Funding programmes
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.
Mental Health Matters
This fund supports organistions to promote the rehabilitation and independence of people with serious mental health problems.
BIG Innovation
BIG Innovation supported projects that tested new ways of tackling emerging and existing social problems.
Mentro Allan
This fund aimed to make the parks, waterways, coastal environments and countryside of Wales accessible.
Millennium Now
Developed together with Channel 4, public involvement was at the forefront of this programme. Five charities received £25000 for their project idea.
myplace
The fund supported the development of youth centres across England.
BIG Local
The programme helped people make their communities better places to live in, then and in the future.
Big Society Investment Fund
This programme channelled investments from dormant accounts to good causes.