# Grants available for Kent projects offering healthy recreational activities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/01/18/grants-available-kent-projects-offering-healthy-recreational-activities/
- Published: 2021-01-18T09:02:31+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Funding is now available for charitable projects delivering healthy recreational
activities for people living in the Kent borough of Ashford.**

The [Ashford Leisure Trust Fund](http://www.kentcf.org.uk/funding) will award grants
of **up to £10,000**, and possibly more for exceptional applications, to support
sports clubs, community groups or charities in the borough of Ashford that offer
indoor or outdoor activities that increase physical well-being and bring people 
together in positive community-based activities.

The Fund is looking to award grants to recreational activities that engage people
to mobilise, either as individuals or in a group or team. This could include activities
such as dance, walking groups, table tennis, martial arts, golf, archery, chair 
exercise, bowling, sport, athletics, and exercise, including Yoga, Pilates and Zumba.
The activities that will be considered for a grant can be targeted at any age group
and any sector of the population.

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The Ashford Leisure Trust Fund will consider funding yoga projects.

Linda Dodds, Chair of Ashford Leisure Trust, said:

> “The Trustees are very pleased to be teaming up with Kent Community Foundation
> to distribute grants to groups and organisations throughout Ashford. We hope that
> the grants will make a tangible difference to local people’s health and wellbeing,
> and we look forward to receiving applications.”

Natalie Smith, Director of Grants and Impact, Kent Community Foundation, said:

> “The absolute priority of the new [Ashford Leisure Trust Fund](http://www.kentcf.org.uk/funding)
> is to support projects for those who do not currently engage in positive recreational
> activities, perhaps because of lack of opportunity, confidence or finance, to 
> get active. The geographical area for organisations wanting to apply encompasses
> the whole of Ashford, from Chilham in the north to Hamstreet in the south, and
> from Monks Horton in the east to Biddenden in the west. The grants of up to £10,000
> can be used to cover project delivery costs including activity costs, small capital
> costs like equipment upgrades, as well as staff and volunteer costs.”

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