Explore grants, create application drafts and find local businesses to approach for sponsorship. Plan fundraising events, prepare a donation appeal and track your progress towards your club’s goal—all in one place.
Find a grant and prepare your draft here. When it is ready, copy your answers and submit them on the funder’s own website. Your work saves in this browser; this app does not send applications to funders.
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Your club details, drafts, event plans and saved contact details stay in this browser at this website address. There is no account or automatic transfer to another phone. Use Backup / Restore to save a copy to Files.
Grant search sends your postcode district, funding target and sport to the app’s search service. The service checks the district using postcodes.io. Your club name, drafts and saved contacts are not sent in that search.
Opening a funder, business listing or donation link takes you to another website. Fund The Shirt does not take donations or submit applications.
Start with a postcode and target. The sport and project details help you explore relevant options.
Sport-specific grants appear only when appropriate. General sports funding stays visible to everyone.
Add the people behind your club to personalise your funding and donation drafts. You can leave any of these blank.
Choose the age group of your players or members. For more than one group, choose Mixed age groups. Count coaches and helpers separately above.
Write your own or create an editable draft from the details above. This is optional.
Review and edit before using it. Creating another draft replaces this description; other drafts you have edited are kept.
This brings relevant grants to the top. Other funding options remain visible; check what each fund will actually pay for.
Used in your application draft. You can leave it blank.
Search to explore grants and published funding amounts. You can plan your funding mix afterwards.
Your targets and recorded totals are in Funding Plan. You can revisit them at any time.
A starting list for your area and sport. Amounts and application status reflect the date shown on each card, not a live update. Open the official source to check current rules, deadlines and eligible costs before applying.
Official funding pages to explore. These links are not individual grants or confirmed matches.
Use your club details and chosen grant to create an editable first draft. Review it, add your budget and supporting details, then complete the application on the funder’s website.
This fund is for football clubs. Choose another fund in Funding Radar for your selected sport.
These details come from Funding Radar and help personalise your draft.
Optional: add a brief introduction about your members, coaches and helpers to your next draft.
Choose a writing style and length, then tap Generate First Draft. You can edit the result below.
Your draft is saved in this browser. It has not been sent to the funder. To apply, use the funder’s own website.
Set optional targets for grants, sponsorship, events and donations, and see your overall progress.
See the support you have recorded and choose how you hope to reach your goal through grants, sponsorship, events and donations. Your targets can change as your plans take shape.
Return here as support is confirmed and money comes in. Leave the figures at £0 until you have something to record.
Choose how you hope to reach your club’s overall target. You can leave these suggested amounts for now and return to change them after exploring grants and other support.
The amounts below are suggested targets, not grant offers or money already raised. They do not restrict the grants shown.
Explore businesses near your club and keep track of potential sponsors.
Explore businesses near your club, prepare your approach and keep track of conversations. Record agreed sponsorship so you can see how it contributes to your funding goal.
Choose a business type to see current local listings on Google Maps. Results open in a new tab; check each business’s location and contact details before approaching them. Listings are suggestions, not sponsors of your club.
Use your club postcode in Funding Radar to find local businesses.
Found someone promising? Add their name and an optional listing link here. You can update your progress after contacting them.
Only amounts you mark as confirmed count here. The suggested target comes from Funding Plan.
A planning goal, not money promised. Ask businesses what level of support works for them and agree any recognition together.
Choose an event or create your own. Plan the income, costs, providers and jobs, then record what you actually raised after costs.
Choose an event to build its plan.
Create an appeal from your club and project details. Add your donation-page link, make a QR code to share and record donations as they come in.
Enter the cumulative amount shown by your payment provider. The QR code cannot check payments automatically. Do not include donations already entered as event income.
Write your campaign message below. If your club already has a page where people can donate, copy its sharing link into the box. We turn that link into a QR code you can put on a poster or share with supporters. Scanning it opens your club’s donation page.
Fund The Shirt creates the message and QR code; donations are made on your club’s chosen payment page. You can save your message now and add a link later.
Tap the message to change anything you like. Your edits save automatically on this device.
Open the page you use to collect donations, tap Share or Copy link, then paste its full web address here. It should start with https://. If you do not have a donation page yet, leave this blank.
Open the link below or scan the QR code with another phone to check it goes to the right donation page before sharing.
Check the donation page ↗Your campaign is saved on this device. Save a copy of your full funding plan to Files so you can restore it on a new app version or phone.
Keep your progress on this device and download a backup copy. Use your backup to carry your saved plan to another device or a new app address.
Your completed steps and edits save in this browser at this website address. You can close the page and come back to the same address.
A different Vercel link or another phone will not show this plan until you restore a backup.
Tap below, then choose Save to Files in the iPhone share sheet. Check that the backup file appears in Files before switching versions.
The copy may contain contact details. Keep it private.
Choose your saved backup from Files. We’ll show you its details before you replace the plan on this website address.
Restoring replaces this address’s current plan. Save a copy of it first if you need to keep it.
This deletes the club details, drafts and plans stored by Fund The Shirt in this browser at this website address. Save a backup first if you want to keep a copy.