Torch Trophy Trust: Awards and Bursaries
Overview
Torch Trophy Trust Bursaries
Torch Trophy Trust bursaries provide financial support to individuals or groups wishing to undertake training to enhance their knowledge or improve their coaching skills in order to assist their club, organisation or community to develop their chosen sport.
You can apply for one of the limited number of bursaries that are granted each year if you are:
- A voluntary provider.
- Seeking to improve a skill that will benefit the local community or group to which you are affiliated.
- Your governing body wishes to assist but cannot provide adequate funding for your chosen activity.
- Under 25 years old.
- Wishing to gain a Level One coaching qualification.
Bursaries range from £100-£500 and must not account for more than 50 per cent of the total costs of any course or activity.
Applications are encouraged from all parts of the UK and from all sports including those for people with a disability and young people. Any application must be supported by an official letter of endorsement from either a regional or national governing body. Applicants may be requested to supply evidence of a full reporting method to ensure a Bursary award would be used for the purpose intended. Successful applicants will be expected to provide the Trust with an update on the use of Bursary funding.
Torch Trophy Trust Awards
It is the Trust’s intention to recognise 20 volunteers for a Torch Trophy Trust Award every year. You must have the support of your relevant National Governing Body.
Who can be nominated?
- any outstanding volunteers in the world of sport and recreation who have received no national recognition
- an individual who has given up their time in a voluntary capacity for a number of years to enable others in the community to participate in their chosen activity
- a young person who is beginning to make a significant contribution to the grass roots of your organisation’s activities on a voluntary basis
For 2017 award winners see here