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.
Click here to view our Guide to National Lottery Funding.
6 grants available to your project Refine your search
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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. |
£250,000 - £10M |
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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 |
Some projects we’ve funded
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Sir Peter Murray CBE
Sir Peter Murray is a British curator and educationalist best known for founding the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) in 1977 with a modest grant of £1,000 and no staff.
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parkrun
Parkrun's Visually Impaired (VI) Scheme is a project that helps support visually impaired people to be more active.
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Fighting Fit
The historic Pat Benson Boxing Academy in Birmingham is an inclusive and welcoming establishment, transforming the lives of people of all ages, with a positive impact on everything from mental wellbeing to knife and gang crime