Big Lottery Fund

• Small grants of between £500 - £10,000 awarded per application
• Only one grant can be applied for or held at any one time.  
• You can apply for more than one award within a 12 month period as long as your original award has been closed by us.
• Maximum amount awarded over a 12 month period is £20,000
• Ongoing programme, with no closing dates
• Can fund health, education, environment and community projects
• Open to voluntary and community organizations and statutory organisations

• Grants of between £2,000-£10,000 and £15,000-£50,000
• Launched on 19 May 2010
• Closing date 19 May 2012
• Ongoing programme, with no application deadline dates
• Aims to make community venues more energy efficient
• Can fund venues owned or leased by community and voluntary organisations
• Open to voluntary and community organisations in Northern Ireland

• Grants of between £150 - £5,500 available
• Launched on 1 April 2009
• Closing date 31 January 2012
• Can fund WW2 veterans from the UK, Channel Islands and Republic of Ireland wishing to visit the places where they saw active service.
• Can cover the costs of travel and accommodation.
• Can also provide funding for veterans to take part in an official commemoration in the UK.
• Open to individual WW2 veterans and their spouses

We want to fund a range of projects that will achieve the following programme outcome:

• to reduce the harm to individuals, families and communities directly affected by alcohol misuse.

We will make grants to statutory, voluntary and community organisations for a range of projects that will help us achieve this outcome. We will also use the experience and expertise of the Public Health Agency, each of the five Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Trusts and their partners to ensure that this programme is delivered successfully.

We are using two approaches to deliver this programme; Portfolio Grants to fund projects operating in one Health Trust area and Northern Ireland-wide grants to support projects working in more than one area.

• Around 20 grants of up to £900,000 each awarded for projects lasting between 3 – 5 years

Every child deserves the best start in life, but we know that some grow up in difficult circumstances. Some families experience multiple and complex problems – for example, to do with poor health, unemployment, debt or housing problems – which can affect their children’s wellbeing and life chances.

The Improving Futures programme aims to improve outcomes for children within these families.

Following extensive consultation with public and voluntary sector organisations, we have decided to fund partnerships that can offer joined-up support and provision for families with multiple and complex problems at a local level. Interested parties need to be aware of the following:

• Partnerships must be led by voluntary sector organisations, but will need to be supported by or include local authorities in Wales and England, Community Planning Partnerships in Scotland, and Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland
• Because every family is different, partnerships will need to be able to draw on a broad range of expertise and services to meet their needs, including setting out to help those families considered ‘hardest to reach’.
• We have limited funding to support up to 20 partnerships across the UK, and no more than one expression of interest should be made per local authority area.

• Grants of between £50,000 - £500,000 awarded for projects lasting between 2 – 5 years
• The programme launched on 29 September 2010
• The programme will run from 2010-2015
• You can make an application to the programme at any time until 31 March 2014.
• Can fund projects that tackle the causes of poverty and deprivation and bring about a long-term difference to the lives of the most disadvantaged people in the world.
• Open to UK based non-governmental organisations working with overseas partners in Africa, Asia (including the Pacific and Central Asian countries), the Middle East, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and parts of Eastern Europe.

• Two grant sizes available - £50,000 -£200,000 and £250,000 - £500,000
• Launched on 22 June 2010
• Deadline for outline proposal forms 29 February 2012

This programme aims to promote the inclusion of older people by targeting those individuals at greatest risk of exclusion or isolation.

We will support projects that:

• focus on older people aged 60 and over
• last from three to five years
• target older people at greatest risk of exclusion and isolation, who could be perceived as ‘hard to reach’
• involve older people in designing and running the project.

• Grant size available - £100,000 - £500,000
• Launched on 22 June 2010
• Deadline for outline proposal forms 27 January 2012

This programme aims to ensure young people at risk have the necessary support structures, capacity, improved personal development and improved skills to help them negotiate the transitions in their life.

We will support projects that:

• focus on young people aged between 8 and 20
• last from three to five years
• involve young people in designing, developing and running projects
• target young people ‘at risk’