The Lottery Fund is in the process of changing the way it awards £35
millions' worth of grants to local groups. The 'Awards for All' scheme
offers individual grants ranging from £300 to £10,000 to voluntary and
community organisations, schools, parish & town councils and health
bodies. The proposed project must achieve at least one of the
following four criteria:
1. Giving people a better chance in life
2. Improving rural and urban environment
3. Strengthening communities
4. Making people and communities more active and healthier
The last deadline for the current scheme is 31 March 2009. For
information, go to www.awardsforall.org.uk or call 0845 600 20 40.
On 1 April 2009, the scheme changes.
Currently 'Awards for All' is a joint Lottery grants programme
supported by Arts Council England, Big Lottery Fund, Heritage Lottery
Fund and Sport England. But from 1 April 2009, each of the lottery
distributors supporting the scheme will have their own small grants
programmes up and running.
The same amount of money will be available overall, but the new
structure will be as follows:
>Big Lottery Fund will launch a new small grants programme on 1 April
2009 awarding grants of £300 to £10,000 to local communities in
2009-2010.
>Sport England will provide small grants for sports ranging from £300
- £10,000 from 1 April 2009.
>Arts Council England will provide small grants through their existing
'Grants for the arts' programme, supporting awards between £1,000 and
£100,000.
>Heritage Lottery Fund small grants will be provided through the
existing 'Your Heritage' (£3,000 to £50,000) and 'Young Roots (£3,000
to £25,000) schemes.
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For more information on the new grants schemes, contact the above
organisations directly:
Big Lottery Fund
www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
BIG advice line: 0845 4 10 20 30
Sport England
www.sportengland.org
08458 508 508
Arts Council
www.artscouncil.org.uk
0845 300 6200
Heritage Lottery Fund
www.hlf.org.uk
020 7591 6042
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JOIN THE BIG DEBATE:
If you want to give your opinion on the changes to the way grants are
awarded, public consultation will be held until February 28th 2009 via
the following sites:
http://www.facebook.com (Group BIG Mouth)
http://www.bebo.com (Profile SirCliveB)
www.youtube.com/biglotteryfundvideos
www.twitter.com/biglotteryfund
http://www.big-thinking.org.uk
