# Big Lottery Fund offers £50 million for community centre buildings

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/07/26/big-lottery-fund-offers-50-million-community-centre-buildings/
- Published: 2006-07-26T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Big Lottery Fund is investing £50 million in buildings that will be hubs for
communities, hosting a wide variety of activities for all sections of the community.

The Fund’s new Community Buildings programme will put Lottery good cause money into
buildings across England to strengthen the key role they play in local communities.

The Big Lottery Fund will make £50 million available over three years, with grants
of between £50,000 and £500,000 to improve, replace or introduce a building into
a community that provides services and activities to meet the needs of a range of
people.

The programme is open to voluntary or community organisations (which includes charities,
unincorporated associations, not-for-profit companies, credit unions, self-help 
groups or co-operatives and faith based community organisations), parish councils
or church-based faith organisations.

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Under Community Buildings, the Big Lottery Fund will give out grants that broaden
access to and increase the use of existing services; create a greater number and
wider range of new services; improve opportunities for the community to access a
wide range of learning; and improve the skills, knowledge and capacity to respond
to community needs.

The programme will support sustainable buildings that are adaptable to a variety
of community needs, have a reduced impact on the environment and can be maintained
by the community in the long term. It is also important for applications to demonstrate
accessibility and meaningful involvement of the local community in both use and 
management of the centre.

Applications to the Community Buildings programme will be assessed in two stages
and applicants wanting to apply for a grant, must submit their first stage application
form by 30 April 2007. Application forms are available at: [http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk](http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk)

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