All programmes

We’re marking The National Lottery’s 25th birthday by bringing people together. We’re offering people and communities with great ideas the chance to receive a grant between £100 and £1,000.

The #iwill Fund will enable more young people to take part in social action through high quality opportunities which create lifelong habits.

2014 Communities offers grants of between £300 and £2,000 to encourage more people to take part in physical activity.

We want network or support organisations to improve access to the help they provide to small, underrepresented community groups in Northern Ireland.

Encouraging creative approaches to increase physical activity and sports participation

Active Futures will fund anything that gets young people active

Funding to provide activities that are stimulating, challenging and enjoyable

Improving the quality of life of older people by providing access to befriending or advocacy services

Funding to provide legal advice and support to those most in need

Government funding for free advice services for people in England

Helping the not-for-profit advice sector

The UK Portfolio explores new and innovative approaches, and develops and tests new ways of building a stronger civil society.

Digital skills for people and communities most in need

Funding support for voluntary and community organisations to help them become more effective

£8 million investment in Scotland to support people affected by domestic abuse and survivors of domestic abuse

Supporting organisations to redesign the way they work

Developing new rehabilitation projects for people affected by drug misuse

Supporting new projects that test new ways of tackling emerging and existing social problems

Helping people make their communities better places to live in, now and in the future

Channelling investments from dormant accounts

This programme is now closed. It offered smaller grants available to people in Blaenau Gwent with a good idea, for people who have not had a grant from us before and who want to do something for their community in Blaenau Gwent.

Building the emotional resilience of young parents and young disabled people so that they can manage key transitions in their lives

This funding is for projects that build stronger connections across communities. We're looking for ideas that strengthen these connections by exploring and developing the conditions needed to build better and longer-lasting ways of bringing people together.

The Building Better Opportunities Programme is now closed. The Programme was funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, with matched funding from the European Social Fund for projects across England that tackled poverty and promoted social inclusion.

A £10 million investment helping to develop and shape Northern Ireland’s community and voluntary sector

A new £15m Trust working with disadvantaged communities in Wales

Following the Prime Minister's wider endorsement of the Jo Cox Commission recommendations on Loneliness in January 2018, the £11.5 million Building Connections Fund has been set up to support projects that are able to prevent or reduce loneliness.

Paving the way for the creation of new childcare places by investing in much needed buildings

Funding to develop quality facilities for pre-school day care

Funding for projects that assist and support people living with cancer

Funding for projects that assist and support people living with cancer

Funding for projects that assist and support people living with cancer

Funding to help hospitals improve their cancer treatment facilities

Celebrating 2014 Commonwealth Games through arts, sports and community celebrations

Changing Futures is helping the public sector and local communities work together in new ways, to change people’s lives for the better.

£200 million of investment in environmental projects across England to improve communities and lives

BIG’s Children’s Play Initiative

If you're unsuccessful with our funding, or the Climate Action Fund is not right for you, you may want to consider other funders.

Contact individual organisations for what opportunities they currently have, their eligibility criteria and whether or not they accept unsolicited applications.

This funding aims to help communities across the UK to address climate change. We’re looking for projects that focus on community-driven energy projects that can deliver benefits to climate, environment and society. Strengthening the health and wellbeing of people and communities across the UK.

This funding aims to help communities across the UK to address climate change. We’re looking for projects that focus on the link between nature and climate. We want to fund projects that use nature to encourage more community-led climate action.

With this funding we want to involve more people in climate action. And we want to inspire bold and exciting change.

The Climate Action Fund is a ten-year £100 million fund supporting communities across the UK to take action on climate change.

The Climate Action Fund is supporting communities across the UK to take action on climate change.

The National Lottery Community Fund working with the Cabinet Office to support the development of more innovative approaches to improving social outcomes

Supporting projects that help families and communities give children the best start in life

Supporting communities in England to live and work in a more sustainable way

Funding for communities in Scotland. We're looking for projects that will help people connect more with each other. We'll support projects that are open, inclusive and led by their community.

Enabling communities to have more control and influence over their future development

Grants from £10,000 to £1 million to create strong and resilient communities through assets.

Funding to support community-led activity and wellbeing.

We’re looking for 10 to 15 partners to work with us in the development stage of our Community Power fund.

Community Spaces Scotland supports communities to become more involved in and to take responsibility for communal spaces and places

Community Voice

Let communities explore and celebrate their local wildlife

Grants from £20,001 to £75,000 to help support individuals, families and communities currently experiencing hardship as a result of the cost of living increases.

Awarding emergency funding to charities in Northern Ireland

To help us distribute funding quickly and efficiently, some of our COVID-19 response funding is being awarded through a carefully selected range of specialist partners.

