Funding programmes
Funding, Funding programmes
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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
- 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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Reaching Communities England
This programme 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
- Over £10,000
- Total available
- £190m this financial year
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Partnerships
This programme 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
- Over £10,000
- 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
- £10,001 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
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
- £10,001 to £500,000
- Total available
- £57 million
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Empowering Young People
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
- £10,001 to £500,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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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
- £10,001 to £150,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Grants for improving lives
Grants from £10,001 to £500,000 to help people facing challenging circumstances
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £10,001 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
- £10,001 to £1,000,000
- Application deadline
All stage 2 applications must be submitted by the end of August 2020. Before this point a stage 1 application must also be completed. This typically takes around 6 months, so please allow for this when you plan your application.
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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
- £10,001 to £500,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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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
- Funding size
- £10,001 and over
- 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
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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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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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.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Application deadline
Applications currently paused
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Digital Fund
The first round of Digital Fund funding has now closed. Under Strands 1 and 2, we awarded £12.1m to 29 organisations and £500,000 for a support contract to work with them. There is £2.4m remaining of the £15m allocated to the Digital Fund, as announced in 2018. We are currently doing some discovery work to determine the needs of micro organisations across the UK, and whether these needs are primarily digital. We will use this work to inform how we support these groups in 2020. Alongside this, we are scoping how the remaining funds can have the most impact and we hope to launch a small number of small, strategic funds in 2020. For regular updates on the Digital Fund, please follow the team’s Medium blog.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Application deadline
Applications initially open on 22nd October 2018 and close on 3rd December 2018.
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Mayor’s Community Weekend
On the weekend of Saturday 4 July and Sunday 5 July 2020, 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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Dormant Accounts Fund
The Dormant Accounts Fund will be used to increase capacity, resilience and sustainability in the Northern Ireland Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector.
- Area
- Northern Ireland
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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
This programme will award grants to strategic projects that seek to redesign services to make homelessness rare, brief and non-recurrent.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, public sector organisations and private sector organisations working in partnerships
- Funding size
- Over £10,000
- Total available
- £10 million
- Application deadline
Expression of Interest by 12:00pm on 29 May 2020. Please get in touch as soon as possible if you’re thinking about applying.
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The Healthy Communities Together programme
This programme offers up to £3 million of grant funding (over three years) to empower voluntary and community sector organisations to work together with the local health and care sector to boost the health and wellbeing of their communities.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Partnerships (see Who can apply?)
- Funding size
- Up to £500,000 over four years
- Total available
- up to £3 million
- Application deadline
Eligibility deadline is 27 March 2020