a County Veteran Tennis player who has raised over £700,000 pounds in grants for tennis clubs in Cambridgeshire. If you’re looking for funding for facility or revenue projects, please contact us and we can put you in touch with Steve. For approved projects, the County will pay for the fundraising costs. To date, Steve has helped clubs with grants to build new courts, resurface existing courts, provide new floodlights, replace existing floodlights with LED, build new and upgrade existing clubhouses, provide disabled access and provide funds for coaching projects and equipment for clubs wanting to increase membership. Steve will give written advice on funding and will write funding applications for your club.
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