BIG LOTTERY FUND

Jonathan Clark, Victoria Bruce

East of England Regional Team

“BIG Lottery Fund Programmes”

BIG introduction:

Formed through the merger of the Community Fund and the New Opportunities Fund

Responsible for distributing half of the money the National Lottery raises for good causes

Annual awards budget of £630 million

Our Mission: “to bring real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need”

BIG centres:London centre Chief Executive office F&CS Directors office Policy and Partnerships Communications London regional office

Country offices Scotland (Glasgow) Northern Ireland(Belfast) Wales (Cardiff and Newtown)

Birmingham centreFinance and CorporateServices Operations West Midlands regional office

Newcastle centreOperations North East regional office

Regional OfficesNorth West (Manchester)Yorkshire and Humber(Leeds)East Midlands (Nottingham) East (Cambridge) South East (Guildford) South West (Exeter)

Arts - 4.7p

Her itage - 4.7pPr izes - 50p

BIG LOTTERY FUND - 14p

Lottery tax - 12p

Camel ot - 5pRetail ers - 5p

Sports - 4.7p

The Lottery Pound

The funding framework: Health, Education, Environment and Charitable Purposes PURPOSES

THEMES

OUTCOMES

Community learning and creating opportunity

Promoting community safety and cohesion

Promoting well being

People having

better chances in life, with better

access to training and development to improve their

life skills

Stronger

communities, with more citizens,

working together to tackle their problems

Improved rural and

urban environments,

which communities are better able to access and enjoy

Healthier and more active people and

communities

Project Outcomes:

The direct difference your services will make to the

people or organisations your project will benefit

Outcomes should be SMART

“Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-based”

Guidance is available on our website:

“Explaining the difference your project makes”

Before applying what do you need to think about?

The people and organisations who will mostly benefit from the programme and the needs they have

The difference you want your project to make and the outcomes you hope it will achieve

How your planned outcomes match the strategic outcomes of the BIG funding programme to which you are applying

What activities you want to undertake to meet those identified needs and deliver your planned outcomes

How much those activities will cost and how much you want from BIG

BIG Commitments

Supporting the voluntary and community sector

- 60/70% commitment

Adding value

- Additional to government

- Complimenting local plans, strategies and initiatives

Promoting partnership

- Encouraging partnership working

The Big Programme Overview

Breathing Places Changing Spaces Reaching Communities Awards for All Playful Ideas Family Learning The Big Boost and Young People’s Fund (2) Other BIG Programmes

What is it? UK-wide small grants programme developed in partnership with

the BBC to complement the BBC’s Breathing Places campaign that aims to put communities in touch with local wildlife habitats.

Phase 3 of the programme: launch on 12 Nov 07, closes on 18 Jan 08, decisions due in June 2008.

Grants available: £5 million will be available across England

Likely grant size: £1,000 - £10,000

Breathing Places

Eligible organisations:Likely to match Awards for All eligibility:

VCS, schools, statutory health bodies, parish councils and town councils can all apply.

Groups must be constituted and must have access to a bank account that requires at least two unrelated signatures

Phase 3 outcomes: The natural environment of breathing places is developed to encourage

plant life and animals.

People in local communities make more and better use of breathing places.

People in local communities are more engaged in developing and maintaining breathing places.

Breathing Places

Breathing Places: examples in Herts

St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Bishops Stortford Grant to develop an underused area in their school grounds into a sustainable, natural resource to be used by pupils, parents and visitors.

Friends of the Nickey Line, Hemel Hempstead Grant to conserve and enhance the ‘Nickey Line’, an old and disused eight-mile railway track running from Hemel Hempstead to Harpenden for the benefit of the local community.

Rhodes Birthplace Trust, East Herts Grant to transform a piece of unused land into a wildlife and sensory garden. Children from the Specific Learning Difficulties Resource Centre at the local primary school will be involved.

Changing SpacesWhat is it?

Overall outcome: "improved rural and urban environments, which communities are better able to access and enjoy“

£234 million available in England

Projects will include:

physical improvements to local green spaces, community gardens, allotments, footpaths and nature reserves

local food growing and retailing, box schemes, farmers markets and composting

access to the natural environment through better information and signposting

educational projects which raise awareness of local environments and wider environmental issues.

Changing Spaces How will it be delivered?

Portfolios: strategic schemes made up of a number of projects

The five successful portfolios announced on 20 August were: Crime Concern, The Field Studies Council, Imperial College, Plunkett Foundation and Places for People

Award Partners: organisations delivering a grant scheme for BIG

The five Award Partners will be ready to start making grants in early 2008. Three Award Partners have already been announced:

RSWT’s ‘Local Food’ scheme (£50m): to support growing, processing and distributing local food, as well as other activities e.g. composting.

