Managing funding under £20,000

Once you’ve been awarded National Lottery Awards for All funding, here’s what you can expect from us – and some things you’ll need to do as well.

As a grant holder, you’re now required to make sure you recognise the National Lottery support your project has had. You can do this by using our grant holder logo on your website, social media and across any printed materials.

You should see the funding in your organisation’s account in the next couple of weeks. When the funding arrives in your account, you can start spending it on the activities you told us about in your application.

If the funding doesn’t go into your account, or you don’t want the funding anymore - contact us.

You should share the good news with your community and your local elected representatives (like your MP/MSP/AM/MLA):

• Tell the world about your funding via social media
• Get in touch with your local press
• Download our logo to tell people about your National Lottery funding - if you’re in Scotland, download the logo here
• Order free plaques, stickers, bunting and more

We encourage you to keep telling everyone about the difference your project is making throughout the life of your funding.

Please keep records of the things you spend your funding on – and keep track of how it fits with your application. We want to make sure that the funding is being spent the way you said it would.

Keeping bank statements can be a good record of what you’ve spent.

We could ask to see copies of receipts, invoices and bank statements relating to your funding for at least seven years. Or at any time during the project.

Anytime you want to withdraw our funding as cash, it must be agreed by two people running the project. You also can’t withdraw more than £100 at a time. Remember to keep receipts for anything you buy in cash.

If you make small changes to your activities, or what you spend the money on, that's okay - as long as you’re still using the funding to carry out the project you told us you would in your application.

If you have a little bit of funding left over, or your activities didn’t cost quite as much as you thought, don’t worry. If it’s not more than £1,000, you can use the left-over funding to continue your project for longer - or run similar activities.

You only need to contact us if:

• the main or senior contact for your project changes
• you need more time to finish your project
• you've finished the project and have more than £1,000 of funding left over
• completely different people are going to benefit from the project than you first thought
• you want to make changes to the project and spend the funding on very different things
• you can’t carry out the project.

In any of these situations - contact your funding officer (if you have one) or contact us.

Hoping to improve your services and activities? Ask yourself, others in your organisation, and your community how the project went. This may also help you to apply for more funding in future.

You could ask:

• What have we learned?
• How many people got involved in the project?
• What did people say about the project or activities?
• What went well?
• What could have gone better?
• What would you do differently next time?
• What difference did the project make to the community?