One Family Foundation Community Awards are currently open and will be awarding 16 grants of £5,000 and four awards of £25,000 to community groups, clubs and voluntary organisations across the UK.

The last round was a tremendous success with nearly 300 projects applying. Some of the winners in the last round included a couple of football clubs from Somerset who came together to apply for funding and won £5,000 to create a sheltered area at their football ground for spectators.

To view a clip of some of the recent winners click here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DORlarqHEHw

There are Cumbria RFU rugby and further a field leagues in place for each age group to join and play regular games and competitive rugby against other like minded clubs ,ensuring that all players will participate in competitive but enjoyable rugby

Projects need to be nominated by one of their 2.5 million customers. If groups don’t know one then they can post details in their forum and their customers can discover them and look to get involved. Their forum can be found here – http://goo.gl/BTBn2X.

The key dates for the next round are as follow:

Nominations open 1st September 10 am – 29th September 9am

Voting open 6th October 10 am – 3rd November midday

Winners announced w/c 9th November

To find out more click here; http://goo.gl/rgrg22