Blog posts
Looking for colour, context and perspective about the work of The National Lottery Community Fund, its impact on communities and topics currently in the news? It’s all here. This blog will explain, explore, showcase and examine the ways in which civil society, and as a result the sector, is changing. Read about what people in communities across the UK and sector thought leaders have to say and form your own opinion.
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Why you should Love Coventry – 2021’s UK City of Culture
17 May, 2021
Last Thursday (12 May), the team at Coventry City of Culture Trust announced the Love Coventry programme, and £1.3 million of new funding from The National Lottery Community Fund. Read more -
Helping us evidence the impact of our funding
28 April, 2021
At The National Lottery Community Fund, we believe it is important that we learn from our funding so we can improve the way we support organisations and communities in the future. Read more -
Rebuilding our planet post-pandemic: communities and the climate crisis
21 April, 2021
Facing up to tackling climate change we know people and communities feel overwhelmed at the size of the challenge. Lifestyle changes are hard and reducing our carbon footprint feels impossible. Read more -
HeadStart: Helping schools to respond to uncertainty and change during COVID-19
18 March, 2021
We’re taking a look at how The National Lottery Community Fund’s HeadStart programme – a six-year, £67.4 million programme set up to help improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people and prevent serious mental health issues from developing – has supported schools during the pandemic. Read more -
Bringing People Together: a new funding programme
15 March, 2021
Today marks a year since the first announcement on 16 March 2020 that all ‘unnecessary social contact’ should stop across the UK due to COVID-19. Read more -
National Lottery Community Fund supporting Plunkett Foundation in 2020
11 March, 2021
Whilst it seems hard to think back to a time pre-Covid, the reality for the community-owned business sector was that they started 2020 in a relatively buoyant position. Read more -
The New Infrastructure Programme: the story so far
10 March, 2021
We set up the New Infrastructure Programme last year to give critical community infrastructure organisations the opportunity, space and time to plan for the future. Today we have announced funding to 14 vital and varied infrastructure organisations across the UK. Read more -
Taking climate action by tackling waste and championing sustainable consumption
24 February, 2021
Our recently launched second round of the Climate Action Fund has a clear focus on waste and sustainable consumption. From repair & re-use to food waste, from tackling a culture of consumerism to deep-dives on individual waste streams, we know that a wide range of community-led approaches are already being implemented across the UK in approaching this issue. We’re looking for exemplar projects which demonstrate how communities can work together to tackle the carbon emissions associated with an increasingly wasteful society. Read more -
Andy Haldane: Social capital is the glue that binds communities together
28 January, 2021
Past pandemics have tended to collapse the capital on which capitalism is built: physical capital, human capital and financial capital. Yet there is one capital that, historically and currently, has bucked these trends: social capital. Read more -
Supporting communities to take action on climate change – the Climate Action Fund so far..
26 January, 2021
It’s been 18 months since we launched the Climate Action Fund – a £100million fund that supports communities across the UK to take action on climate change - and a lot has happened in that time. Read more
