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The Big Lottery Fund (BLF) is a new organisation that will hand out half the money to good causes from the National Lottery. BLF was created by the merging of the New Opportunities Fund and the Community Fund.

 

New Opportunities Fund Education Programmes

Big Lottery - update on their programmes.

 

The Big Lottery Fund is entering an exciting period of change as they begin to develop new programmes. 

 

During 2005, responding to the views given to them in their two consultations, and building on the achievements of programmes previously delivered by the Community Fund and New Opportunities Fund, they will introduce a new set of programmes and new approaches to funding. 

 

The new programmes and ways of funding will improve access to Lottery money, achieve our aim of tackling social disadvantage, and involve individuals and communities in bringing about positive social change.

 

To make way for their new programmes, from the middle of the year The Big Lottery Fund will wind down their existing programmes. 

 

The UK-wide Strategic grants, Research grants and International programmes will continue to accept applications until 31 May 2005 and continue to make grants until November 2005.

 

The Medium and Large grants programmes in England will continue to accept applications until 31 May 2005 and make grants until November 2005, except for applications for building work or property refurbishment that will cost more than £30,000.  Because these are more complicated to assess, all grant applications for building work or property refurbishment must be in by 31 March 2005

 

You will be able to download application forms from our website for these programmes until 31 March 2005.  After that, you can still get an application form up until the date the programmes close for applications, by calling the Big Advice Line (0845 4 10 20 30).

 

 

The UK wide strategic grants, Research grants and International grants programmes, and the Medium and Large grants programmes.

 

31 May 2005.  To get a form you will need to call the BIG Advice Line.

 

If you want to download a form from our website, the last day you will be able to do this will be 31 March 2005.  This is because The Big Lottery Fund have no way of ensuring that The Big Lottery Fund can inform you of the cut-off dates if you download an application form.

 

31 May 2005 - unless you are applying for a grant to do building work or to refurbish a property, when the last date you can send in an application is 31 March 2005.

 

It takes more time to assess these applications.

 

The Big Lottery Fund will only accept forms which are received before or on the deadline.  Please make sure you post your forms in good time.

 

If you want to make an application, The Big Lottery Fund recommend that you get an application form in good time.  The Big Lottery Fund are however keeping it open to allow you to get a replacement application form if you have lost your form and for last minute applications.  The mailing house will remind people of the deadline when they send out forms.

 

Our usual rules will apply. 

 

There is a checklist on the end of the form which sets out what you have to send with your application.  (Double check this to make sure that you enclose everything.)  If you omit anything, The Big Lottery Fund will write to you telling you what you have forgotten to send, giving you four weeks to send in the missing documents.

 

You will be able to apply for a grant to continue and develop a project already funded by the Big Lottery Fund if your current grant has less than twelve months to run on 31 May 2005.  (If you are applying to the Large or Medium programme in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, this date may be different.  Please call the appropriate office for advice.)

 

If you are applying to develop a project The Big Lottery Fund already fund, please remember that The Big Lottery Fund will ask you to contribute at least 25 per cent of the cost from other sources.  The Big Lottery Fund will also only support your project for a maximum of six years. 

 

The Big Lottery Fund anticipate that they will receive a large number of applications in the last month of the programme, so they cannot guarantee our usual turnaround times.  Our last set of decisions in England will be in November 2005, so you will certainly have a decision by December 2005 in England.

 

Yes.

 

The Big Lottery Fund is a new distributor, and The Big Lottery Fund will have a set of new programmes distributing half of all Lottery funding.  The Big Lottery Fund need to look at our future funding for the voluntary and community sector and The Big Lottery Fund need to close all our existing programmes to make way for these new programmes.

 

The Young People's Fund programmes will still be open after 31 May 31 2005.  If your work fits that programme, you will still be able to apply to it.

 

The Big Lottery Fund expect to launch a further series of Big Lottery Fund programmes open to voluntary and community sector organisations in the summer and autumn of 2005.

 

New programmes will be launched incrementally.  The Big Lottery Fund expect to make some announcements about the new mix of programmes in early summer 2005.

 

2005 will inevitably be a transition year. It is important that The Big Lottery Fund get the mix of programmes right and that The Big Lottery Fund improve on our processes.  They will be in place for a number of years so we don't want to rush and repent at leisure.

 

The Big Lottery Fund will be launching an extensive publicity and outreach campaign to prepare for their launch.  Our website will also contain details.  You will also be able to contact your local Big Lottery Fund office.

 

We have given an undertaking that between 60 per cent and 70 per cent of BIG money will go to the voluntary and community sector and 30-40 per cent to the public sector and others.  It is absolutely appropriate for the Government to set out the strategic framework for the Fund, since we are an NDPB. We will then determine our own programmes and decide how they are delivered. We will, of course, want to work closely with the Government and other partners.

