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The following programmes are now closed for applications.

Active Futures
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 30 April 2005
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: £5.5 million was available for partnerships supporting young people between 17 & 24 to get active.

Activities for Young People
Area: UK
Closing date: 20 December 2002
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: Funding was available to fund outdoor adventure activities for young people between 14 and 18 years old, who show signs of disaffection with education and training.

Better Off
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 1 July 2003
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: The £10 million Better Off programme will develop new kinds of community rehabilitation for people who misuse or have misused drugs.

Breathing Places
Area: UK
Closing date: 18 January 2008
Minimum grant: £1,000   Maximum grant: £10,000
Description: The Breathing Places grants programme is a UK wide small grants programme, developed in partnership with the BBC. It complements the BBC’s Breathing Places campaign.

Cancer Care Scotland
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 28 March 2003
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: In Scotland, the Living with Cancer programme allocated funding to Health Boards throughout the length and breadth of the country for prevention, detection, treatment.

Community Access to Lifelong Learning
Area: UK
Closing date: 4 May 2001
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: The programme has funded the development and running of a nationwide network of ICT learning centres that have provided new learning opportunities for people.

Coronary Heart Disease / Stroke / Cancer
Area: Scotland, Northern Ireland
Closing date: 31 January 2003
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: In Northern Ireland funding is for projects that encourage people to stop smoking, eat healthy food, exercise and be safe in the sun.

Digitisation
Area: UK
Closing date: 1 December 2000
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: Digitisation helped to 'unlock' the learning resources of libraries, archives, museums, galleries, colleges and universities free of charge on the Internet.

Dynamic, Inclusive Communities
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 1 August 2008
Minimum grant: £10,000   Maximum grant: £1 million
Description: Dynamic, Inclusive Communities is the Big Lottery Fund’s £20 million commitment to help build and strengthen the voluntary and community sector.

Funding Facilitators Scotland
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 2 February 2002
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: The Fund has provided funds to employ five Funding Development Officers who are based within the Scottish Out of School Care Network (SOSCN).

GM04
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 31 August 2005
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: The aim of the pilot scheme is to shorten assessment times, boost success rates and reduce disappointment.

Green Spaces Scottish Land Fund Scheme
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 26 March 2006
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: This programme consists of three strands which aim to assist communities to plan and prepare bids to acquire/manage land and land assets.

Green Spaces and Sustainable Communities
Area: UK
Closing date: 18 March 2005
Minimum grant: £2000   Maximum grant: £100,000
Description: This programme supported projects designed to help urban and rural communities throughout the UK understand and improve their natural environment, focusing on disadvantage.

Growing Community Assets
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 1 August 2008
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 Living Centres
Area: UK
Closing date: 21 January 2002
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: The aim is to promote good health in its broadest sense, to reduce health inequalities and to improve the health of the most disadvantaged sections of the population.

Heroes Return
Area: UK
Closing date: 31 March 2005
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: All WW2 veterans from the UK, Channel Islands and EIRE were able to apply for funding to visit the places where they saw active service.

Home Front Recall
Area: UK
Closing date: 31 May 2005
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: Home Front Recall is part of the Big Lottery Fund's Veterans Reunited programme. It is a joint funding scheme from Big Lottery Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

ICT Training for Public Library Staff
Area: UK
Closing date: 15 February 2002
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: This programme is providing training in the use of ICT for all 40,000 public library staff across the UK.

ICT Training for Teachers and School Librarians
Area: UK
Closing date: 1 December 2003
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: ICT training for teachers and school librarians programme was launched in 1999 and schools and teachers throughout the UK had until 2002 to sign up for training.

International Communities
Area: UK
Closing date: 30 April 2008
Minimum grant: £50,000   Maximum grant: £500,000
Description: We aim to fund effective projects that tackle the causes of poverty and deprivation and bring about a long term difference to the lives of disadvantaged people.

International Small Grants
Area: UK
Closing date: 29 June 2007
Minimum grant: £500   Maximum grant: £10,000
Description: £500,000 is available for small and medium-sized UK non-governmental organisations working with partners overseas.

International Strategic
Area: UK
Closing date: 15 February 2008
Minimum grant: £1 million   Maximum grant: £5 million
Description: The International programme is Big Lottery Fund’s way of helping disadvantaged communities overseas.

