Awards for All maximum grant increases to £10,000

Howard Lake | 3 April 2006 | News

The ceiling for funding awards for local communities in England from the Lottery’s Awards for All small grants scheme has been doubled to £10,000, and a new lower threshold level of £300 is also being introduced.

Awards for All is now accepting applications for small scale projects in England that promote arts and education, encourage healthier living, develop local sports, support heritage initiatives or boost community activities. A total of £60 million will be distributed by Awards for All to community projects during 2006-07.

The new lower £300 entry point for applications follows successful pilots of these micro grants, recognising the value that smaller grants can bring to grass roots community groups and voluntary organisations.

Awards for All England is the small grants programme run by the Big Lottery Fund on behalf of Lottery good cause funders – the Arts Council England, Big Lottery Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England. More than 78,000 awards have been made since the scheme began to a variety of projects including sport, heritage, education, environment, health and others that benefit the local community.

Awards for All grants can be applied for by a range of not for profit organisations, including parish or town councils, schools and health bodies. Most applicants will be advised within eight weeks if they have been successful.

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.