Funding programmes
Funding, Funding programmes
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National Lottery Awards for All England
A quick and simple way to get small National Lottery grants of between £300 and £10,000.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £300 to £10,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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National Lottery Awards for All Wales
National Lottery Awards for All offers funding from £300 to £10,000 to support what matters to people and communities.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £300 to £10,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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National Lottery Awards for All Scotland
A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £10,000.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £300 to £10,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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National Lottery Awards for All Northern Ireland
A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £10,000.
- Area
- Northern Ireland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £300 to £10,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Reaching Communities England
Flexible funding over £10,000 for up to five years to organisations in England who want to take action on the issues that matter to people and communities.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Total available
- £190m this financial year
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Partnerships
Through our Partnerships funding, we make grants over £10,000 for organisations which work together with a shared set of goals and values.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Total available
- £40m this financial year
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Young Start
Helping young people aged eight to 24 to become more confident and play an active part in realising their potential.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £10,000 to £100,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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People and Places: Medium grants
Funding capital and revenue community projects from £10,001 to £100,000.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £10,001 to £100,000
- Total available
- Up to £15 million each year through both strands of the People and Places programmes
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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People and Places: Large grants
Funding capital and revenue community projects from £100,001 to £500,000.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £100,001 to £500,000
- Total available
- Up to £15 million each year through both strands of the People and Places programme
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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People and Communities
Supporting positive change in the community. The People and Communities programme is designed to support you to work with local people to bring about positive changes in your community. A community could be a geographical area or a community of interest.
- Area
- Northern Ireland
- Funding size
- £10,000 to £500,000
- Total available
- £57 million
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Empowering Young People
Empowering Young People is a grants programme designed to support projects in Northern Ireland that give young people aged 8 to 25 the ability to overcome the challenges they face.
- Area
- Northern Ireland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £10,000 to £500,000
- Application deadline
31 March 2021
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Grants for community-led activity
Medium grants for community-led activity.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £10,000 to £150,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Grants for improving lives
Grants from £10,000 to £500,000 to help people facing challenging circumstances
- Area
- Scotland
- Funding size
- £10,000 to £500,000
- Total available
- £500,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Scottish Land Fund
Supporting urban and rural communities to become more resilient and sustainable through the ownership and management of land and land assets.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £10,000 to £1,000,000
- Total available
- £10 million in 2017-18
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Great Ideas
Great Ideas is designed to support great ideas that don’t necessarily involve people at every stage but if implemented would contribute to putting people in the lead.
- Area
- Northern Ireland
- Funding size
- £10,000 to £500,000
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Safeguarding Training Fund - Phase 2
The Safeguarding Training Fund is a jointly funded programme developed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and The National Lottery Community Fund (The Fund). It will provide funding over two phases until March 2022.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations
- Funding size
- In the region of £50,000 to £115,000
- Application deadline
No further applications are being accepted.
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Rural Programme
The Rural Programme (round two) funds projects that create positive change for those living in poverty in rural Wales.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Social enterprises, Statutory organisations
- Funding size
- Up to £500,000 (revenue & capital)
- Total available
- £4 million
- Application deadline
12:00pm noon on 1 October 2019*
*round one has closed
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Community Assets
Grants from £10,000 to £1 million to create strong and resilient communities through assets.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £10,000 to £1,000,000
- Application deadline
4 October 2019
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Supporting great ideas
Through our Supporting great ideas funding we make grants to support innovative and strategically important project ideas that encourage positive social change in Wales.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Voluntary/community organisations and statutory bodies
- Total available
- £1.5 million this financial year
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Forces in Mind
Supporting the psychological wellbeing and successful and sustainable transition of veterans and their families into civilian life.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Total available
- £35 million
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Awards from the UK Portfolio
The UK Portfolio supports UK-wide ideas and projects. It tests and grows bold ideas that put people in the lead to address long-term social issues and to improve the quality of life across the UK and internationally. Please note, this funding stream is currently paused.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Application deadline
Applications currently paused
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Digital Fund
The Digital Fund is a new UK wide £15 million funding programme to support charities and community organisations. It is about helping the charity and voluntary sector to use digital tools and approaches to support people and communities to thrive.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Application deadline
Applications initially open on 22nd October 2018 and close on 3rd December 2018.
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Youth Capacity Fund
The Government has directed The National Lottery Community Fund to invest up to £1.2 million from dormant bank and building society accounts in England, to develop the capacity of local, frontline grassroots organisations who help young people facing barriers to work.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Small voluntary or community / grassroots groups
- Funding size
- Up to £50,000 for groups in Birmingham, Bradford, Barking & Dagenham
- Total available
- £1.2 million
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Coastal Communities Fund
Promoting sustainable economic growth and jobs in coastal communities.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations, Private sector organisations
- Funding size
- £50,000 to £300,000
- Application deadline
Round 5 is now closed.
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The People’s Projects
A UK-wide public vote, which gives National Lottery players and the public a say in where National Lottery funding goes. It is a chance for organisations across the UK to receive further National Lottery funding.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Funding size
- up to £50,000
- Total available
- £3 million
- Application deadline
Invite only
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Our Place
Helping communities in Scotland come together to find and develop ways in which they can make a difference.
- Area
- Scotland
- Funding size
- £10,000 to £1,000,000
- Total available
- £12 million
- Application deadline
Ongoing up to summer 2018
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#iwill Fund
The #iwill Fund will enable more young people to take part in social action through high quality opportunities which create lifelong habits.
- Area
- England
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Mayor’s Community Weekend
On the weekend of Saturday 29 June and Sunday 30 June 2019, events will be taking place across the West Midlands to celebrate the Mayor’s Community Weekend. The aim of this is to celebrate diversity and bring people together – we want to encourage people to go out, engage in their local communities and increase social interaction.
- Area
- England
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Other National Lottery Funders
If none of the current The National Lottery Community Fund programmes are suitable for your project, one of the other Lottery funders may be able to help.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations, Private sector organisations
- Application deadline
Check the other funder's websites