Investing In Communities
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 1 August 2008
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.

Legacy Trust UK
Area: UK
Closing date: 20 November 2007
Minimum grant: 29 million   Maximum grant: 29 million
Description: What is the Legacy Trust UK? Legacy Trust UK has been established as a charitable trust to use funding endowed by the Big Lottery Fund, Arts...

Life Transitions
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 1 August 2008
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.

Living Landmarks
Area: UK
Closing date: 6 January 2006
Minimum grant: £10 million   Maximum grant: £50 million
Description: An exciting new UK wide programme that will see communities working together to improve their quality of life and their environment through funding major capital projects.

New Opportunities for PE and Sport
Area: UK
Closing date: 26 March 2004
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: Local education authorities were tasked with delivering this programme in their areas, and have been asked to submit applications for the grant scheme in two stages.

New Opportunities for PE and Sport Activities Programme
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 29 March 2004
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: This had two strands - 'activities' and 'active steps'.

New Opportunities for Quality Childcare
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 30 June 2005
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: £14.5m was available to support capital and revenue costs for children aged 0-14 years (16 with special needs).

Out of School Hours Childcare
Area: UK
Closing date: 15 July 2003
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: In Wales, the out of school hours childcare programme was allocated £14.3 million to create 22,000 childcare places.

Out of School Hours Learning
Area: UK
Closing date: 1 March 2001
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: The programme has targeted approximately 12,000 schools across the UK. These schools are engaged in a variety of activities including drama, dance, mentoring schemes, voluntee...

Out of School Hours Learning - School Sport Co-ordinators
Area: UK
Closing date: 31 March 2003
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: The aim of the programme is to resource activities that promote effective links between sport and learning which aim to motivate pupils.

Out of School Hours Learning - Summer Schools
Area: UK
Closing date: 3 September 2001
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: The government has been funding literacy and numeracy summer schools and it is the success of these that has led to the extra funding given to the Fund.

Palliative Care Scotland
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 1 May 2002
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: The programme funded schemes providing palliative care and support and information services for children and adults with cancer and other life threatening conditions.

The People's 50 Million
Area: UK
Closing date: 10 December 2007
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: The People's 50 Million contest was a public vote which saw one project of national importance win a grant of £50 million.

The People's Millions
Area: UK
Closing date: 15 May 2008
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: £50 000 + VAT
Description: The People’s Millions is an exciting partnership between the Big Lottery Fund and ITV in which viewers vote for the project they want to receive funding.

Peoples Network
Area: UK
Closing date: 13 April 2004
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: This programme has provided funding to all library services throughout the UK to put computers with internet access in all 4,000 UK public libraries.

Positive Activities for Young People
Area: UK
Closing date: 17 August 2004
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: The Department for Education and Skills and New Opportunities Fund are joined forces with Youth Justice Board, Home Office and Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Poverty and Disadvantage
Area: UK
Closing date: 5 April 2002
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: £1 million
Description: Supports projects which improve the quality of life of people and communities who are disadvantaged by poverty

Primetime
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 24 August 2007
Minimum grant: £100,000   Maximum grant: £500,000
Description: Primetime is an exciting new initiative for the over 50s that the Big Lottery Fund in Scotland is running in partnership with BBC Scotland.

Renewable Energy
Area: UK
Closing date: 31 July 2006
Minimum grant: £50,000   Maximum grant: £500,000
Description: As a part of transforming communities we have funding available for renewable energy projects. The programme is UK-wide.

Supporting 21st Century Life
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 1 August 2008
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.

Their Past Your Future
Area: UK
Closing date: 12 November 2004
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: Their Past Your Future is a £10 million programme focuses on schools, intergenerational learning, and learning through the resources offered by museums and libraries.

Transforming Waste
Area: UK
Closing date: 1 August 2005
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: This programme is designed to support community based recycling, reuse, composting, awareness raising and capacity building.

Transforming Your Space Scotland
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 31 March 2005
Minimum grant: none   Maximum grant: none
Description: The programme follows on from the success of the Fresh Futures grant programme.

Young People's Fund: Scotland
Area: Scotland
Closing date: 31 August 2007
Minimum grant: £5,000   Maximum grant: £1 million
Description: The Young People's Fund in Scotland is a grant programme to help young people aged 11-25 learn new things and take part in healthy and positive activities.

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