Young People in the Lead advisory team member, Loren Townsend Elliot, talks about her journey to become a panel member and how youth voice can raise awareness of youth mental health issues. Read more

Nick Gardner, Head of Climate Action at the National Lottery Community Fund, summarises and reflects on a recent convening event on the community response to food distribution challenges during COVID-19. With summary of the event by Isobel Roberts. Read more

The combined evidence from three of our funding programmes that support people experiencing multiple disadvantage – Fulfilling Lives, Women and Girls Initiative and Help Through Crisis - shows, in many cases, that pre-existing disadvantage has become worse during COVID-19 and organisations have been rapidly adapting the support they provide. Read more

John Rose, our Director for Wales, reflects on the response of funders to the immediate challenges of COVID-19 and the longer-term implications for civil society in Wales. Read more

The National Lottery Community Fund’s Strategic Framework, People in the Lead, believes that with people in the lead communities thrive, and we’ve worked hard to think about how we reflect lived experience in our approach. Read more

People can experience loneliness at any point in their lives. For those people who have lost connections, it’s daunting to get out and meet people and make new friends. So how do they do that? Read more

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