National Lottery Awards for All England

We can fund a wide range of items, and below are some examples of these. This isn’t exhaustive, so you should contact us if you’re unsure.

We can fund:

• equipment

• one-off events

• small capital projects

• staff costs

• training costs

• transport

• utilities/running costs

• volunteer expenses.

We can’t fund:

• alcohol

• contingency costs, loans, endowments or interest

• electricity generation and feed-in tariff payments.

• paying someone else to write your application

• political or religious activities

• profit-making/fundraising activities

• recoverable VAT

• statutory activities.

Below is the information you’ll be asked to put in your application.

Take the time to make sure you’ve got everything you need before your apply online.

Contact details

You’ll need to give the names, contact details and dates of birth of two unconnected people from your organisation, one of whom will be the legally responsible contact for any grant awarded.

By unconnected we mean not related by blood or marriage, in a long-term relationship or living together at the same address.

Organisation details

What type of organisation are you? What is its full legal name and address and postcode?

Accounting details

What is your accounting year end date and total annual income?

To be eligible for funding you need to produce annual accounts, or have set up your organisation less than 15 months ago and not yet produced them.

Bank statement

Make sure you have a copy of your organisation’s bank statement from the last three months (or a bank welcome letter if you have opened a new account in the last three months).

This should be for the UK-based account you want us to pay your grant into, if you’re successful. You must have at least two unrelated people who are able to manage the account you want to use. The statement needs to show the:

• organisation’s legal name
• address the statements are sent to
• bank name
• account number and sort code
• date.

See more detailed guidance on what we look for on your bank statements (PDF, 466KB)

If you are a school who uses a local authority bank account, please attach a letter from the local authority that confirms your school name, the bank account name and number and sort code. The letter must be on local authority headed paper and dated. Other statutory bodies can attach a letter from their finance department that confirms the details of the bank account funding would be paid into.

About your project

Project details

You’ll need to tell us:

• the name of your project
• when your project will start (this must be at least 12 weeks from when you submit your application)
• where your project will take place
• all the costs involved in your project
• whether your project targets a specific group of people and, if so, who.

What you want to do

You’ll also have around 500 words to tell us about what you want your project to do.

There are two key areas that we will be looking at when making a decision - make sure your answer focuses on these as much as possible.

1. You meet at least one of our funding priorities, which are:

• bringing people together and building strong relationships in and across communities
• improving the places and spaces that matter to communities
• enabling more people to fulfil their potential by working to address issues at the earliest possible stage.

2. You involve your community in the design, development and delivery of the activities you’re planning. Tell us how you’ve done this.

Submit your application through our online form. Read our guidance for online applications (PDF 420KB) before you apply.

If you want to find out what information we'll ask for when you apply, see the What we need to know section.

Apply online

We aim to let you know our decision in about 14 weeks.

Get in touch

If you need more information, advice or support in completing your application (or need the application materials in an alternative format) please contact us at general.enquiries@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk or call our advice team on 0345 4 10 20 30.

Text relay users, please use 18001 plus 0345 4 10 20 30.

We’d also love to hear your feedback on how you found the experience of applying.

Related Documents

• National Lottery Awards for All England guidance notes (PDF)
• National Lottery Awards for All terms and conditions (PDF)
  

Checks

As an organisation that gives out public funds, we carry out some checks on the information you provide us. Learn more about our checks