National Lottery Awards for All England

You can apply for funding to deliver a new or existing activity or to support your organisation to change and adapt to new and future challenges.

National Lottery can fund projects that’ll do at least one of these things:

• 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.

It’s now too late to get funding for events on Windrush Day, 22 June 2023. But we still welcome applications for Windrush projects starting on later dates. You should apply at least 16 weeks before the project happens.

On 15 November 2023 National Lottery Awards for All is changing. From then, you’ll be able to:

• apply for up to £20,000
• get your project funded for up to two years.

You can still only hold one National Lottery Awards for All grant at a time. This means if you apply for up to £10,000 before 15 November you would not be able to apply for more funding until your project is complete. You will not be able to ask for top-ups.

If you would like to ask for more than £10,000 and less than £20,000 then you should wait until 15 November to apply. The time it takes to assess and pay successful applicants is still 16 weeks.

Area: England

Suitable for: Voluntary or community organisations

Funding size: £300 to £10,000, for up to one year

Application deadline: Ongoing. Apply at least 16 weeks before you want to start the activities or spend any of the money.