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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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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

The National Lottery Community Fund

£10,000+

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Activity Fund

We want to support new projects that will provide opportunities for people to become more physically activity and we particularly want organisations to consider how they could work more collaboratively across their community in order to make the biggest possible impact. Awards of up to £10,000 are available to not-for-profit organisations for a wide range of projects such as developing volunteering opportunities, making better use of physical assets and offering new services based on local demand.

England

Sport England

£300 - £10,000

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

Arts Council England

£1,000 - £100,000

Active Together

The Active Together programme is a match funding initiative delivered in partnership with Crowdfunder, which aims to support community organisations respond to the challenges of getting people active again after the Covid-19 pandemic, helping with recovery, reinvention and building resilience.

England

Sport England

£1 - £10,000

Places and Spaces

The Places and Spaces programme is a matched crowdfunding initiative, which aims to support local sport and physical activity groups to create, improve or change their sports facilities, bringing together communities as part of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

England

Sport England

£1 - £10,000

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

The National Lottery Community Fund

£10,000 - £ x,000 plus

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

The National Lottery Community Fund

£300 - £20,000