Find funding for your project
The National Lottery is funding projects in the arts, sport, heritage, charity, voluntary, health, education and environmental sectors.
Every project makes a real difference to lives and communities across the UK. Different types of grants fund different types of projects – take a look below or refine your search by using the tabs to the right.
36 grants available to your project Refine your search
| Grant | Location/Distributor | Funding Amount |
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National Lottery Grants for Heritage (£250K - £10M)
Funding for large projects that connect people and communities to the national, regional and local heritage of the UK. From historic buildings, our industrial legacy and the natural environment, to collections, traditions, stories and more – heritage can be anything from the past that you value and want to pass on to future generations. This programme is open to not-for-profit organisations and partnerships led by a not-for-profit organisation. Projects must take into account four investment principles: saving heritage; protecting the environment; inclusion, access and participation; and organisational sustainability. |
Nationwide |
£250,000 - £10M |
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National Lottery Grants for Heritage (£10K - £250K)
Funding for projects that connect people and communities to the national, regional and local heritage of the UK. From historic buildings, our industrial legacy and the natural environment, to collections, traditions, stories and more – heritage can be anything from the past that you value and want to pass on to future generations. This programme is open to not-for-profit organisations, private owners of heritage and partnerships. Projects must take into account four investment principles: saving heritage; protecting the environment; inclusion, access and participation; and organisational sustainability. |
Nationwide |
£10,000 - £250,000 |
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BFI National Lottery Audiences Project Fund
The BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund supports ambitious, audience-facing independent UK and international film and broader screen activity of national scale. The Fund supports projects that focus on increasing awareness and growing the participation of audiences that represent the UK population. The Fund supports film exhibitors, film distributors, and other organisation delivering audience development activity with multi-year and short-term projects as well as research and development. |
Nationwide |
£20,000 - £200,000 with an upper limit of £500,000 for projects of exceptional scale and ambition* |
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Awards from the UK Portfolio
The UK Portfolio explores new and innovative approaches, and develops and tests new ways of building a stronger civil society. Our funding supports projects and ideas of UK-wide impact and significance that focus on transformational change. |
Nationwide |
£50,000 - £ x,000 plus |
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National Lottery Awards for All Northern Ireland
This programme supports people to bring about positive changes in their community. Voluntary, community and public sector organisations are eligible to apply for up to two years of project funding. A wide range of projects to support, develop and strengthen communities can be considered. Projects that are supporting communities to cope during the cost-of-living crisis can also apply. |
Northern Ireland |
£300 - £20,000 |
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Support for Individual Artists Programme (SIAP)
The Arts Council’s SIAP scheme offers a range of funding awards to support the needs of individual artists. Broadly, awards can be for specific projects, specialised research or personal artistic development. These include travel awards, General Art Awards, Artists Career Enhancement Scheme (ACES), Artists International Development Fund (AIDF). Check Guidance Notes on the Arts Council website for full details of what you can apply for. How much funding you can apply for will depend on which award you apply for. |
Northern Ireland |
£62 - £15,000 |
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Annual Funding Programme (AFP)
The aim of the Annual Funding Programme (AFP) is to support Northern Ireland’s arts infrastructure through grants to organisations in all artforms and practices for their core and programming costs. |
Northern Ireland |
N/A |
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Small Grants Programme
The aim of this programme is to assist organisations to deliver arts projects which contribute to the growth of arts in the community for new and existing audiences and which reflect the diversity of Northern Ireland’s society and culture. |
Northern Ireland |
£500 - £10,000 |
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Lottery Project Funding
The Arts Council has designed this programme to assist organisations to deliver arts projects which contribute to the growth of arts in the community for new and existing audiences and which reflect the diversity of Northern Ireland’s society and culture. |
Northern Ireland |
£10,001 - £50,000 |
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Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland) - Broadcast Content Fund
The Broadcast Content Fund supports the sustainable growth of Scotland’s broadcast production sector, encouraging the development of new projects, the scaling up of already successful activities and the production of commissioned programmes. |
Scotland |
£10,000 - £100,000 |
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Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland) - Distribution Fund
The Distribution Fund supports the distribution of Scottish feature films to reach a wide and diverse audience in Scotland. |
Nationwide |
£5,000 - £15,000 |
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Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland) - Market and Festival Attendance Fund
The Market and Festival Attendance Fund supports the progression of film and TV projects through attendance at key UK and international markets and festivals. |
Scotland |
£150 - £3,000 |
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Open Fund for Individuals
The Open Fund for Individuals supports Scotland-based artists and creative practitioners to undertake periods of research, development, and/or the delivery of creative activity. |
Scotland |
£500 - £50,000 |
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National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations
The National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations supports organisations to undertake creative activity such as a specific project or production, a programme of creative work, or a period of research and development. |
Nationwide |
£1,000 - £100,000 |
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Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland) - Production Growth Fund
The Production Growth Fund aims to help grow Scotland’s screen production sector by attracting large scale productions into the country, and maximising spend in Scotland. |
Nationwide |
£200,000 - £500,000 |
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Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland) - Film Development and Production Fund
The Film Development and Production Fund exists to offer development and production funding for feature length films and documentaries being made by filmmakers based in Scotland. |
Nationwide |
£3,000 - £500,000 |
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National Lottery Awards for All Scotland
National Lottery Awards for All offers funding from £300 to £20,000 to support what matters to people and communities. |
Scotland |
£300 - £20,000 |
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National Lottery Awards for All Scotland
