Funding routes
Paying for pitch work
Maintenance costs money even when the labour is free. This hub explains where grassroots clubs can look for help, what this archive can honestly tell you, and where the actual applications happen.
- Grass Pitch Maintenance Fund
What the Football Foundation’s fund is for, the kinds of work it supports, and why every current criterion must be checked on the Foundation’s own pages.
- PitchPower walkthrough
Preparing for the pitch assessment that funding conversations usually start from.
The honest frame
This archive is independent of every funding body. It holds no application forms, awards nothing and cannot check eligibility. What it can do is explain the landscape in plain English, dated to when it was checked, so a volunteer arrives at the Foundation’s pages knowing what they are looking at. Criteria, amounts and deadlines change; the pages here deliberately do not repeat numbers that can go stale.
The strongest funding asset a club controls is its own evidence: a dated record of work done and problems observed. The maintenance log builder and cost planner exist partly for this.
Time-sensitive by nature
Everything under this hub is time-sensitive guidance: checked 2026-08-27, current versions always on the Football Foundation’s linked pages.