People and Places: Medium grants

You can apply if you are a UK-based:

• voluntary or community group

• registered charity

• co-operative

• social enterprise or community interest company

• not-for-profit company limited by guarantee

• statutory organisation such as a local authority, health board or school.

Partnerships from all sectors are welcome to apply as long as the lead applicant is one of the organisation types listed above. Your organisation must have a management committee with at least three unrelated members aged 18 years or over.

We cannot fund individuals or sole traders, profit-making groups or those not established in the UK. A majority of the people that will benefit from the project must live in Wales.

Check if you’re eligible

Want to double check your project is eligible? We’ve created an eligibility checker tool below for you to use at any time.

Please speak to us before starting your application. You can contact us by emailing wales@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk or calling our advice line on 02921 680214.

Alternatively, you can contact our advice team by emailing wales@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk or calling 0300 123 0735 between 9.00am and 5.00pm, Monday to Friday.

Eligibility Checker

People and Places can fund capital and revenue costs up to £100,000, such as equipment, staff costs and refurbishments. We can fund projects for up to five years.

For COVID-19 related ideas, we encourage you to think about any costs needed to help you and your community through the current crisis. As well as the costs to deliver your activity, this might include:

• contribution to fixed costs, investment in your systems, people and infrastructure, dedicated capacity development

We can’t fund:

• alcohol

• profit-making/fundraising activities

• recoverable VAT

• statutory activities

• political or religious activities

• paying someone else to write your application.

As part of our COVID-19 response we will particularly seek to support:

• Organisations supporting people who are at high risk from COVID-19 
• Organisations supporting communities most likely to face increased demand and challenges as a direct result of measures to prevent the result of COVID-19
• Organisations with high potential to support communities with the direct and indirect impact of Covid-19 

Over the next six months we will support organisations who fit these priorities with funding for activities specifically geared to supporting communities through this crisis. We will also consider how we can support such organisations to respond to any acute financial difficulties they might face as a result of the crisis.

We hope to support as many organisations as possible, so we ask you to limit your request to what your communities and your organisation really require to overcome the crisis over the next 6 months.

If you want to put in an application that is not related to COVID-19, you can. However, we ask you to bear with us it may take us longer to get back to you than usual. Our usual funding priorities are below.

You have told us that you would prefer to talk to us about your project idea before you start to complete an application form.

We have listened to your feedback and are asking applicants to contact us by phone or email before we send you an application form. This isn’t an assessment – we are here to support you to develop your project idea and talk through any questions you have.

You shouldn't worry that you only have one chance to speak to us. Remember you can contact us again for advice at any time. To get the most out of the conversation, make sure that you read the programme guidance, which is available below.

The type of questions we’ll ask you are available in the guidance document. It will be useful for you to have as much of this information to hand as possible. If you’re emailing us for advice about your project idea, please provide as much of this information in your email as possible so that we can respond with appropriate feedback.

If we think your project is something we could fund but you need to do some work on your idea, we will offer some advice for you to consider before giving you an application form.

If we feel your project is ready, we will send you an application form for you to complete and return to us. Once we have received your completed form, we will assess your application and provide you with a decision within three months. If your project isn’t something we can’t fund under People and Places, we will tell you why.

You can contact our Advice team by emailing wales@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk or calling 0300 123 0735 between 9.00am and 5.00pm, Monday to Friday.

Related documents

• Guidance notes (PDF 3MB)

• Sample application form - medium grants (PDF 778KB)

• Land and buildings guidance - medium grants (PDF 276KB)

• Standard terms and conditions (PDF 218KB)

• Capital terms and conditions (PDF 174KB)

• Managing your project bilingually (PDF 115KB)

Get help using our electronic forms here.

Reduce your environmental footprint

The National Lottery Community Fund cares about our environment and are always striving to manage our environmental impact. We encourage and support projects and communities to do the same. Learn more about how you can make your project or event more environmentally sustainable and perhaps save money at the same time.

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