Funding programmes
Funding, Funding programmes
We're open to all applications that meet our criteria, including supporting people and communities most adversely impacted by the pandemic.
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National Lottery Awards for All England
A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £10,000.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £300 to £10,000, for up to one year
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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National Lottery Awards for All Wales
A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £10,000.
- 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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Offers a larger amount of funding (over £10,000) for projects that last up to five years. We’re looking for projects that work with their community – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £10,001 or more, for up to five years
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Offers a larger amount of funding (over £10,000) for organisations that work together with a shared set of goals to help their community thrive – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £10,001 or more, for up to five years
- 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
- £10001 to £100000
- Total available
- Up to £19 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
- £100001 to £500000
- Total available
- Up to £19 million each year through both strands of the People and Places programme
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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A larger amount of funding (between £10,001 and £500,000) for projects working with your community – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.
- Area
- Northern Ireland
- Funding size
- £10001 to £500000
- Total available
- £57 million
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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A larger amount of funding (between £10,001 and £500,000) for projects that work with young people (between the ages of 8 and 25) to face and overcome challenges.
- Area
- Northern Ireland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £10001 to £500000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Funding to support community-led activity and wellbeing.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £10001 to £150000
- Application deadline
midday 30 September 2022
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Grants from £10,001 to £200,000 to help people facing challenging circumstances
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £10001 to £200000
- Application deadline
midday 30 September 2022
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Dormant Accounts Fund NI will support the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector in Northern Ireland to be more resilient and prepared for the future by funding activity that increases capacity and sustainability.
- Area
- Northern Ireland
- Funding size
- Up to £100,000 for individual organisations. If you are working with other organisations to share services or are considering merging with another organisation, talk to us before you apply as we may consider awarding more than £100,000
- Total available
- £20 million
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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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
- £10,001 to £100,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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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
- £5000 to £1000000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Supporting Great Ideas awards 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
- Funding size
- £10,001 and over
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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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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The UK Portfolio explores new and innovative approaches, and develops and tests new ways of building a stronger civil society.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Funding size
- Over £50,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Supporting the psychological wellbeing and successful and sustainable transition of veterans and their families into civilian life.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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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
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Helping End Homelessness - Rural
Grants of up to £1.5 million to redesign and improve services for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness in rural Wales.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Applications from partnerships covering rural homelessness in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey, Powys, or Pembrokeshire. Voluntary or community organisations, public sector organisations, and private sector organisations working in partnerships in rural areas of Wales. Partnerships must include the local authority/authorities covering the area. We will only accept one application for each local authority area.
- Total available
- £3 million
- Application deadline
You must send us an Expression of Interest form by 3pm on Tuesday 31 May 2022
If your idea is accepted, we will send you a longer application form, asking for more information about your project and organisation, and we will ask you to develop a project plan. You will need to return these to us to us by 12pm on Thursday 24 November 2022
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This funding is for projects that build stronger connections across communities. We're looking for ideas that strengthen these connections by exploring and developing the conditions needed to build better and longer-lasting ways of bringing people together.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Suitable for
- Voluntary and community organisations
- Funding size
- Up to a maximum of £1 million for up to five years. We expect most of the funding will go to projects that request between £200,000 and £500,000. There will be a smaller number of awards for projects above £500,000.
- Application deadline
Ongoing
