Awards for All

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Awards for All

• Glenn Austin
• Policy and Learning Officer

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Todays Learning

• You will have a better understanding of the Big
  Lottery Fund, and of the current funding
  environment.
• You will have a better understanding of Awards
  for All, and if it is the right programme for
  you.
• You will have an increased understanding of how
  to strengthen your application, and greater
  confidence to apply.

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How the Lottery pound is spent

• Camelot (0.5 pence)
• Prize money (50 pence)
• Taxes (12 pence)
• Retailer (5 pence)
• Administration (4.5 pence)
• Good causes (28 pence)

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Understanding the Funder

• Big Lottery Fund Mission Statement
• Bringing about real change to communities and to
  the lives of those most in need

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Outcomes Funder
Community learning and creating opportunity
Promoting community safety and cohesion
Promoting well being
Outcome 1 People having better chances in life,
with better access to training and development to
improve their life skills
Outcome 2 Stronger communities, with more active
citizens, working together to tackle their
problems
Outcome 3 Improved rural and urban environments,
which communities are better able to access and
enjoy
Outcome 4 Healthier and more active people and
communities
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Understanding The Funding Environment

• Snapshot South East Awards for All programme
  April 2009 to April 2012
• Requested 29,920,181
• Actual spend 15,284,375
• South East application success rate over life of
  programme 50 approx (currently better at 55)

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The Art Group

• With 4,260 from Awards for All, this group in
  Brighton ran art workshops for people suffering
  from arthritis who are often socially isolated as
  they have to give up work. The monthly sessions
  were led by local artists and covered everything
  from water colours to mosaics. At the end of the
  year, their artwork was displayed in the Brighton
  Festival.

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Football for All

• The Dartford Ladies Football Club was awarded
  4,898 from Awards for All to run football
  classes for young people with physical and/or
  learning disabilities. The sessions increase the
  confidence of the players, improve their skills
  and eventually get them to the point where they
  can play a full game of football.

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Awards for All Outcomes

• Awards for All projects must meet at least one of
  BIGs outcomes
• people having better chances in life with better
  access to training and development to improve
  their life skills
• stronger communities with more active citizens
  working together to tackle their problems
• improved rural and urban environments which
  communities are better able to access and enjoy
• healthier and more active people and communities

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You can apply if...

• You have
• at least 3 unrelated people on your governing
  body
• a UK bank account in the name of your
  organisation with at least two unrelated
  signatories
• You can
• send BIG an application at least three months
  before your project is planned to start
• complete your project within one year of when BIG
  confirms your award

Please see Good Governance Guide
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Awards for All - How much you can apply for?

• Between 300 and 10,000
• Only one application at a time
• One Awards for All funded project needs to be
  completed and the End of Grant report approved
  before you can apply again
• One organisation cannot receive more than 10,000
  of Awards for All grants in any one year period.

Change - 10,000 in one year period
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What can Awards for All pay for?

• Examples of what a grant could pay for
• equipment hire or purchase
• information technology equipment
• building and refurbishment work
• sessional workers
• updating equipment and premises for health and
  safety reasons
• training
• volunteer expenses
• transport costs
  
• venue hire

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VAT and buildings

• BIG will only fund non-recoverable VAT.
• Any planning permission needed must be in place
  before making an application.
• For building projects, applicants must own their
  own freehold or hold a lease that will continue
  for at least five years.
• Total costs of building works must not be more
  than 25,000 (including VAT).

