Deadline: 25-Jun-20
The National Lottery Community Fund is currently accepting applications for the Emerging Futures Fund to provide funding to organizations for looking at how things are changing, what is needed in this transition, and what is possible in the future.
To help communities shape the future, they’d like to give you funding to explore questions, use stories and create narratives about what your community has learned in how it’s responded to the challenges of COVID-19, and reflect on what else your community might want for the future. For example, this could be about looking at new ways of working or kinds of relationships that communities have set up through their crisis response.
National Lottery Community Fund wants communities to explore
- what they want to keep doing because it’s been working well;
- what they want to leave behind as they start thinking about moving into recovery and renewal;
- any new ideas that will help when it comes to rebuilding and renewal.
They’re looking to fund 3 different types of work
- Exploring new narratives, perspectives and community storytelling
- Community foresight and public imagination
- Investing in strong signals of transformation
Funding Information
Funding size: £20,000 – £50,000
The Community does not fund
- activities that generate profits for private gain
- religious activity or content (although they are able to fund religious organisations if they are providing benefit for the wider community)
- activities that replace government funding
- activities that benefit individuals, rather than the community
- costs you’ve already spent money on
- loan repayments.
Eligibility Criteria
- voluntary and community organisation
- registered charity
- charitable incorporated organisation
- social enterprise
- group of organisations, if they are led by a voluntary and community organisations or social enterprise
- Community Interest Company (with two or more directors, see the bullet points below for CICs they can’t fund).
They might sometimes fund unincorporated groups. But they’d normally expect the groups to use funding to incorporate and, where appropriate, register as a charity.
Ineligibility Criteria
- statutory bodies
- schools
- individuals
- sole traders
- organisations based outside the UK
- anyone who is applying on behalf of another organisation
- organisations that don’t have at least two people on their board or committee who aren’t married, in a civil partnership, in a long-term relationship, living together at the same address, or related by blood
- organisations that can pay profits to directors, shareholders or members (including Companies Limited by Shares and CIC’s limited by shares).
For more information, visit https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/emerging-futures-fund