# People’s Postcode Lottery offers £1 million Dream Fund

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/09/02/peoples-postcode-lottery-offers-1m-dream-fund/
- Published: 2014-09-02T10:00:26+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Charities** **and community groups across Great Britain can now apply to the Dream
Fund from the People’s Postcode Lottery. The £1 million fund is designed to support
two ‘dream projects’ which can be created over a 24-month period.

This is the fifth year of the Dream Fund and is the largest sum it has offered so
far. This year there is a first prize of £750,000 and a runner-up prize £250,000.
These are open respectively to charities with incomes of above and below £1.5 million.

Every application must come from a collaboration of charities, with the lead being
a registered charity. Other partners must be not for profit organisations.

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Projects should support one of the following criteria:

 * Advancement of participation in sports
 * Advancement of community development
 * Advancement of environmental protection
 * Advancement of health
 * Advancement of human rights
 * Prevention of poverty, distress and sickness

 

## Previous winners

To date the Dream Fund has granted over £1.4m to over 15 projects, including Missing
People and WWF.

Missing People used the funding to work alongside PACT (Parents and Abducted Children
Together) to develop an enhanced Child Rescue Alert system. The alert system has
been designed to alert anyone by text, email or pop-up, who has signed up to the
service to be alerted in the event of a child’s abduction.

Missing People CEO Jo Youle said:

> “Put simply, we couldn’t have launched it without winning the Dream Fund. We aim
> to have one million people registered to receive Alerts by May 2015, helping us
> to raise the alarm when the worst happens.”

50p from every £2 People’s Postcode Lottery ticket is awarded to charity, with players
having already raised £47.2 million for charities and good causes across Great Britain
and globally to date.

People’s Postcode Lottery Head of Charities, Clara Govier, said:

> “The Dream Fund is an opportunity for charities to finally work on a project they
> have always dreamed of. It’s designed to encourage charities and community projects
> to work together on a project that has always been just too big, or too expensive.
> Our previous winners have taken tremendous pride in finally seeing their dream
> projects come to life, all thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery.”

[Applications to the Dream Fund](http://www.postcodetrust.org.uk/dream-fund.aspx)
are open until 30 September 2014. The winners will be announced at a charity gala
in January 2015.