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Basis

Funding support for voluntary and community organisations to help them become more effective.

Healthy Families: Child's Play

Support projects in Wales that make the link between play, nutrition and activity.

Closed programmes

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  • Grab a Grant Wales

    Grab a Grant

    Open Date: 9 January 2012
    Close Date: 3 February 2012

    Grab a Grant programme summary The Big Lottery Fund has teamed up with the South Wales Argus to award up to £25,000 worth of grants to community groups in South East...

  • Communities Living Sustainably England

    Communities Living Sustainably

    Open Date: 29 November 2011
    Close Date: 31 January 2012

    Summary This programme is now closed for applications. Decisions on development grants will be announced in March 2012. Communities Living Sustainably will fund partn...

  • Reaching Out: Empowering Young People Northern Ireland

    Reaching Out: Empowering Young People

    Open Date: 22 June 2010
    Close Date: 27 January 2012

    More young people at risk will have the necessary support structures, capacity, improved personal development and improved skills to help them negotiate the transitions in the...

  • Advice Services Fund England

    Advice Services Fund

    Open Date: 28 November 2011
    Close Date: 22 December 2011

    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...

  • Next Steps England

    Next Steps

    Open Date: 16 November 2011
    Close Date: 14 December 2011

    Programme summary BIG believes social investment has the potential to increase the amount of funding available to civil society organisations, bringing additional resour...

  • Millennium Now UK

    Millennium Now

    Open Date: 1 November 2011
    Close Date: 13 December 2011

    Read in Welsh Summary Note: Registration for the programme has now closed Millennium Now is unlike anything we have delivered before. Developed tog...

  • Impact of Alcohol Northern Ireland

    Impact of Alcohol

    Open Date: 14 December 2010
    Close Date: 14 November 2011

    Investing £10 million in Northern Ireland to address the harm caused by alcohol misuse

  • Sustainable Steps Wales

    Sustainable Steps

    Open Date: 30 September 2011
    Close Date: 4 November 2011

    Summary of the programme The Sustainable Steps programme is funded by money that has been dormant in bank and building society bank accounts across the UK for 15 ye...

  • Transforming Local Infrastructure England

    Transforming Local Infrastructure

    Open Date: 15 July 2011
    Close Date: 31 October 2011

    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...

  • The Silver Dreams Fund England

    The Silver Dreams Fund

    Open Date: 30 September 2011
    Close Date: 28 October 2011

    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...

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