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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.

Funding to provide activities that are stimulating, challenging and enjoyable

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

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.

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 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

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

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

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

Promoting good health

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

Every child deserves the best start in life

Helping disadvantaged communities around the world

Helping disadvantaged communities around the world

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.

Supporting large-scale capital projects through two distinct funding streams

Five inspirational projects to benefit UK communities

If none of the current The National Lottery Community Fund programmes are suitable for your project, one of the other Lottery funders may be able to help.

IKEA UK and The National Lottery Community Fund have come together to support thriving, resilient and sustainable communities across the UK. Places Called Home is a new £1.5 million fund which aims to inspire and enable communities to invest in their local community as an extension of their home.

Providing a broad range of activities to help divert young people from taking part in criminal activity

Helping young people avoid pathways into offending

Finding out how to help communities move towards recovery and renewal after the impact of COVID-19

Strengthening and renewing infrastructure to be fit for the future

Projects to improve local facilities or help people get more out of their area

This programme is closed to new applications

We’re back with The National Lottery, ITV, UTV and, for the first time this year, the Sunday Mail. We’re giving community organisations the chance to apply for funding of up to £70,000.

After a national campaign the winners will be decided by public vote. The idea is to give Lottery players and the public a say in how National Lottery money is spent.

We’re looking for projects that:

• bring people together and build strong relationships in and across communities
• make communities stronger and more inclusive
• help people or communities develop the skills and capacity they need to achieve their ambitions
• involve the people you support in the design, development and delivery of your project
• support people to create meaningful change in their local community or help it thrive
• help people and communities connect by engaging with nature
• build connections across different cultures, different communities, or both.

We’re looking for imaginative ideas from organisations that have already done good work in their local community. We’ll prioritise smaller organisations with annual turnovers of under £500,000.

We’ll award grants of up to £70,000 to 57 winners across the UK. We will offer up to 38 runner-up organisations awards of as much as £10,000.

This is an exciting opportunity, but it will take time and commitment over several months to get your project the votes you need to win. Before deciding to apply, consider if you’re happy running a public campaign that could bring lots of publicity to your project. We’ll provide free support and training to help you do this.

Watch British Sign Language interpretation of our introduction to The People’s Projects with English voice over and subtitles (YouTube):

The Platinum Jubilee celebrates 70 years of The Queen’s reign and to mark this occasion, The National Lottery Community Fund will fund 70 projects across the UK.

A small grants programme with a big impact

Larger amounts of funding for to expand on existing work. We’ll fund projects that help bring diverse communities together. We’ll also fund projects that help children and young people use their voice to influence change.

Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the events that led to the end of the Second World War

We’re offering funding from £1,000 to £10,000 to support communities across the UK to take action on climate change. The UK Government is using Together for Our Planet to engage people with COP26 and inspire positive climate action.

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