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The following programmes are now closed for applications.
Active England
Area: England
Closing date: 31 March 2004
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: Active England was a joint programme between New Opportunities Fund and Sport England which encouraged creative approaches to drive up physical activity levels.
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.
Advice Plus
Area: England
Closing date: 1 April 2008
Minimum grant: £10,000 Maximum grant: £500,000
Description: Advice Plus aims to help people in need access good quality advice on their legal rights and responsibilities, so that they can avoid or overcome disadvantage.
BASIS programme
Area: England
Closing date: 27 August 2008
Minimum grant: £10,001 Maximum grant: £500,000 for projects within one region (£750,000 for England-wide projects)
Description: The BASIS programme aims to improve the infrastructure support available to all voluntary and community sector organisations in England.
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.
Building Neighbourhood Nurseries
Area: England
Closing date: 21 December 2002
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: The Building Neighbourhood Nurseries programme is paving the way for the creation of new childcare places by investing in much needed buildings.
Cancer Equipment England
Area: England
Closing date: 1 January 2005
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: This programme aims to help hospitals to improve their services for cancer screening, detection, diagnosis and treatment by providing new, replacement or updated equipment.
Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme
Area: England
Closing date: 7 June 2004
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: The programme aimed to increase the choice of services available such as advice on healthy eating and provide good quality learning materials.
Children's Play
Area: England
Closing date: 10 September 2007
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: See Local authority allocations
Description: The Big Lottery Fund’s Children’s Play initiative is based on the recommendations of the 2004 play review Getting Serious About Play.
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.
Community Assets
Area: England
Closing date: 15 November 2007
Minimum grant: £150,000 Maximum grant: £1 million
Description: The Big Lottery Fund is delivering the Community Assets programme on behalf of the Office of the Third Sector. This is not Lottery funding.
Community Buildings
Area: England
Closing date: 30 April 2007
Minimum grant: £50,001 Maximum grant: £500,000
Description: This programme will give communities the chance to improve their quality of life by funding buildings that are economically and socially sustainable.
Community Libraries
Area: England
Closing date: 30 March 2007
Minimum grant: £250,000 Maximum grant: £2 million
Description: Libraries have an important role in the community and we want our funding to strengthen the relationship between them.
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.
Do it 4 real
Area: England
Closing date: 31 July 2007
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: Do It 4 Real is a residential summer activities programme for young people in England.
England Living with Cancer
Area: England
Closing date: 31 May 2000
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: This programme aims to reduce the inequalities in provision of and access to cancer services by providing home care, support for carers, and information about cancer services....
Fair Share: Transforming Your Space England
Area: England
Closing date: 13 May 2003
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: Part of Transforming communities, but delivered under fair share, aims to fund local environment projects which improve quality of life in deprived areas.
Family Learning
Area: England
Closing date: 29 August 2008
Minimum grant: £10,000 Maximum grant: £500,000
Description: Family Learning will help parents to understand more about how their children learn.
Five-a-day Local Communities Initiatives
Area: England
Closing date: 27 September 2002
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: The aimof this programme was to remove some of the health barriers and to promote the consumption of fruit and vegetables.
Football Foundation
Area: England
Closing date: 1 September 2005
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: The Fund have delegated funding to the Football Foundation to support capital projects for schools and the community.
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.
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.
Heart Failure Support Networks
Area: England
Closing date: 15 September 2003
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: We hope this new programme will increase the number of nurse-led community management programmes for people with heart failure.
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.
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...
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.
National Defibrillator Programme
Area: England
Closing date: 5 April 2004
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: This funding will improve survival rates for people whose hearts stop beating and increase the numbers of people with basic life support skills.
New Opportunities for Health: Diagnostic Equipment
Area: England
Closing date: 1 March 2004
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: The aim of this programme was to tackle the burden of heart disease, stroke and cancer by improving access to services for patients.
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.
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 for Adults
Area: England
Closing date: 16 August 2002
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: The aim was to improve the quality of life of adults with a life threatening condition. It was targeted at areas of the country with the highest palliative care need.
Palliative Care for Children
Area: England
Closing date: 16 August 2002
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: The aim of this programme was to improve the quality of life of children with life threatening or life limiting conditions and their families
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.
Playful Ideas
Area: England
Closing date: 31 December 2007
Minimum grant: £10,000 Maximum grant: £250,000
Description: The Playful Ideas programme will support projects that focus on innovation and new ways of providing for children’s play.
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
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.
School Fruit Pilots
Area: England
Closing date: 25 June 2004
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: The aim is to provide a free piece of fruit each school day, to children aged 4 to 6. Eating 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day is recommended by experts.
Spaces for Sport and Arts
Area: England
Closing date: 31 October 2001
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: The Fund has contributed money from the new opportunities for PE and sport programme.
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.
Well-being
Area: England
Closing date: 28 July 2006
Minimum grant: £1 million Maximum grant: none
Description: The Well-being programme aims to support the development of healthier lifestyles and to improve well-being.
Young People’s Fund 2: National Grants
Area: England
Closing date: 4 April 2008
Minimum grant: £200,000 Maximum grant: £5 million
Description: Up to £38 million will fund projects of national significance that involve young people in developing, running and reviewing policies and services and h...
Young People's Fund: Grants to National Organisations
Area: England
Closing date: 27 January 2006
Minimum grant: none Maximum grant: none
Description: The first programme of the Big Lottery Fund was the Young People's Fund. This programme has increased opportunities for young people and hopes to make a last...
Young People's Fund: Grants to individuals
Area: England
Closing date: 1 November 2007
Minimum grant: £250 Maximum grant: £5,000
Description: The 'Grants to Individuals' strand of the Young People's Fund will fund young people's ideas for projects that will make a difference in their community.
Young People's Fund: Grants to organisations
Area: England
Closing date: 14 July 2006
Minimum grant: £5,000 Maximum grant: £150,000
Description: Projects should be for young people aged 11 - 18. We can also fund projects specifically aimed at disadvantaged young people up to the age of 25.
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