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You can apply for funding from the following programmes.  

Awards for All England
Area: England
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: £300   Maximum grant: £10,000
Description: We can fund projects that enable people to take part in art, sport, heritage and community activities, as well as projects that promote education, the environment and health.

Awards for All Northern Ireland
Area: Northern Ireland
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: £500   Maximum grant: £10,000
Description: The main aim of this programme is to fund projects which involves bringing people together to enjoy a range of arts, sport and heritage related activities.

Awards for All Scotland
Area: Scotland
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: £500   Maximum grant: £10,000
Description: Funds are available for activities which bring people together, improve quality of life, increase involvement and help groups to become well organised.

Awards for All Wales
Area: Wales
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: £500   Maximum grant: £5,000
Description: Awards for All Wales is a grants programme set up to help small groups. It is supported by the Big Lottery Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

BASIS programme
Area: England
Closing date: 27 August 2008
Minimum grant: £10,001   Maximum grant: £500,000 for projects within one region (£750,000 for England-wide projects)
Description: The BASIS programme aims to improve the infrastructure support available to all voluntary and community sector organisations in England.

Changing Spaces
Area: England
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant:                Maximum grant:
Description: We are making up to £234 million available, until 2009,  to help communities in England improve their environment.

Fair Share
Area: UK
Closing date: 31 December 2013
Minimum grant: £5,000 (with some flexibility)   Maximum grant: £250,000 (with some flexibility)
Description: Jointly funded by the New Opportunities Fund and Community Fund, Fair Share is targeting 77 areas across the UK.

Family Learning
Area: England
Closing date: 29 August 2008
Minimum grant: £10,000   Maximum grant: £500,000
Description: Family Learning will help parents to understand more about how their children learn.

Growing Community Assets
Area: Scotland
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: £10,000   Maximum grant: £1 million
Description: By investing in Growing Community Assets we want to help local communities become stronger and more sustainable by obtaining or developing assets.

Healthy Families: Child's Play
Area: Wales
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: £250,000   Maximum grant: £1 million
Description: Through the Healthy Families Initiative, BIG wants to promote healthy and active lifestyles amongst children and families.

Investing In Communities
Area: Scotland
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: £10,000   Maximum grant: £1 million
Description: We want to invest money to bring real improvements to communities and to the lives of people most in need.

Investing In Ideas
Area: Scotland
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: £500   Maximum grant: £10,000
Description: Investing in Ideas will provide £4.6 million to test and develop ideas that could eventually become fully-fledged projects.

Life Transitions
Area: Scotland
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: £10,000   Maximum grant: £1 million
Description: Life Transitions is about supporting people at times of change in their lives. People face changes at many stages in their lives.

Live and Learn
Area: Northern Ireland
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: See below   Maximum grant: See below
Description: This is one of several new programmes valued at £90 million being launched by the Big Lottery Fund in Northern Ireland in 2006.

myplace
Area: England
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: £1 million   Maximum grant: £5 million
Description: £160m will be available in year one of which up to £50 million is available through the Fastrack route.

Parks for People
Area: England
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: £250,000   Maximum grant: £5 million
Description: This three-year joint initiative between Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big Lottery Fund (BIG) helps with the restoration and regeneration of public parks and gardens.

People and Places
Area: Wales
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: £5001   Maximum grant: £1 million
Description: People and Places aims to bring people together to make their communities stronger and to improve their rural and urban environments.

Reaching Communities: England
Area: England
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: £10,000   Maximum grant: £500,000
Description: Reaching Communities, is a demand led England wide programme that will provide funding to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need.

Reaching Communities: Northern Ireland
Area: Northern Ireland
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: £100,000   Maximum grant: £500,000
Description: Reaching Communities Northern Ireland makes grants to voluntary and community-led organisations.

Research programme
Area: UK
Closing date: 30 March 2009
Minimum grant:                Maximum grant:
Description: The programme will be open for applications by the end of 2007. The Big Lottery Fund will provide up to £25 million in the UK.

Safe and Well
Area: Northern Ireland
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: Stage two: £600,000   Maximum grant: Stage one: £50,000 Stage two: £1 million
Description: The Safe and Well programme has a two stage application process.

Supporting 21st Century Life
Area: Scotland
Closing date: See programme details
Minimum grant: £10,000   Maximum grant: £1 million
Description: Supporting 21st Century Life will help address these issues by funding projects that enable people and communities.

Young People's Fund: The Big Deal
Area: Northern Ireland
Closing date: 30 September 2009
Minimum grant: £500   Maximum grant: £2,500
Description: The Big Deal is a £4m programme, run by an award partner as part of the Young People’s Fund programme in Northern Ireland.

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