Funding programmes
Energy Efficient Venues
Improving energy efficiency in community venues across Northern Ireland.
Healthy Families: Way of Life
This fund promoted healthy active lifestyles among children under 12.
Improving Community Buildings
This fund was a one-off capital refurbishment and modernisation programme to increase the use of community venues across Northern Ireland.
Advice Services Fund
This programme aimed to enable not-for-profit advice organisations to continue providing free services to people in their communities in England.
Advice Services Transition Fund
Funding for local not-for-profit providers of advice services in England to continue giving vital help to people and communities.
Live and Learn
This fund supported organisations to make a difference to Northern Ireland’s most disadvantaged communities.
Better by Design
Better by Design offered free, intensive, expert and bespoke support for organisations that want to take part in service redesign of their work.
Local Papers
This fund joined forces with eight local newspapers across England to award a huge £250,000 of Lottery good-cause cash to community projects in each area.
Next Steps
This was a £6m fund to develop or pilot social investment vehicles that improve lives and test innovative financial models for communities most in need.
People and Places: Addressing the economic downturn
This fund supported projects that revitalised communities by giving people improved access to support services.