National Lottery Awards for All offers funding from £300 to £20,000 to support what matters to people and communities. |
Scotland |
£300 - £20,000 |
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Community Led
The Community Led funding support communities to improve the places in which they live and the wellbeing of those most in need. |
Scotland |
£10,000 - £150,000 |
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Improving Lives
Through Improving Lives, we aim to support activity that helps people overcome challenging circumstances and become more resilient. |
Scotland |
£10,000 - £200,000 |
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Sport Facilities Fund
The Sport Facilities Fund (SFF) supports capital projects that create or improve places where people take part in sport and physical activity at all levels. |
Scotland |
£10,000 - £200,000 |
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Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland) - Screen Education Fund
The Screen Education Fund supports pilot programmes with innovation at their core, alongside programmes of work which aim to develop increased understanding of the potential of screen education, and support the provision of screen education in formal, informal, and non-formal settings. |
Scotland |
£5,000 - £20,000 |
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Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland) - Professional Development Fund
This fund aims to contribute to this by providing support for individuals working in film and television to access training, mentoring and other professional development activity, nationally and internationally. |
Scotland |
£250 - £5,000 |
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National Lottery Awards for All Wales
National Lottery Awards for All offers funding from £300 to £20,000 to support what matters to people and communities. |
Wales |
£300 - £20,000 |
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Be Active Wales Fund
The Be Active Wales Fund aims to protect and progress community sport clubs and organisations in Wales through the Covid-19 pandemic and into the future. The fund has already helped many clubs and organisations across Wales face the challenges caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. It will continue to provide funding to help clubs tackle these challenges, and to ensure sustainability for years to come. |
Wales |
£300 - £50,000 |
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Crowdfunder - A Place for Sport
Any not-for-profit clubs, voluntary or community-based organisations that deliver or enable sport and/or physical activity in Wales will be eligible for A Place for Sport. The scheme aim to raise money for ‘off-field’ improvements, such as lifts and ramps for better disability access, changing rooms, etc. |
Wales |
£1 - £15,000 |
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People and Places Medium Grants
People and Places: Medium grants offers funding from £10,001 to £100,000 for projects where people and communities are working together and using their strengths to make positive impacts on the things that matter to them the most. |
Wales |
£10,001 - £100,000 |
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People and Places: Large Grants
People and Places: Large grants offers funding from £100,001 to £500,000 for projects where people and communities are working together and using their strengths to make positive impacts on the things that matter to them the most. |
Wales |
£100,001 - £500,000 |
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Reaching Communities
The Reaching Communities programme offers flexible funding over £10,000 for up to five years to organisations in England who want to take action on the issues that matter to people and communities. It supports organisations with great ideas that enable communities to thrive. The grants are awarded to voluntary and community organisations or social enterprises for up to five years. It can fund project activities, operating costs, organisational development and capital costs. |
England |
£10,000+ |
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Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants
English National Lottery Project Grants is our open access programme for arts, museums and libraries projects. The fund supports thousands of individual artists, community and cultural organisations with projects that focus on: Combined Arts including festivals and carnivals, Dance, Libraries, Literature, Museums, Music, Theatre or Visual Arts. |
England |
£1,000 - £100,000 |
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Partnerships
This programme offers a larger amount of funding (over £10,000) for organisations that work together with a shared set of goals to help their community – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences. |
England |
£10,000 - £ x,000 plus |
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National Lottery Awards for All England
National Lottery Awards for All offers funding from £300 to £20,000 to support what matters to people and communities. |
England |
£300 - £20,000 |
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Movement Fund
We aim to support projects that get more people active and enhance sport and physical activity participation across England. The Movement Fund supports a variety of formally constituted not-for-profit organisation types, including sports clubs, charities, local authorities, schools, Community Benefit Societies and not-for-profit companies. To receive funding, you must have at least three non-related trustees or directors who don't live together. And you need to ensure decision making and voting rights are equally distributed between your trustees or directors. |
England |
£300 - 15,000 |
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National Lottery Rural Engagement Programme
The purpose of the Rural Engagement Arts Programme (REAP) is to provide an integrated, cohesive approach to supporting arts projects in rural communities while while recognising some specific issues they face. The impact that loneliness and social isolation can have on the physical, mental and social health of isolated older people is well documented. Participating in the arts, and coming together as communities, can make a vital contribution to improving health and wellbeing, building confidence and integrating communities. |
Northern Ireland |
£500 - £10,000 |
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National Lottery Arts and Older People Programme
The Arts & Older People Programme aims to strengthen the voice of older people and promote positive mental health and emotional wellbeing through the arts. It achieves this by providing funding to arts-based projects that address related social issues such as poverty, isolation and loneliness, as well as promoting positive mental health. |
Northern Ireland |
£1,000 - £10,000 |
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National Lottery Organisations Digital Evolution Awards
The aim of this programme is upskilling NI arts organisations in the use of new, emerging, and immersive technology and supporting the creation of high quality Digital Art. |
Northern Ireland |
£10,000 |
Some projects we’ve funded
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The School Games
The School Games keep competitive sport at the heart of schools and provide more young people with the opportunity to achieve their personal best.
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Professor Teresa Anderson MBE
Professor Teresa Anderson, MBE, is Director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Engagement, which is co-located with Jodrell Bank Observatory, one of the world's foremost radio astronomy observatories.
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Emma Wiggs
Emma is a two-time Paralympian and six-time world champion has represented Great Britain in both Sitting Volleyball and Canoeing. Outside of competition, Emma is an advocate for anti-doping and has been awarded an MBE for Services to Canoeing