Funding programmes
Investing in Communities: Supporting 21st Century Life
This fund supported projects that build stronger families and stronger communities.
Keeping the Spirit of 2012 Alive
Extending the positive impact of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Life Skills Project
This fund supported organisations delivering services that will support targeted groups of economically inactive people.
Becoming a Survivor
£8 million investment in Scotland to support people affected by domestic abuse and survivors of domestic abuse.
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.
Better Off
The Better Off programme developed new kinds of community rehabilitation for people who misuse or have misused drugs.
Local Sustainability Fund
Delivered on behalf of the Office for Civil Society, this Fund aimed to help medium sized organisations to be more sustainable by transforming their operating models.
BIG Innovation
BIG Innovation supported projects that tested new ways of tackling emerging and existing social problems.