The LGBT+ Fund: Get Active Fund provides support for community-based LGBT+ sports and physical activity organisations and projects across the UK. The fund aims to increase resources available to groups that are under-recognised by funding initiatives and improve access to physical activity for LGBT+ communities.
The fund will prioritise grassroots organisations supporting LGBT+ people who face additional barriers to participation. It recognises that LGBT+ individuals can experience social and systemic barriers that may reduce participation in physical activities, including within settings intended to be inclusive.
For the purposes of the fund, physical activity is defined as activity that intentionally and explicitly facilitates increased physical movement and wellbeing. Eligible activities may include hiking, skateboarding, football, ballroom and vogue, gardening, frisbee, dance and circus skills.
Value Notes
A total of £400,000 is available to be awarded across a range of organisations and groups.
In 2026, grants of between £5,000 and £25,000 per year are available for projects lasting one or two years. Applicants can request:
- One-year grants: £5,000 to £25,000 in total.
- Two-year grants: £10,000 to £50,000 in total.
Who Can Apply
Applicants must meet all of the following requirements:
- Be a UK-based LGBT+ led non-profit group or organisation that is led by and for LGBT+ people.
- Regularly deliver sports or physical activities, either as an LGBT+ sports or physical activity organisation or as an LGBT+ organisation delivering projects focused on sport or physical activity. Sports or physical activity projects delivered within the last three years are considered recent.
- Have been running for at least six months.
For the purposes of the fund, physical activity means activity that intentionally and explicitly facilitates increased physical movement and wellbeing. Examples include hiking, skateboarding, football, ballroom and vogue, gardening, frisbee, dance and circus skills.
The fund will prioritise organisations and projects supporting underserved intersectional LGBT+ communities, including D/deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent LGBT+ people, LGBT+ women, LGBT+ people of faith, LGBT+ people of the global majority, older LGBT+ people and trans, non-binary and/or intersex people.
Priority will also be given to organisations and projects that:
- Are based in historically underfunded areas of the LGBT+ sector, including the North-East, East and South-West of England and the Devolved Nations.
- Operate in areas with limited provision for LGBT+ communities, including rural and remote areas.
- Support intersectional or multiply marginalised LGBT+ communities facing multiple forms of discrimination.
Restrictions
Funding cannot support:
- Brand new organisations or projects that have been delivering sports or physical activity work for less than six months.
- Multiple applications from the same organisation or group.
- Organisations with fewer than two unrelated trustees, directors or management committee members.
- Individuals applying independently rather than on behalf of an LGBT+ organisation.
- Statutory organisations, including local authorities and schools.
- NHS bodies.
- Organisations that cannot demonstrate that they operate in an inclusive and non-discriminatory way.
- Organisations based outside the UK.
- Activities taking place outside the UK.
- Standalone or large capital purchases, although kit and equipment are eligible. Larger equipment or items may also be considered where required for disability accessibility.
- Research.
- Political groups.
- Work that promotes religion, including evangelising or proselytising.
- Applications made with the intention of distributing the grant to a third party.
- Retrospective costs, including costs incurred before a grant is received and repayment of loans.
- Work that duplicates existing local or thematic provision.
- Organisations currently or previously in receipt of a Consortium grant that have a history of non-compliance with grant conditions.
Eligible Expenditure
Funding can support:
- Project and activity costs, including venue hire, refreshments, volunteer expenses and kit or equipment hire or purchase.
- Training or activity costs for participants who would otherwise struggle to attend.
- Defined accessibility measures that increase access to activities.
- Core or running costs, including staff salaries, building rent, utilities, administration and training and development costs.
- Collaborative work between LGBT+ sports and physical activity groups.
- Coaching qualifications and courses for group members to develop skills and experience.
Applicants requesting core or running costs, including salaries and overheads, must be able to demonstrate how these costs will enable delivery of the intended funding outcomes.
How To Apply
The deadline for applications is 4 November 2026 (12:00).
Applications are made online.
More information is available at the LGBT+ Fund website.