06 January 2009Awards for All: From April 2006
The lottery scheme, which offers grants of £300 to £10,000 for local community projects, has made changes to its rules from 1 April 2006. Firstly, the new upper limit for grants will be £10,000. The other major change is that it has identified five new priority outcomes (from a national list of nine) for targeting support in the south-east. The applicable priority outcomes are:
Outcome 1: increased understanding of different people, places, cultures in the local community (e.g. reminiscence and oral history projects, community festivals, community history exhibitions).
Outcome 4: increased use of outdoor community spaces (e.g. children’s play areas, allotments, public art projects, multi-use sports areas, wildlife areas).
Outcome 5: wider use of community buildings (e.g. the refurbishment of a kitchen for a lunch club, increasing uptake via publicity, a community café, a village film club).
Outcome 7: improved volunteering opportunities and support (e.g. training courses, volunteer recruitment campaigns, widening diversity, accreditation).
Outcome 8: increased community participation in creating healthier lifestyles (e.g. promotion of healthier eating, self-help groups, walking and cycling projects, anti-natal classes, well-being classes).
The scheme anticipates that about 50% of the programme spend will be available for projects that address priority outcomes and the remainder will be spent on projects that meet the programme’s aims in other ways.
For further information visit: www.awardsforall.org.uk
Big Lottery Fund: Reaching Communities
The new England-wide Lottery programme will provide funding to help improve local communities.
The main themes of the scheme are:
Applicants can be a:
Reaching Communities is a three-year programme and £100 million is available in 2006-07, with future budgets being set annually. Between 60 and 70% of this funding will be targeted directly at the voluntary and community sector.
Reaching Communities will give grants of £10,000 - £500,000, including a maximum of £50,000 for capital grants. A maximum overall project size of £750,000 and £200,000 for the total capital element within a project has been set. It will fund projects for up to five years.
The scheme has a two-stage application process – an outline bid must be submitted and accepted before a full application can be prepared.
For further information visit: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Kent External Funding Unit - Inside Track Magazine
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