With this funding The National Lottery Community Fund will help strengthen communities and improve lives across England. The funding is available to all communities. But the priority is the places, people and communities that need it most.
By ‘community’, The National Lottery Community Fund mean people living in the same area. Or people with similar interests or life experiences, even if they do not live in the same area.
The National Lottery Community Fund's priorities are to fund projects that:
And your project must achieve one of their missions. Which are to support communities to:
The National Lottery Community Fund are more likely to fund work that achieves one or two of these missions really well.
Funding starts at £20,001. But most applications we fund are for less than £500,000 in total.
Funding open to VCSE organisations for events raising awareness of early signs and symptoms of cancer, practical interventions to improve early diagnosis rates and support improvements in early cancer diagnosis.
Applications are open for Earth Raise, Big Give’s environmental match funding campaign giving environmental charities the chance to have donations DOUBLED for seven days, starting on World Earth Day (22–29 April 2026).
Grants for community groups across the UK to deliver activities for disadvantaged, vulnerable teenagers (13 years to 18 years), helping to improve mental health and wellbeing, and create positive life opportunities.
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