Big Lottery Fund

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Big Lottery Fund
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What is the Big Lottery Fund?
BIG is one of the four major Lottery distributors
the others are Arts Council England, Heritage
Lottery Fund and Sport England BIG is
responsible for distributing almost half of the
money that the National Lottery raises for good
causes Our mission is to bring real improvements
to communities and the lives of people most in
need BIG is an outcomes funder we want to
fund projects that can make measurable changes
for the better in the lives of people and
communities experiencing disadvantage
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BIGs strategic outcomes

• BIG wants to fund projects whose main aim will
  help to achieve at least one or more of BIGs
  strategic 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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Should we apply to the Big LotteryFund?

• Ask yourselves
• Is the main aim of your project to address and
  remedy a social problem and will the project help
  to achieve at least one of the Big Lottery Fund
  outcomes?
• If yes
• Consider applying

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Who can apply to Awards for All?

• You can apply if you are a
• voluntary and community organisation
• school
• parish or town council
• health body

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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
• You are
• looking for funding to undertake new activities
  or extend your facilities

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How much you can apply for?

• Between 300 and 10,000
• Only one application at a time
• One organisation cannot receive more than
  10,000 of Awards for All grants in any one year
  period
• No match funding required within grant limit

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What Awards for All can pay for

• Examples of what a grant could pay for
• equipment hire or purchase
• information technology equipment
• building and refurbishment work where total
  cost of work lt 25,000
• sessional workers
• updating equipment and premises for health and
  safety reasons
• training
• volunteer expenses
• transport costs
• venue hire

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Application process
You can apply at any time during the year You
can apply online or by post Decisions made
within 3 months If unsuccessful, feedback is
given and you can apply again
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Reaching Communities
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Reaching Communities

• Who can apply
• Voluntary and community organisations
• Statutory bodies (schools, councils, health)
• Social enterprises
• Reaching Communities can fund existing as well as
  new projects existing projects will need to
  provide an evaluation of their work

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Reaching Communities

• Maximum grant
• 500,000 revenue towards a maximum project cost
  of 750,000
• 50,000 capital towards a maximum capital
  project cost of 200,000
• Projects seeking more than 300,000 must be
  examples of excellent practice
• Minimum grant 10,000
• A project can be funded for a minimum of 1 year
  and a maximum of 5 years
• No requirement for match funding within grant
  maxima

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Reaching Communities- Community Buildings strand

• Grant size 100,000 to 500,000
• Maximum project size 750,000
• Up to 15,000 revenue available for promotion
• Open to the voluntary and community sector and
  parish/town councils
• Only certain areas eligible to apply chosen on
  deprivation and rurality
• Detailed information and building postcode
  checker is available on BIG website
• 13 eligible areas in Chelmsford and Maldon

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Reaching Communities - what can be funded

• Revenue
• Salaries of project workers
• Recruitment, training costs and staff expenses
  (travel, phones, stationery etc.)
• Rent, heating, lighting, maintenance and
  insurance
• Monitoring and evaluation of project
• Capital
• Building and engineering works required for
  delivery of project
• Plant and equipment necessary for running the
  project
• Purchase of land, buildings, equipment or
  fixtures
• Transport necessary for delivering the project
  

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Reaching Communities standard application
process

• You can apply at any time
• Stage 1 Submit an outline proposal form (OPF)
• - Response within 4 weeks
• - Responses Maybe or unlikely or outside
  funding policy
• If maybe, you will be invited to submit a full
  application
• If unsuccessful, feedback is given and you can
  submit an OPF again
• Stage 2 Submit a full application within 4
  months
• - If seeking less than 40k a year, decision
  within 2 months

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What makes for a good application to the Big
Lottery Fund?
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Read our guidance!
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• Remember BIGs mission is
• to bring real improvements to communities
• and the lives of people most in need
• We need your applications to explain to us
• why the people and communities you want to help
  are in need
• how your project will change peoples lives for
  the better
• how your project will involve its beneficiaries
• how you will make sure your project is open to
  all
• how your project helps to achieve at least one
  of BIGs four strategic outcomes

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Explaining the need

• Tell us about the needs the people who will use
  your project have
• Explain how you know that they have these need
  and what you have learned from discussing your
  plans with them
• Show how your project or activities will meet
  the need you have identified
• Dont assume that we will automatically see that
  there is a need.
• It is up to you to convince us.

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Evidencing the need
Community consultation through meetings and
surveys (KEY) Waiting lists and attendance
records Identifying gaps in facilities,
activities or services talking to other
agencies Research Statistical research (but
keep it local) Looking at local, regional or
national strategies Evaluation of previous
work Use a variety of sources to confirm the
need dont just rely on one If you cant
consult, explain why you cant
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Explain how your project will change peoples
lives for the better

• Think about what difference will the project make
  for the beneficiaries?
• Use change words like increased, improved,
  reduced...
• Dont just tell us what you are going to do, tell
  us how what you are going to do is going to
  change peoples lives
• Examples
• Older people will report decreased feelings of
  isolation through attending a weekly club
• Villagers will report improved wellbeing through
  taking part in activities in the new village hall
  extension

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Explaining how you will involve your
beneficiaries in the project
How were your beneficiaries involved in designing
the project? What roles will your beneficiaries
have in the delivery of the project? Think about
customer feedback, participation in
decision-making, volunteering etc If barriers
exist to participation, explain what they are.
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Explaining how will you make sure that as wide a
range of people as possible can benefit?
How many people will your project reach and in
what ways will people benefit? How will you
ensure that people from different backgrounds
know about your project and how to benefit from
it? If you know of groups who are less likely to
take part, how do you know this is the case and
how will you tackle it? If you plan to promote
or publicise your project, how will you do this?
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Which of our BIG outcomes will your project meet?

• Which of the four BIG outcomes will your project
  help achieve?
• Will the main aim of your project help to
• - give people a better chance in life and/or
• create a stronger community and/or
• improve the local environment or access to it
  and/or
• make people in your community healthier
• Only pick outcomes you can justify
• Remember to relate outcomes to identified need.

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Further information and advice
Websites www.awardsforall.org.uk www.biglotter
yfund.org.uk Phone BIG Advice Line 0845 4 10 20
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01223 449032 ed.hickman_at_biglotteryfund.org.uk
Other Lottery distributors Arts Council England
www.artscouncil.org.uk Heritage Lottery Fund
www.hlf.org.uk Sport England www.sportengland.
org