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.
22 grants available to your project
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| Grant | Location/Distributor | Funding Amount |
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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 This fund aims to support the continued development of a skilled and diverse screen workforce, fostering real professional opportunities and sustainable careers by supporting the professional and creative development of both emerging and established filmmaking talent, and promoting their work and Scottish filmmaking internationally. |
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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This fund aims to change the way we tour publicly funded theatre and dance productions, and support greater access to a variety of theatre and dance for a diverse audience - it also aims to provide broader opportunities for a more diverse range of artists and producers |
Scotland |
N/A - No minimum or maximum amount |
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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. |
Nationwide |
£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 |
uchafswm £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 |