News
If you want to find out about what’s happening at The National Lottery Community Fund, you’ve come to the right place. You can read the latest news on: the community groups and charities we fund, how we work with the Government and other funders to distribute National Lottery money and how we support local communities across the UK to become more active, vibrant and stronger together.
Blog posts
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How the growing taste for a key ingredient in civil society’s fortunes is shaping social investment lending
4 June, 2019
Once upon a time, philanthropy was the key ingredient underpinning efforts to catch people at risk of slipping through the gap between the power of the state, the market and the reach of social networks to address need. But in 2019, things look a bit different. Read more -
Shared ambition & belief: a new basis for bonding between funders & charities?
13 May, 2019
Our aim is to ensure that applying for and receiving funding is much more like an equal relationship between charities and funders. In this blog, Dan Paskins looks at how charities and communities have shaped our new funding approach. Read more -
How our new Past Grant Search fed Google’s hungry spider
14 March, 2019
The inside story of how we rebuilt our past grants search tool and added over half a million pages to Google in the process Read more
Press Releases
Our press releases will give you the key facts about funding announcements, new grants or research, special events, launches, which charities have been awarded funding, innovative projects, best practice in the sector and more.