Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The National Lottery Community Fund is requesting proposals for its Reaching Communities England Fund to strengthen communities and improve lives across England.
Objectives
- Your project must achieve one of their missions. Which are to support communities to:
- Come together, through inclusive places, spaces and activities (either physical or virtual). Especially for communities where people are least able to come together.
- Help children and young people thrive, by developing positive social and emotional skills.
- Be healthier, by addressing health inequalities. And helping prevent poor health.
- Be environmentally sustainable. By engaging with climate issues and having a positive environmental impact. And improving access to quality natural spaces.
Priorities
- Their priorities are to fund projects that:
- support places, people or communities experiencing poverty, disadvantage or discrimination and
- support people and communities to shape the decisions that affect their lives.
Funding Information
- Funding starts at £20,001. But most applications they fund are for less than £500,000 in total.
- Duration: up to 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- You can apply if your organisation serves communities in England and is a:
- constituted voluntary or community organisation
- registered charity
- charitable incorporated organisation (CIO)
- not-for-profit company limited by guarantee
- community interest company (CIC)
- school
- statutory or public body (including local authorities, town, parish or community councils)
- community benefit society (registered with the Financial Conduct Authority)
- co-operative society (registered with the Financial Conduct Authority).
- Partnerships or groups of organisations can also apply as long as all of the partner organisations are one of the types listed above.
Ineligibility Criteria
- They cannot accept applications from:
- individuals or sole traders
- organisations based outside the UK
- companies that can pay profits to directors, shareholders, or members, including companies limited by shares
- organisations who are currently applying to another of our funds for the same project, during the same period
- organisations applying on behalf of another organisation (unless youre applying together as a partnership).
For more information, visit National Lottery Community Fund.