 

The Board will, quite properly, have the final say on priorities and programmes. The BLF have consulted widely on what these priorities should be.  Our website gives details of what the wide range of community and voluntary groups who answered our consultations suggested we do, and of what we are doing in response.

 

We expect to commit substantial sums to programmes or programme streams that will be "demand-led" and lightly prescribed. There will also be a range of national, strategic programmes.

 

Yes.  We attach great importance to the principles of open communication with voluntary and community sector organisations, of consultation and giving good notice of our intentions.  These announcements give voluntary bodies a long period of notice to make plans for applying for funds to the programmes which are closing, well in excess of the three months recommended in the compact.  We have consulted the voluntary sector both on how we should run our programmes in future and on the overall framework of future funding priorities.  We will continue to make every effort to keep the voluntary and community sector up to date with our timetables and intentions.

 

 

 

The Community Fund aim to give grants mainly to groups that help meet the needs of those at greatest disadvantage in society and also to improve the quality of life in the community.

 

The Community Fund want to target our funds as effectively as possible at both country and regional level to tackle disadvantage among those in greatest need. As we have less money than in the past, our programmes must work harder to do this. This means that your application will be more likely to succeed if it meets one or more of the priorities of the country or region to which you are applying. You can still receive a grant if you do not meet a priority.

 

This programme closes for England on 31 May 2005.

 

For further information, please contact the regional office on 0113 224 5311.

 

 

 

The Community Fund aim to give grants mainly to groups that help meet the needs of those at greatest disadvantage in society and also to improve the quality of life in the community.

 

The Community Fund want to target our funds as effectively as possible at both country and regional level to tackle disadvantage among those in greatest need. As we have less money than in the past, our programmes must work harder to do this. This means that your application will be more likely to succeed if it meets one or more of the priorities of the country or region to which you are applying. You can still receive a grant if you do not meet a priority.

 

This programme closes for England on 31 May 2005.

 

For further information, please contact the regional office on 0113 224 5311.

 

 

 

The Strategic grants programme provides large and medium-sized grants mainly to help meet the needs of those at greatest disadvantage in society and also to improve the quality of life in communities.
It funds projects that benefit people who live in either:

The Community Fund are, however, particularly keen to fund projects that will benefit as many people as possible by influencing practice or policy. This is because we wish to fund projects that will have an impact on the lives of the greatest number of disadvantaged people. And we believe this can best be achieved through projects that Influence practice and policy. 

The assessment criteria for influencing projects is now available within the Strategic Grants questions and answers section.

Influencing could be directed at both the voluntary and the statutory sectors. In this way strategic projects will benefit the widest number of disadvantaged people and have the long-term impact we are looking to achieve.

The Strategic grants brochure provides more detail upon this, and the Community Fund recommend that you read this before getting an application form.

Please also apply under the strategic grants programme if your organisation is:

The Community Fund want to fund projects that meet the needs of our six priority groups of beneficiaries and other disadvantaged people not covered by those groups.

This programme closes for England on 31 May 2005.

For further information please call the Strategic Grants team on 0115 934 2960.

 

The Community Fund aim to fund effective 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.

 

The Community Fund award grants to development organisations based in the UK, who are working in partnership with overseas organisations. For more information about the Community Funds geographical focus and funding priorities, please see the programme summary.

The Community Fund will fund projects up to five years. The minimum grant size is £60,000. So far we have funded projects worth a total of £152.2 million. At present, six per cent of the Fund's total grant budget is allocated to International Grants.

Important notice:

This programme closes for applications on 31 May 2005.
You must make sure your application reaches our office before 5pm, 31 May 2005.

For further information please call the International Grants team on 020 7211 3821

Our main aim is to fund high quality medical and social research in the areas of health and social well being.

The Community Fund make grants directly to charities and voluntary sector organisations. Because many of these organisations are not able to carry out research by themselves, we want to promote partnerships between the voluntary sector and the research community.

The main theme of any application must be to promote social inclusion. The Community Fund particularly welcome applications that address the social inclusion of the following groups:

If your project does not involve one of these priority groups, you can still get a grant.

 

For more information, please contact the regional office on 0113 224 5311.

 

Football Foundation:

 

Total Allocated Budget:	£30,000,000
Application Closing Date:	01 September 2005
Initiative:	Education
Country Allocated Budget:	£30,000,000

 

     

The Fund have delegated funding to the Football Foundation to support capital projects for schools and the community. The Football Foundation will accept applications from schools and LEA's for innovative football projects that fulfil the aims of the Foundation and the Fund. Funding will be distributed to successful applicants on an individual project, and for more information and details of how to make an application please visit: www.footballfoundation.org.uk or telephone (freephone) 0800 027 7766.

