The National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) has  has three rolling funding programmes:

• Awards for all (for applications up to £20,000) for up to 2 years.
• Reaching Communities (for applications over £20,000) for up to 5 years.
• Partnerships (for applications over £20,000 for organisations that work together with a shared set of goals to help communities to thrive) for up to 5 years.

They can currently fund projects or organisations that do at least one of the following:

• Bring people together to build strong relationships in and across communities.
• Improve the places and spaces that matter to communities.
• Help more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest possible stage.
• Support people, communities and organisations facing more demands and challenges because of the cost of living crisis (for Awards for All only)

New strategy expected to be in place by April 2024 – this will affect what you can apply for.

• The National Lottery Community Fund are expected to implement their new strategy from April 2024 (exact date yet to be confirmed).
• You can read a summary of the new strategy here .
• Once this has been implemented, we will update you on anything that has changed.

Applications for all three programmes are accepted on an ongoing basis and further information on these programmes and how to apply can be found through the links above.

Further support:

• Contact RVA’s Advice Service Manager, Herjeet Randhawa, at herjeet.randhawa@rva.org.uk if you would like 1:1 support with getting ready for funding.