2 new funds now available from the National Lottery Community Fund
Posted on 27 November 2024 by Chris Allen in Funding Community Grants Lottery
The National Lottery Community Fund (Scotland) has today unveiled 2 new funding streams: Fairer Life Chances, and Community Action. Both funds are open to applications now, with no deadlines currently in sight.
Community Action and Fairer Life Chances will both focus on helping communities to tackle poverty, disadvantage, and discrimination, and ask groups to demonstrate how they will reach and support people facing these challenges.
These new funds will award bigger and longer grants and fund organisations of different sizes and levels of experience. They will also support many smaller organisations to apply for multi-year funding for the first time, allowing them to develop over a more sustained period.
Community Action replaces the former Community Led fund, and broadens its definition of "community" to include people who share an identity, interest or experience, as well as people living in the same place. Funding of up to £250,000 is available for projects that bring communities together to improve wellbeing and develop positive relationships within those communities; and that encourage connection with other people and/or connection with the environment.
Fairer Life Chances will fund projects that support children, young people and families, or that help people to be healthier and have better access to support. It aims to fund vulnerable or excluded communities and, in particular, those that find it hardest to access support, with up to £500,000 available.
To apply to either fund, contact the National Lottery Community Fund's team to discuss your project, and go from there.
The National Lottery Community Fund has many funding streams across Scotland and the wider UK. To view more funds from the National Lottery, view their funds on Funding Scotland here: