What funding is available?
What funding is available?
National Lottery Awards for All Northern Ireland
£300–£10,000
- Projects bringing local people together to make positive changes in their community.
- No deadline, so groups can apply any time.
- Applying is quick and simple.
- Applications welcome from constituted voluntary or community organisations, schools, and statutory bodies.
- If we funded you within the last two years, we may have to give priority to other groups that have not recently been funded through this programme.
- This funding is for projects that will run for 12 months or less
People and Communities
£10,000–£500,000
- Project ideas should come from the community. Talk to the people you want to help and get them involved in shaping and planning the project.
- Your project should make good use of the skills, knowledge, resources and energy of people within your community; making it stronger and ready for the future.
- Understand the need for your project and how it fits with the work of other organisations. Build relationships and work together on shared goals.
- Applications welcome from constituted voluntary or community organisations, and social enterprises.
- This funding is for projects that will run for between 1 and 5 years.
Empowering Young People
£10,000–£500,000
- This funding is for projects that work with young people (8 – 25 years old), and which will run for between 1 and 5 years.
- Projects will help young people to: have the skills they need for the future; have better relationships with their support networks and communities; and/or have improved health and wellbeing.
- Young people must be involved in the planning and delivery of the project. They must be able to develop the skills to help themselves, and their support networks and communities need to be involved too.
- Applications welcome from constituted voluntary or community organisations, and social enterprises.
Great Ideas
£10,000 to £500,000
- We believe that working with people at every stage of the process helps communities to thrive.
- However, we have learned that this approach sometimes leaves gaps for great ideas which don’t necessarily involve people at every stage of their development, but if implemented would contribute to putting people in the lead.
- So we have developed Great Ideas to support projects like this. Projects that we could support under Great Ideas might include activity like testing digital approaches, developing user led approaches or developing community decision making.
Dormant Accounts Fund
Grant size - TBD
- Under Section 22 of the Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Act 2008, we distribute money under direction from the Department of Finance to increase capacity, resilience and sustainability in the Northern Ireland Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector.
- These funds are not derived from National Lottery activity.
- To ensure this funding has maximum impact in communities across Northern Ireland, we are consulting with the sector throughout late 2019. Once this is completed, we expect the fund to open for applications in early 2020.
We’d like to talk to you about your ideas early on so we can give you the best funding advice, so please call our team on 028 9055 1455.
