With Village SOS, BIG and the BBC have joined forces to bring new life to UK villages.
In this section you can read about our past grants programmes and search for any grant we have given since 1995
With Village SOS, BIG and the BBC have joined forces to bring new life to UK villages.

People’s Million's is a partnership between Big and ITV where viewers vote for funding for projects.
Search grants awarded by BIG, New Opportunities Fund and Community Fund.

This programme helped to make a lasting imporvement to the natural environment.
Summary This programme is now closed for applications. Decisions on development grants will be announced in March 2012. Communities Living Sustainably will fund partn...
Summary This programme is closed for new applications The Government has made up to £16.8 million for a programme called the Advice Services Fund to supp...
Programme summary BIG believes social investment has the potential to increase the amount of funding available to civil society organisations, bringing additional resour...
Read in Welsh Summary Note: Registration for the programme has now closed Millennium Now is unlike anything we have delivered before. Developed tog...
Summary The Office for Civil Society (OCS) has made up to £30 million available in short-term funding, to provide better support for front line civil society organisa...
Summary of the programme The Silver Dreams Fund is the first of the Big Lottery Fund’s dedicated investments in older people in England, and is in association...
Supporingt inspiring business ideas that will bring people together in villages across the UK and support activities and enterprises that will tackle the challenges they face.
Helping people become more confident in and more aware of how to take control of their finances
Helping young people avoid pathways into offending
Amount: £3.6 million for 2011. This exciting partnership between the Big Lottery Fund and ITV in which viewers vote for the project they want to receive funding.