Reaching Communities England

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:

• support places, people or communities experiencing poverty, disadvantage or discrimination
  and
• support people and communities to shape the decisions that affect their lives.

And 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.

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.