Supporting organisations working in partnership to continue delivering services to people and communities affected by COVID-19

Supporting organisations working in partnership to continue delivering services to people and communities affected by COVID-19

Supporting organisations to continue delivering services to people and communities affected by COVID-19

Supporting organisations to continue delivering services to people and communities affected by COVID-19

Create Your Space enables communities to improve their local natural environment. We want communities to decide how to conserve and / or improve their local natural environment in a way that makes a real difference for them and meets the needs of future generations.

A small grants programme bringing people together to enjoy a range of arts and culture activities

We’re matching funds from the European Social Fund, one of the European Structural Fund's programmes, for services across Scotland to tackle poverty and promote social inclusion.

The first round of Digital Fund funding has now closed. Under Strands 1 and 2, we awarded £12.1m to 29 organisations and £500,000 for a support contract to work with them. There is £2.4m remaining of the £15m allocated to the Digital Fund, as announced in 2018. We are currently doing some discovery work to determine the needs of micro organisations across the UK, and whether these needs are primarily digital. We will use this work to inform how we support these groups in 2020. Alongside this, we are scoping how the remaining funds can have the most impact and we hope to launch a small number of small, strategic funds in 2020. For regular updates on the Digital Fund, please follow the team’s Medium blog.

Providing funding to make learning materials available, free of charge, on the Internet

Dormant Accounts Fund NI supports the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector in Northern Ireland to be more resilient and prepared for the future by funding activity that increases capacity and sustainability.

The Early Action Neighbourhood Fund (EANF) was a pilot joint funding initiative between Comic Relief, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The National Lottery Community Fund, The Legal Education Foundation, and Barrow Cadbury Trust.

Helping to make the shift towards effective early action in Scotland

International funding

A larger amount of funding (between £20,001 and £500,000) for projects that work with young people (between the ages of 8 and 25) to face and overcome challenges.

Improving energy efficiency in community venues across Northern Ireland

Reducing the inequalities in provision of and access to cancer services in England

Parts of the UK missed out on Lottery funding. Fair Share has been helping to change that

Funding for projects that support children, young people and families. Or that help people to be healthier and have better access to support.

Helping parents understand how their children learn and encouraging families to learn together

Promoting the consumption of fruit and vegetables in England

Supporting capital projects for schools and the community

Supporting the psychological wellbeing and successful and sustainable transition of veterans and their families into civilian life.

Encouraging young people aged 16–18 years into work placements to enhance their employability

The National Lottery Community Fund has teamed up with the North Wales Chronicle and the North Wales Pioneer to award up to £25,000 worth of grants to community groups

We're looking for a partner to help increase the knowledge, skills and resilience of civil society organisations

Great Ideas is designed to support great ideas that don’t necessarily involve people at every stage but if implemented would contribute to putting people in the lead.

Our Growing Great Ideas programme has a focus on supporting transformational and long-term change.

Promoting healthy active lifestyles among children and families.

Promoting healthy active lifestyles among children under 12.

Promoting good health

Boosting mental health in Northern Ireland

Help Through Crisis is a £33 million programme supporting 69 partnerships across England which help people who are experiencing or at risk of hardship crisis to overcome the difficulties they are facing to plan for their futures.

Grants of up to £1.5 million to redesign and improve services for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness in rural Wales.

Helping Working Families funds projects that improve the lives of working families who are in poverty.

Providing Lottery funding to help World War II veterans take part in commemorative visits

Investing £10 million in Northern Ireland to address the harm caused by alcohol misuse

Helping people become more confident in and more aware of how to take control of their finances

Every child deserves the best start in life

Grants from £20,001 to £200,000 to help people facing challenging circumstances

The National Lottery Community Fund is to invest £4.74 million in a programme that aims to improve the life chances of looked after children in Wales.

Helping disadvantaged communities around the world

Helping disadvantaged communities around the world

Supporting communities to take more control and influence over their own future through ownership of assets

Supporting people at key times of change, helping them make their lives better for the future

Funding projects that build stronger families and stronger communities

£500 to £10,000 for organisations to think about, develop and test new ideas or make improvements that will benefit those most in need

A new £15 million investment in Scotland to help disadvantaged urban communities most affected by serious disadvantage to become stronger through their own efforts

Extending the positive impact of the London 2012 Games

Supporting organisations set up or run by people with first-hand experience of a social issue, who are trying to create positive change for communities and people who share those experiences.

This programme is now closed.

Leaders with Lived Experience is a pilot programme providing National Lottery grants of between £20,000 and £50,000 to support lived experience leadership. A lived experience leader is someone who uses their first-hand experience of a social issue to create positive change for, and with, communities and people they share those experiences with. At this stage we expect to award between 15-20 grants.