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.
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40 grants available to your project
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| Grant | Location/Distributor | Funding Amount |
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National Lottery Awards for All Northern Ireland Voluntary or community organisations and public sector organisations are eligible to apply for 12 months of project funding. This programme supports people to bring about positive changes in their community. |
Northern Ireland |
£300 - £10,000 |
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Screen Scotland - The Broadcast Content Fund The Broadcast Content Fund aims to help 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 - The Distribution and Exhibition Fund The Distribution and Exhibition Fund aims to support wider distribution of completed Scottish films across Scotland and internationally, and especially to increase access to Scottish films for as wide and diverse an audience as possible within Scotland. |
Scotland |
£5,000 - £15,000 |
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Screen Scotland - Film Festivals Fund The Film Festivals Fund aims to increase the range and diversity of films available to audiences in Scotland - projects supported through this fund should help to promote cinemagoing and cinemas in Scotland, and to raise the profile of film, especially specialised film. |
Scotland |
£5,000 - £70,000 |
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Screen Scotland - Market and Festival Attendance Fund The Market and Festival Attendance Fund aims to support attendance at international film, TV and screen festivals and markets for screenwriters, directors and producers based in Scotland, to enable them to meet potential partners, access global markets and promote their completed projects |
Scotland |
£500 - £1500 |
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This fund is run by Creative Scotland for artists, groups, and creative organisations who are looking to apply for money to support them on their artistic or creative projects. Anyone can come to Creative Scotland with their ideas, and this fund will support a wide range of things, from small one-off events to longer programmes of work that can last for up to 2 years. |
Scotland |
£1,000 - £150,000 |
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Screen Scotland - The 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. |
Scotland |
£200,000 - £500,000 |
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Screen Scotland - The 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. |
Scotland |
£3,000 - £50,000 |
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Empowering Young People is a grants programme designed to support projects in Northern Ireland that give young people aged 8 to 25 the ability to overcome the challenges they face. |
Northern Ireland |
£10,000 - £50,000 |
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Supporting positive change in the community. The People and Communities programme is designed to support you to work with local people to bring about positive changes in your community. A community could be a geographical area or a community of interest. |
Northern Ireland |
£10,000 - £500,000 |
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National Lottery Awards for All Scotland National Lottery Awards for All offers funding from £300 to £10,000 to support what matters to people and communities. |
Scotland |
£300 - £10,000 |
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Medium grants for community-led activity |
Scotland |
£10,000 - £150,000 |
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Funding to help local communities to address specific inequalities or disadvantages through ownership of an asset |
Scotland |
£10,000 - £1,000,000 |
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Funding to help people facing challenging circumstances |
Scotland |
£10,000 - £500,000 |
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National Lottery Awards for All Wales National Lottery Awards for All offers funding from £300 to £10,000 to support what matters to people and communities. |
Wales |
£300 - £10,000 |
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National Lottery Grants for Heritage The National Lottery Grants for Heritage programme is an open programme for all types of projects that focusses on heritage in the UK. |
England |
£3,000 - £5,000,000 |
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Community Chest offers grant awards up to £1,500 in any 12 months towards increasing participation and improving standards |
Wales |
£1 - £1,500 |
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Primarily, we fund outcome-based projects that develop sport and physical recreation in the community. Priority will be given to those proposed projects that directly focus on the delivery of the activity in question. |
Wales |
£1,501 - £25,000 |
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Support for aspiring athletes in non-Olympic/Paralympic sports |
Wales |
At the discretion of the Elite Cymru panel |
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The Small Grants programme aims to support this by offering funding to projects involving adults and young people aged 14 or over which meet one or more of the aims of our ‘Towards an Active Nation’ strategy |
England |
£300 - £10,000 |
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funding targeted towards supporting the aims of our Towards an Active Nation Strategy and the following five outcomes: Physical wellbeing, Mental wellbeing, Individual development, Social and community development, and Economic development |
England |
£1,000 - £150,000 |
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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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The Rural Programme (round two) is for projects that will make a positive impact on the lives of people and communities living in poverty in rural Wales. This programme will fund partnerships that understand the connection between the causes and effects of poverty, and propose solutions and services which use a joined-up approach to tackle the problem at its core. |
Wales |
£1 - £500,000 |
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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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National Lottery Awards for All England National Lottery Awards for All offers funding from £300 to £10,000 to support what matters to people and communities. |
England |
£300 - £10,000 |
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Great Ideas is designed to support great ideas that don’t necessarily involve people at every stage but if implemented would contribute to putting people in the lead. |
Northern Ireland |
£10,001 - £500,000 |
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Arts Council Northern Ireland - Small Grants Programme The aim of the Small Grants 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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Film Education Partnership Fund The aim of this fund is to develop increased capabilities in film education, typically through greater connectivity and partnership working between film education organisations and practitioners, and professional development for the film education practitioners involved. |
Scotland |
£1 - £300,000 |
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This fund seeks to increase the diversity of people in the arts, screen and creative industries. |
Scotland |
£1 - £350,000 |
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Screen 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 |
£1 - £100,000 |
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UK Film-Focused Activity at International Festivals, Markets and other Platforms (UKFFA Fund) The BFI Audience Fund is an open access, flexible fund for a range of audience-facing activities. The Fund aims to boost diversity and inclusivity, and to build a broad film culture across the UK which recognises and values the quality of difference and seeks to rebalance under-representation on screen, in the workforce and in audiences. |
Nationwide |
£20,000 - £200,000 |
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The BFI consider applications for completion funding from films that have been invited to launch at a major international film festival but need additional funding to be completed prior to their festival screening. |
Nationwide |
N/A - No minimum or maximum amount |
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The BFI Development Fund can support the formal development of projects - from treatments to production-ready screenplays. We aim to award funding to distinctive and original live action and animated fiction film across a range of genres, approaches and perspectives. |
Nationwide |
No minimum or maximum amount |
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The Film Export Fund aims to enhance the export opportunities for British films where they have been selected to appear at important international film festivals. The fund can help sales agents with a film’s publicity and marketing, as well as with the technical and logistical costs of appearing at a high-profile festival. |
Nationwide |
£1 - £15,000 |
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This fund is the first step in the BFI’s development support for live action and animated fiction projects from new feature film writers. It supports people at the very beginning of their development process to produce an initial treatment and related materials. |
England |
No minimum or maximum amount |
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Our Short Film funding programme supports projects with directors based in England and supports the production costs of fiction shorts, in both live action and animation. It is run in partnership with the BFI NETWORK Talent Executives who work with filmmakers on the delivery of funded projects. |
England |
£1 - £15,000 |
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The BFI Production Fund welcome production applications from new and established filmmakers. Priority will be given to projects and filmmaking teams that demonstrate a bold vision and creative excellence, and that are unlikely to be fully financed by the marketplace. |
Nationwide |
£1 - £2,000,000 |
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The BFI Audience Fund is an open access, flexible fund for a range of audience-facing activities. The Fund aims to boost diversity and inclusivity, and to build a broad film culture across the UK which recognises and values the quality of difference and seeks to rebalance under-representation on screen, in the workforce and in audiences. |
Nationwide |
£20,000 - £200,000 |
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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 - £100,000 |