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Reaching Communities: Northern Ireland

Voluntary and community organisations get funding to allow people the opportunities to achieve their potential.

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Community Assets

Community empowerment is on the cards for 37 projects across England.

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Grants search

Search grants awarded by BIG, New Opportunities Fund and Community Fund.

Investing In Communities

Investing money into communities to make real improvements to the lives of people most in need.

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Healthy Families: Childs Play

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

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Search for Case Studies

Here you can browse case studies about just some of the grants that Big Lottery Fund has made.

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  • Heroes Return UK
    Heroes Return
    Close Date: 31 January 2011

    All WW2 veterans from the UK, Channel Islands and EIRE are able to apply for funding to visit the places where they saw active service.

  • Village SOS UK
    Village SOS
    Close Date: 14 August 2009

    An exciting rural initiative from the BIG Lottery Fund and the BBC, challenging villages across the UK to come up with brilliant ideas for brand new businesses.

  • myplace England
    myplace
    Close Date: 29 June 2009

    Amount: £190 million. myplace funded groups that had the vision and drive to work with young people to deliver a world class place for them to go.

  • Research programme UK
    Research programme
    Close Date: 29 May 2009

    Grants: Total up to £20 million. The aim of the Research programme is to influence local and national policy and practice.

  • The People's Millions UK
    The People's Millions
    Close Date: 15 May 2009

    Amount: £5.5 million for 2008. This exciting partnership between the Big Lottery Fund and ITV in which viewers vote for the project they want to receive funding.

  • Healthy Families: Child's Play Wales
    Healthy Families: Child's Play
    Close Date: 6 March 2009

    Grants: £250,000 - £1 million. This programme focuses on new approaches to structured play, and projects that apply must come up with creative play schemes.

  • Breathing Places UK
    Breathing Places
    Close Date: 6 February 2009

    Grants:£1,000 - £5,000 Breathing Places is a small grants programme developed in partnership with the BBC. It gives funding to small groups that improve the local...

  • Safe and Well Northern Ireland
    Safe and Well
    Close Date: 29 October 2008

    Amount: £18 million. Safe and Well encouraged communities to work together to tackle health and safety in Northern Ireland.

  • Young People’s Fund 2: Local grants England
    Young People’s Fund 2: Local grants
    Close Date: 16 October 2008

    Amount: Up to £38 million. The programme focussed on changing the lives of young people aged 10 to 18 and also supported projects working with people up to the age of 25

  • Live and Learn Northern Ireland
    Live and Learn
    Close Date: 30 September 2008

    Amount: £18 million. Live and Learn aimed to increase learning opportunities and promote wellbeing among Northern Irelands most disadvantaged communities.

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