Big Lottery Fund

The BIG funded community based programmes below all aim to bring your local community together and improve the lives of the people that live within it.

2014 Communities

Area: Scotland

Grants: £300 - £2000. 2014 Communities offers grants to local sports clubs, voluntary and community organisations, community councils and schools.

Awards for All England

Areas: England

Grants: £300 - £10,000. The Awards for All England programme aims to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need.

Awards for All Northern Ireland

Areas: Northern Ireland

Grants: £500 - £10,000

The Awards for All Northern Ireland programme aims to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need.

Awards for All Scotland

Areas: Scotland

Grants: £500 - £10,000. Awards for All gives money to projects that encourage people to take part in arts, sport and heritage.

Awards for All Wales

Areas: Wales

Grants: £500 - £5,000

The Awards for All Wales programme aims to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need.

Big Local Trust

Areas: England

Grants: £1 million - £2 million

An independent charitable trust that will support funding projects in deprived neighbourhoods

Community Wildlife

Area:UK

Grant: £300 - £10,000. This programme will fund projects that bring local people together to discover, enjoy or protect the wildlife in their local area.

Heroes Return

Areas: UK

Grants: £150 - £5,500

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.

Investing in Communities

Area:Scotland

Grants: £ 10,000 - £1 million. Bringing real improvements to communities, tackling need and addressing inequalities.

The People's Millions

Areas: UK

Amount: £3.8 million for 2010.

This programme is closed for new applications.

This exciting partnership between the Big Lottery Fund and ITV in which viewers vote for the project they want to receive funding.

Reaching Communities: England

Areas:England

Grants: £10,000 - £500,000

BIG aims to fund projects that respond to needs identified by communities, and those that fund projects that help those most in need.

Village SOS

Areas: UK

Grants: Up to

This programme is closed for new applications.

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.