The National Lottery Community Fund

1. The National Lottery Community Fund Enabling Communities to take the lead

2. Your local Team Maxine Murray Funding Officer – North London (Haringey and Barnet)

3. Our Funding in the UK • The National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery

4. Our Strategic Vision: People in the Lead • We believe people should be in the lead in improving their lives and communities. Our approach will focus on the skills, assets and energy that people can draw upon and the potential in their ideas.

5. The National Lottery Community Fund likes to support organisations who are: • People Led • Meaningfully involving the people you’re working with in the development and delivery of your activity. • Strengths based • Making the most of the skills that already exist in communities. • Connected • Understanding what other relevant organisations are doing and developing good working relationships.

6. Our funding priorities • Stronger relationship • We support ideas that bring people together, strengthening relationships in and across communities • Shared and sustainable places and spaces • We support people to shape and sustain the places that matter to them, like a park, community centre or online network • Early action to prevent problems and tackle disadvantage • We support activity that empowers people to fulfil their potential, working to address problems at the earliest possible stage

7. Our Funding in England • We give out money in three ways: • Under £10,000 • National Lottery Awards for All: our most popular • funding stream, providing a quick and simple way to get small Lottery grants of between £300 and £10,000. • Over £10,000 • Reaching Communities: Flexible funding over £10,000 for up to five years to organisations in England who want to take action on the issues that matter to people and communities. • Partnerships: Through our Partnerships funding, we make grants over £10,000 for organisations which work together with a shared set of goals and values.

8. Who can apply • voluntary and community organisation • registered charity or charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) • group of organisations, as long as they are led by a voluntary and community organisation • school • statutory body (including local authorities, town, parish or community council) • not for profit company including companies limited by guarantee and Community Interest Companies with two or more directors • We cannot accept applications from • individuals • sole traders • organisations based outside the UK • anyone who is applying on behalf of another organisation • organisations that are aimed at generating profits primarily for private distribution • organisations without at least two unconnected* people on the board or committee

9. We can fund: • staff salaries • project activities • running costs • small scale refurbishment • equipment • organisational development We can’t fund: • activities that replace government funding • political or religious activities • profit-making activities for private gain retrospective costs • loan repayments

10. Why Partnerships • We all know there is a lack of funding. Only approx. 20% of application received by us are funded. Partnerships helps to spread our pot of money that bit further. • Working in Partnership helps to avoid duplication in services, joining up organisations who are running similar projects or working with similar beneficiary groups. • Partnership working increases the capacity of organisations , such as sharing resources, staff or skills etc.

11. Partnerships • Partnerships funding is designed to increase collaborative working, which starts with shared goals and values between different organisations. • We encourage you to develop and grow existing partnerships as well as encourage new types of partnerships which build on your different skills and strengths. • Our funding can support many different types of partnerships, including: cross-sector partnerships / local and national organisations working together around a particular theme.

12. Some of the things we look at when assessing Partnership proposals • Are the right partners involved? • Are all partners truly committed to the idea? • Are the arrangements needed to manage this partnership in place? • Are the individual roles of each partner clear? • What is the added value of these organisations working together?

13. Your idea • Give us a brief outline of what you want to do. • What you want to do and why? • What difference do you think your idea will make? • How are people and communities involved with your project? • What is the background of your organisation? • How much money do you need from us and for how long? • How does your idea fit in with other local activities • What is the brief background to your involvement with each partner and how will you work together?

14. The process • Submit your idea • Your idea is then allocated to a local Funding Officer • The Funding Officers role is to gather any additional information needed in order to present your proposal • Informal panel – we sometimes discuss your ideas informally in order to gain insight from others to ensure we have enough information to move your idea forward

15. The process (cont.) • Formal panel – Your idea is then presented in front of a formal panel who will decide that they are either: interested in your idea and would like to gather more information (this is called Full Stage Proposal) or that they are not interested in your idea at this point and decide not progress your idea further • You will then receive an email informing you of the decision made and some feedback is given

16. Website: https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/ Advice Team – 0345 4 102030 Finding out more