 

Their Past Your Future is a £10 million programme focuses on schools, intergenerational learning, and learning through the resources offered by museums, libraries and archives.

 

Big Lottery Fund is working with a range of key partners from the education and museum, libraries and archives sector. The programme will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the events that led to the end of the Second World War and encourage younger generations to learn from the experiences of those who lived through the Second World War.

 

Their Past Your Future is providing up to £2.3 million in National Lottery Funding to local education authorities across the UK (education and library boards in Northern Ireland). This funding will enable schools to undertake activities that enable young people to engage in commemoration and reflect upon the impact of the Second World War on the UK and the people who lived through it. The types of activity that can be funded include UK and overseas commemorative visits, events and exhibitions in local schools or the local community, activities that link young people with veterans and others who lived through the Second World War, and creating learning resources. Schools and education authorities are encouraged to make use of a range of support materials in developing projects. 

 

Their Past Your Future is also providing up to £7 million to the museums, libraries and archives sector to support exhibitions commemorating the Second World War and develop related educational programmes aimed at schools and the wider public. Our strategic partners for this part of the initiative are the Imperial War Museum, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (England), Scottish Museums Council, National Library of Wales and Northern Ireland Museums Council.

 

 

 

Heroes Return provides funding for veterans who wish to return overseas to the place where they saw active service during the Second World War. If you are a UK resident and served with, or alongside, British and Allied Armed Forces in the Second World War and want to find out more about the funding, please call our helpline on 0845 410 2030.

 

The Fund has been working with the Confederation of British Service and Ex-Service Organisations (COBSEO), the Ministry of Defence (MOD), the Department of Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS, the Department for Education and Skills, the Imperial War Museum and others to develop a new funding programme, Veterans Reunited. The Heroes Return scheme is part of this new programme and will ensure that veterans have the funding they need to commemorate the events of the Second World War, and to ensure that new generations can learn from their experience.

 

The Big Lottery Fund recognises that 2004 and 2005 are special years for many Second World War veterans when we will be commemorating the 60th anniversary of the momentous events that led to the end of the Second World War: the Anzio Landings, the campaigns in North Africa, the Eastern Fleets engagements with Japanese installations, D-Day and the Normandy Campaign, the landings in Southern France, the campaigns in Burma, the Battle for Italy, Operation Market Garden and the Rhine Crossing, the liberation of the Channel islands, VE and VJ Day.

 

The Heroes Return scheme will fund travel costs for veterans (including former prisoners of war), their spouses and/or widows and their present-day carers to visit the countries where they served. In partnership with the Imperial War Museum, we are helping veterans record their experiences on these visits so that new generations can learn from them.

 

If you are a UK resident and served with, or alongside, British and Allied Armed Forces in the Second World War and want to find out more about the funding, please call our helpline on 0845 410 2030.

 

 

 

The vital contribution of groups of WW2 home front veterans, through the Second World War, will be marked in the run up to the 60th anniversary of the ending of the war, through a multi-million Lottery funding scheme Home Front Recall.

 

Home Front Recall is part of the Big Lottery Fund's Veterans Reunited programme. It is a joint funding scheme from Lottery good cause distributors the Big Lottery Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

 

The scheme provides small grants to fund activities across the UK to commemorate the part played by those on the home front during the war years - among them fire fighters, auxiliary services, Bevin Boys, dock workers, seamen, nurses - and people in many other roles including Britain's code-breakers. The scheme also provides funding for veterans who wish to organise or take part in reunions or commemorative events in the UK.

 

The scheme will fund street parties, services, reunions, parades, and other activities that will allow communities to come together and ensure that all generations can commemorate and remember the contribution that the people of Britain made in the Second World War. Further information and application pack are available by phoning 08457 458 458.

 

 

 

Total Allocated Budget:	£12,750,000
Application Closing Date	See Further Information
Initiative:	Education
Country Allocated Budget:	England - £12,000,000  Wales - £750,000

                 

                

The Fund have joined forces with the DfES, Youth Justice Board, Home Office and DCMS, to combine existing Connexions Summer Plus and Splash schemes and launch a new scheme from this summer to give greater help and support to vulnerable young people. The Fund have contributed to a single pot of funding for year 1 of this programme. Funding will be routed through the Government Offices for the Regions, who have identified a range of lead organisations at the local level to oversee the programme.

 

 

 

Programme:	Transforming Waste
Total Allocated Budget:	£49,500,000
Application Closing Date:	See further information
Initiative:	Education
Country Allocated Budget:	England - £38,750,000
	Northern Ireland - £2,250,000
	Scotland - £5,250,000
	Wales - £3,250,000

 

 

Part of the Fund's transforming communities initiative, this is a delegated programme run on an open application basis. The award partner accepts applications from community groups, etc. The programme supports community recycling, reuse and composting projects to increase the amount of waste collected in deprived communities.