# British Cycling Foundation

- Type: Trust / foundation
- Charity number: 1214450 (https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/1214450)
- Company number: 16121611
- What it funds: General charitable purposes, Education / training, Disability, Prevention or relief of poverty, Amateur sport, Economic / community development / employment, Other charitable purposes
- Who it helps: The general public
- How it gives: Makes grants to individuals, Makes grants to organisations, Provides services, Provides advocacy / advice / information
- Area of operation: Throughout England and Wales
- Trustees: 7
- Last verified: 2026-11-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Canonical URL: https://opengrant.co.uk/funders/british-cycling-foundation

To promote community participation in healthy recreation through the provision of facilities for cycling and other activities capable of improving health.To provide relief and assistance to people in need by making grants that fund or support their access to cycling.To relieve poverty, financial hardship or distress among cyclists through the provision of grants, loans or other assistance.

## Open and forthcoming schemes (0)

None in OpenGrant's sources right now.

## Charitable objects

> The charity's objects (objects) are specifically restricted to the following charitable purposes for the public benefit in the United Kingdom and elsewhere:3.1 to promote community participation in healthy recreation in particular by providing or assisting in the provision of facilities for participation in Cycling and other activities capable of improving health (and in this article facilities means land, buildings, equipment and organising sporting activity);3.2 to provide relief and assistance to people in need by means of ill-health, disability, or social and economic circumstances in particular by making grants that fund or support their access to and participation in Cycling;3.3 to relieve from (or prevent) poverty, financial hardship or distress among current or former cyclists in need (or at risk of falling into need) together with their dependants in particular by providing or assisting in the provision of grants, loans or other forms of assistance.in article 3.3:(a) “cyclist” shall refer to any individual who has ever:(i) Represented, or been selected to represent, any country or nation in the sport of Cycling at the olympic games, the paralympic games, youth olympic games, the Commonwealth games, the Commonwealth youth games or any international race, competition or event organized by the union cycliste internationale, the union européenne de cyclisme or the British Cycling federation; or(ii) participated in any tour, race, competition or event in the sport of…

## What it funds

British Cycling Foundation is registered under the Charity Commission purposes education / training, disability, prevention or relief of poverty, amateur sport and economic / community development / employment for the general public and other defined groups; the register records that it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations, provides services and provides advocacy / advice / information.

The Charity Commission register lists its area of operation as England and Wales.

## How to apply

OpenGrant has not found an open scheme from British Cycling Foundation in its sources (last checked 5 Nov 2026). It may fund by invitation only, or through programmes that OpenGrant's sources do not cover. OpenGrant does not take applications; always check the funder's own guidance.

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