People and Communities Grant Programme – United Kingdom

Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity

Apply for funding to deliver new or existing activity or to change and adapt to new and future challenges, including the current cost-of-living crisis.

Funding Information

• Total available: £57 million
• Funding size: £10001 to £500000

Area: Northern Ireland

The projects they fund

• They fund projects that work to make positive changes in their community – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.
• They’re looking for projects that:
  • help people make changes to improve their lives
  • help communities build on their strengths and share things they’ve learned.
• They can also support you to change and adapt to new and future challenges, including the current cost-of-living crisis.

What can you spend the money on?

• They can fund:
  • staff salaries
  • training
  • volunteer expenses
  • equipment
  • premises costs
  • evaluation
  • overheads.
• They cannot fund:
  • any activities or items you spend money on before they give you a final decision about your application
  • activities outside of the UK
  • fundraising activities
  • second-hand vehicles.

Eligibility Criteria

You can apply if:

• Unregistered voluntary or community organisation
• Registered charity (unincorporated)
• Charitable incorporated organisation (CIO)
• Not-for-profit company

Criteria

A good application should be:

• Community-led
  • They believe that people understand what’s needed in their communities better than anyone. So it’s important to them that you involve your community in the design, development and delivery of the activities you’re planning.
• Strengths-based
  • They’d like to support people and communities to build on the knowledge, skills and experience they already have, to make the changes they want.
• Connected
  • They want to know that you’ve a good understanding of other activities and services in your community. They’d like to see how you’ll compliment these. So you can add value to what’s already there.

For more information, visit National Lottery Community Fund.