Funding programmes
Funding, Funding programmes
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National Lottery Awards for All England
A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £20,000.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £300 to £20,000, for up to two years
- Application deadline
Ongoing. Apply at least 16 weeks before you want to start the activities or spend any of the money.
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National Lottery Awards for All Wales
A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £20,000.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £300 to £20,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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National Lottery Awards for All Scotland
A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £20,000.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £300 to £20,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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National Lottery Awards for All Northern Ireland
A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £20,000.
- Area
- Northern Ireland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £300 to £20,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing. Apply at least 12 weeks before you want to start the activities or spend any of the money.
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Offers a larger amount of funding (over £20,001) for projects that last up to five years. We’re looking for projects that work with their community – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £20,001 or more, for up to five years
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Offers a larger amount of funding (over £20,001) for organisations that work together with a shared set of goals to help their community thrive – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £20,001 or more, for up to five years
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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People and Places: Medium grants
Funding capital and revenue community projects from £20,001 to £100,000.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £20,001 to £100,000
- Total available
- Up to £23 million in the current financial year
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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People and Places: Large grants
Funding capital and revenue community projects from £100,001 to £500,000.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £100,001 to £500,000
- Total available
- Up to £23 million in the current financial year
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Funding to support community-led activity and wellbeing.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £20,001 to £150,000
- Application deadline
Midday on 21 August 2024
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Grants from £20,001 to £200,000 to help people facing challenging circumstances
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £20,001 to £200,000
- Application deadline
Midday on 21 August 2024
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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.
- Area
- Northern Ireland
- Funding size
- Applications closed for individual organisations on 3 March 2023. Organisations can chat to us about strategic investments.
- Total available
- Total programme budget will vary, depending on Dormant funds available
- Application deadline
Closed to individual applications at 5pm 3 March 2023. Strategic investments discussions are still taking place.
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Helping young people aged eight to 24 to become more confident and play an active part in realising their potential.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £20,001 to £100,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Supporting urban and rural communities to become more resilient and sustainable through the ownership and management of land and land assets.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £5000 to £1000000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Supporting Great Ideas awards grants to support innovative and strategically important project ideas that encourage positive social change in Wales.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Voluntary/community organisations and statutory bodies
- Funding size
- £20,001 and over
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Climate Action Fund - Our Shared Future
With this funding we want to involve more people in climate action. And we want to inspire bold and exciting change.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Suitable for
- Formal partnerships, working across sectors. Led by community and voluntary organisations or public sector organisations.
- Funding size
- The minimum you can ask for is £500,000. We expect to fund most projects for between £1 million and £1.5 million over 3 to 5 years. We may fund a small number of larger or longer projects. Contact us if you would like to discuss this. We aim to fund up to 25 projects.
- Total available
- £20 million
- Application deadline
You’ll be able to apply until at least the end of 2024. We plan to close to applications in early 2025. We will announce the final deadline nearer the time.
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We’re looking to fund organisations that want to do more to help communities come together and help make us a better-connected society.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Funding size
- £500,000 to £5 million
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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The UK Portfolio explores new and innovative approaches, and develops and tests new ways of building a stronger civil society.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Funding size
- Over £500,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Supporting the psychological wellbeing and successful and sustainable transition of veterans and their families into civilian life.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Other National Lottery Funders
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.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations, Private sector organisations
- Application deadline
Check the other funder's websites
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Cost-of-Living Support Scotland
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.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £20,001 to £75,000
- Application deadline
Midday on 21 August 2024
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Sustainable Steps Wales - Egin Grants
We want to help community groups in Wales who are starting to take action on climate change and want to live in a more sustainable way. Our grants will help groups who are receiving support from Sustainable Steps Wales - Egin Mentoring Service to kick start their ideas.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Groups which have received mentoring from Egin (the Sustainable Steps Wales - mentoring service) and have completed an action plan.
- Funding size
- £100 to £15000
- Total available
- £3.75 million over 5 years
- Application deadline
You can apply when you’re ready. Funding is normally up to £15,000.
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Sustainable Community Buildings
This funding is to help organisations be more environmentally sustainable. It's capital funding (up to £50,000) to improve the energy efficiency of community buildings.
- Area
- Northern Ireland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations (with an annual income of less than £500,000)
- Funding size
- Up to £50,000 (capital funding only)
- Application deadline
Check the deadline for your council area
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We want network or support organisations to improve access to the help they provide to small, underrepresented community groups in Northern Ireland.
- Area
- Northern Ireland
- Suitable for
- Support, network, umbrella, membership or community anchor organisations.
- Funding size
- Up to £150,000, for up to 3 years.
- Total available
- £3 million. We aim to make around 25 to 30 grants.
- Application deadline
12pm on Thursday 4 July 2024
