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
| Grant | Location/Distributor | Funding Amount |
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Creating Opportunities
Creating Opportunities provides National Lottery funded match funding through Crowdfunder to support new and additional sport and physical activity projects that reduce barriers to participation and help underrepresented groups become more active across Northern Ireland. Funding is aimed at projects that increase participation and address underrepresentation in sport, particularly among people with disabilities, women and girls, children and young people, older people, ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ people, those living in areas of greatest need and people living in rural communities. |
Northern Ireland |
£500 - £5,000 |
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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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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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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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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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Rural Media Charity
The importance of preserving and documenting the cultural heritage of an area has been brought to life by Rural Media’s film A Great Place
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Esther Fox
Esther Fox leads Curating for Change, creating ground-breaking opportunities for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people to participate and lead in the cultural sector
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Back into sport
Rotherham United's Back into Sport reaches out to members of the black and ethnic minority community to encourage them to take up sport and physical activities.