Funding in Wales

We’re here for you as communities recover and rebuild following the COVID-19 pandemic. You can apply for funding to deliver a new or existing activity or to support your organisation to change and adapt to new and future challenges, including the current cost of living crisis.

We’re here to help. Please contact us if you have an idea by calling 0300 123 0735 or emailing wales@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk.

When you have a project idea you want to put to us please give us a call to talk it through. We’ll be able to tell you if it’s something that we’d fund.

National Lottery Awards for All

£300–£20,000

• For grassroots and community activity that aims to improve life for local people and neighbourhoods.
• There’s no deadline, so you can apply at any time.
• This is our most popular grants programme, so we will prioritise groups with smaller incomes.
• Applying for this grant is quick and simple.

See programme

People and Places: Medium grants

£20,001–£100,000

• Grants for voluntary or community groups.
• We will fund revenue or capital expenditure lasting up to five years.
• The most important thing is that you tell us about your community and how the project will make positive changes on the lives of people within it.
• This is a one stage application process.

See programme

People and Places: Large grants

£100,001–£500,000

• Grants for voluntary or community groups.
• We will fund revenue or capital expenditure lasting up to five years.
• The most important thing is that you tell us about your community and how the project will make positive changes on the lives of people within it.
• This is a two stage application process.

See programme

We believe people should be in the lead when improving their lives and communities. Our approach focuses on the skills and energy people can draw upon and the potential in their ideas. We are asking what matters to communities, not what’s the matter with them.

We are interested in ideas that support:

• Strong relationships - supporting ideas that bring people together, strengthening relationships in and across communities.
• Shared and sustainable places and spaces - supporting people to shape the places that matter to them, like a park, community centre or an online network.
• Early Action — supporting activity that empowers people to fulfil their potential, working to address problems at the earliest stage. We do this through:
• Funding grassroots community action across Wales.
• Offering long-term, flexible funding and support to charities and community groups
• Helping organisations to work together with others to improve communities and solve problems

The National Lottery Community Fund cares about our environment and are always striving to manage our environmental impact. We encourage and support projects and communities to do the same. Learn more about how you can make your project or event more environmentally sustainable and perhaps save money at the same time.