The Big Lottery Fund: Its structure
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The Big Lottery Fund: Its structure
The main UK Board comprises 9-12 Members, including the Chair, appointed by the Minister for the Cabinet Office. It is the ultimate decision making body on all matters relating to policy, finance and operations. The Board’s responsibilities can be found in its Terms of Reference.
The Board and its Committee structure is as follows:
The Board's responsibilities can be found in its 
Terms of Reference
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Country Committees
As provided for by the 2006 Act, there are, four Country Committees, namely, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The Cabinet Office appoints the Chair of each Country Committee (because they are Board Members) and the Big Lottery Fund recruits the Country Committee Members subject to Ministerial consent (Cabinet Office in England or Ministers in the Devolved Administrations). The membership of the Country Committees can be found below:
The respective Country Committees’ responsibilities can be found in the Terms of Reference: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales.
The Chair of each Country Committee must ensure that the Country Committee is making decisions in a way that is consistent with the Board governance framework and has responsibility for reporting to the Board on decisions made.
UK Funding Committee
The Board has formally established a UK Funding Committee as a single route for decision-making on UK-wide programmes and initiatives. The UK-wide portfolio complements the four country portfolios by making links between them and identifying issues which are not addressed through them.
The Fund’s current Policy Directions from Government include shared UK themes which enable the Big Lottery Fund to run UK programmes and specifically allow us to deliver an International Programme.
The purpose of the UK funding portfolio is for programmes which are UK-wide and it has three high-level objectives:
- engaging with partners at UK-level to share experience and learning;
- maximising the impact of the Fund’s funding;
- influencing policy and practice at UK level.
The UK Funding Committee’s Terms of Reference can be found .
Standing Committees
The Board has also established the following standing committees to help it in the execution of its duties:
- The Audit & Risk Committee aims to promote the highest standards of propriety in the use of public funds and proper accountability for the use of those funds. The Committee’s Terms of Reference can be found here.
- The principal role of the Remuneration Committee, which usually meets once a year, is to oversee the performance and salaries of the Chief Executive and the Senior Management Team. The Committee’s Terms of Reference can be found here.
Programme Committees
To allow the Country Committees scope of decision-making they have the opportunity to establish programme committees to aid them with decision-making. External Members of such committees can be recruited. Programme Committee Members who are not Board or Country Committee Members are not remunerated, but can claim allowable expenses.
Executive
The Big Lottery Fund’s Senior Management Team currently comprises the Chief Executive, the Directors and the Deputy Director of Strategy Performance and Learning.
The Head of Board Secretariat is secretary to the Senior Management Team.
The Senior Management Team is accountable to the Chief Executive, normally meets monthly and makes decisions on the strategic planning and management of the Big Lottery Fund. Terms of Reference
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In summary the functions of the directorates at the time of issue cover:
- Finance & Corporate Services is responsible for Finance, Legal Services, Facilities Management (including property and strategic procurement), Human Resources (including Operational Training), Workforce Development, Internal Audit and IT.
- Communications & Marketing comprises Press, Marketing, Publications, Enquiries and support to Internal and External Communications.
- Strategy, Performance and Learning comprises UK Policy, UK Programme Management, Research and Learning, Performance and Improvement, Strategic and Corporate Planning, Customer Service, Equalities, the strategic content of Public Affairs and Internal Communications and Secretariat support for the Board.
- England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are responsible for the Policy, Operations and Communications specific to their country and for the Secretariat support for their Country Committees.
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