The National Lottery UK Fund

All projects must:

• Benefit communities across the UK (by working in different places, or by sharing learning between countries).
• Scale up their impact by expanding their work (by helping more people, or doing more for people they already work with).
• Support people experiencing poverty, disadvantage and discrimination.
• Help make significant changes to services or systems that affect people’s everyday lives.

And meet one of these aims:

• Improve relationships between people with different life experiences.
• Help people and communities who find it difficult to meet face-to-face to make meaningful connections online.
• Help people from all backgrounds to influence the future of their communities.
• Help children and young people facing specific challenges change the systems that affect them.
• Help more organisations to involve and listen to children and young people.

You are more likely to get funding if you meet one aim well.

The National Lottery Uk Fund will only fund you to increase the impact of things you’re already doing. They will not fund a brand new way of working or projects that are mainly about delivering a service.