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Examples of what Awards for All cannot pay for

• Activities that happen or start before BIG
  confirms the grant
• Day-to-day running costs
• Existing activities and repeat or regular events
  (unless 3 years since taken place or delivered to
  new beneficiary types)
• Items that mainly benefit an individual
• Building and refurbishment work costing more than
  25,000 (inc. VAT)

Repeat activities (see guidance page 9)
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Awards for All cannot pay for (continued)

• Salaries of permanent or fixed term staff
• Projects or activities that the state has a legal
  obligation to provide
• Political or religious activities
• Routine repairs and maintenance
• Fundraising activities
• Used vehicles

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Application process
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Awards for All - Improving your chances

• BIG scores applications to help decide who should
  be funded. Applications will score higher if
  they
• show strong evidence of need
• seek to involve as wide a range of people as
  possible
• meet more than one of our outcomes
• are from groups that have never received an
  Awards for All grant
• are from groups with a smaller annual income
• are for smaller projects

The scoring guide used to assess Awards for All
is on the website
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Common Mistakes

• Not understanding what Awards for All can fund
• Applications incomplete on first submission
• Not returning requested documents at conditional
  offer stage.

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Common Reject Reasons

• Outside programme remit - apply for things we do
  not fund (more suited to another lottery
  distributor)
• Insufficient evidence of need
• Does not make link between projects outcomes and
  programme outcomes

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Why do you need to evidence need?

• High demand for limited resources
• Prove your project will make a difference
• Prove that you havent presumed what the
  community needs
• Prove that your project is the best way of
  addressing the need identified what are the
  alternatives?
• Prove that you understand the community and their
  needs

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What sources can you use to evidence need?

• Strategies - generic and specialist
• Statistics and area or community profile
• Research (reports, surveys etc)
• Consultation and community involvement
• Other existing services/current provision (or
  lack of)
• Evaluation of existing services
• Letters of support
• Anecdotal evidence

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Explaining outcomes
18 years old, mental health issues, sits at home
isolated from peers, lacks confidence, low self
esteem, dropped out of education/training
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Explaining outcomes

• Activities
• Drop in/coffee and chat
• Accompanied walks to shops
• Hill walking
• IT training (games, surfing, music)
• Expert speakers

18 years old, mental health issues, sits at home
isolated from peers, lacks confidence, low self
esteem, dropped out of education/training
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Explaining outcomes

• Activities
• Drop in/coffee and chat
• Accompanied walks to shops
• Hill walking
• IT training (games, surfing, music)
• Expert speakers

• Project outcomes
• Feels less isolated
• Increase in confidence
• Increased self esteem
• Increased skills
• Increased understanding

18 years old, mental health issues, sits at home
isolated from peers, lacks confidence, low self
esteem, dropped out of education/training
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Explaining outcomes

• Activities
• Drop in/coffee and chat
• Accompanied walks to shops
• Hill walking
• IT training (games, surfing, music)
• Expert speakers

• Project outcomes
• Feels less isolated
• Increase in confidence
• Increased self esteem
• Increased skills
• Increased understanding

Links to
18 years old, mental health issues, sits at home
isolated from peers, lacks confidence, low self
esteem, dropped out of education/training

• Programme outcomes
• Healthier and more active people
• People having better chances in life

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Explaining outcomes

• Activities
• Drop in/coffee and chat
• Accompanied walks to shops
• Hill walking
• IT training (games, surfing, music)
• Expert speakers

• Project outcomes
• Feels less isolated
• Increase in confidence
• Increased self esteem
• Increased skills
• Increased understanding

Links to
18 years old, mental health issues, sits at home
isolated from peers, lacks confidence, low self
esteem, dropped out of education/training

• Programme outcomes
• Healthier and more active people
• People having better chances in life

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Things to double check

• Is the name of your organisation on your
  application form, bank account and governing
  document exactly the same?
• Are you asking for an item or activities that
  Awards for All can fund?
• Have you filled in all sections of the form?
• Does your main contact know all about your
  project?
• BIG has changed the rules on referees- no longed
  required at application form stage
• Will your main contact be available during the
  assessment and grant confirmation period?

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Make sure you allow enough time!

• BIG will take up to six weeks to assess the
  application
• If a conditional offer is made, additional
  documents will be requested
• BIG will take up to two weeks to assess the
  additional documents
• You must allow at least three months between
  submitting your application and when you need
  your grant

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Further information and advice

• Website www.awardsforall.org.uk
• Phone BIG Advice Line 0845 4 10 20 30
• Text phone [phone]

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