Groundwork’s ‘Community Spaces’ scheme (£50m): to create better local environments and increase access to quality local spaces.

Natural England’s ‘Access to Nature’ scheme (£25m): to encourage more people from all backgrounds to enjoy the natural environment.

Reaching Communities

What is it?

Aim:

“To bring real improvements to communities and to the lives of people most in need, supporting projects that respond to locally identified needs and involve communities in delivering projects”

Projects must enable at least one or more of the four BIG outcomes to be achieved

2 stage process – outline proposal stage and full application stage

How much is available? Awards of between £10,001 - £500,000

Funding for up to 5 years

Reaching Communities

Who can apply? Local groups or larger organisations working at a community level, meeting identified needs

Legally constituted organisations

Registered charities, statutory bodies (including schools), charitable or not-for-profit companies, social enterprises

Awards for AllWhat is it?

A rolling programme• you can apply at any time

A fund for small grants• from £300 to £10,000

Hear within eight weeks• money up-front spend within 1 year

Your contribution• in kind or cash

Straightforward monitoring of awards• compliance will be essential

Awards for All Outcomes

Extending access and participation

helping more people to become actively in local groups & projects

Increasing skills and creativitysupporting activities which help develop people and groups, encourage talent & raise standards

Improving the quality of life

local projects improving people's opportunities, welfare, environment or local facilities

Projects must achieve at least one of these outcomes

Playful Ideas

What is it?

Aims to support innovation and new ways of providing children’s play

Demand-led rolling programme with the final application deadline 31 December 2007

“a creative and novel approach to addressing an identified need within the field of children’s play”

2 stage application process: outline proposal form and full application

Playful Ideas

Grants available:

up to 5 years revenue and capital funding grants of between £10,000 - £250,000

Eligible organisations:

registered charities voluntary or community groups charitable or not for profit companies town and parish councils social enterprises

Projects funded through Playful Ideas

Milton Keynes Play Association - £201,402 The scheme gives local children the chance to bring play memories back to life. The

project works with both children and adults, exploring the adult’s memories of childhood and their most exciting play experiences working together to recreate those play activities.

Haven House Foundation - £164,634 A project to provide play services for life-limited children in their own homes through

trained play workers and also provide specialist toys and other equipment on free loan to families

Special Toys Educational Postal Service - £163,375 The scheme purchases multifunction toys and provides a free free postal service to

loan them to disabled children throughout England

Family Learning

What is it?

Enjoyable learning activities to improve skills and knowledge of family members

Learning activities where children and parents learn jointly and where there are clear learning outcomes for both children and parents

Learning that allows parents to learn more about how their children learn and encourages both to pursue further learning

Family is defined as ‘at least one parent or other adult carer and at least one child up to the age of 16’

Family Learning

How much is available? Grants available between £10,000 and £500,000 for

projects that last from one to five years

Who can apply?

Registered charities

Voluntary and community organisations

Charitable or not for profit companies

Social enterprises

Statutory bodies including schools )

Private sector organisations ) must partner with a VCS org

Funded under Family Learning

Awarded £159,221

Project to deliver five weekly sessions during term-time across various locations for families with pre-school children

Parents and children together developing skills in story telling, cooking, art and crafts while improving literacy and numeracy

Families given fact sheets at the end of each session so they can continue what they have learnt at home and share with other family members.

Home-Start Chorley and South Ribble

The Big Boost (awards to young individuals) Supporting ideas that benefit the community £250 to £1000 (11-16) and £500 to £5000 (16-25) More info: www.thebigboost.org.uk (closes 1st November 2007)

Young Peoples Fund (2) £76m available to be divided equally between national and local projects Focus to be on youth inclusion and will only fund youth led projects Projects must help achieve the ‘Every Child Matters’ outcomes Due to launch in December 2007 (national grants) and April 2008 (local grants)

Other funding for Children & Young People

Other BIG Programmes

Advice PlusFunding organisations providing advice on rights and responsibilities BASIS (2)Funding VCS infrastructure Community AssetsFunding refurbishment of local authority assets to be transferred to VCS Community LibrariesFunding refurbishment of local library facilities InternationalFunding projects that tackle causes of poverty and deprivation around the world

ResearchFunding social and medical research in the UK

BIG Public Involvement

Peoples Millions in association with ITV

Living Landmarks

BIG Success Story

What difference can funding make?

Mohammed Alam

North Herts Minority Ethnic Forum

BIG

Question & Answer

Session

For more information

Outline proposal forms and guidance notes from:

The BIG Advice Line – 0845 4 10 20 30

www.biglotteryfund.org.uk

Awards for All advice from:

The A4A Advice Line 0845 600 20 40

www.awardsforall.org.uk