# £3 million People’s Postcode Lottery’s Dream Fund opens

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/07/14/3m-peoples-postcode-lotterys-dream-fund-opens/
- Published: 2017-07-14T08:55:44+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Charities and community groups across Britain can now apply to a £3 million fund
from the People’s Postcode Lottery to help “bring their dream project to life”.**

The Dream Fund, now in its eighth year, is the largest to date, with a top award
of **£1 million** and a total value of **£3 million**. This year the funding will
be awarded over two years.

So far over **£7.3 million** has been awarded from the Fund to 24 projects across
Britain. 

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## Collaboration

The Dream Fund encourages collaboration between charities and good causes. Previous
winners have included Heritage Heroes, a joint project between Canal & River Trust
and Help for Heroes, and Missing People’s ‘Child Rescue Alert’.

## Charitable purposes

Applications are invited from projects that fit within one or more of the following
purposes:

 * supporting families;
 * improving people’s lives through animals;
 * green communities
 * increasing life chances for young people.

Clara Govier, Head of Charities at People’s Postcode Lottery, said: “I am proud 
that players of People’s Postcode Lottery will be awarding an impressive **£3 million**
to winners of the 2018 Dream Fund. The Dream Fund is one of the highlights of the
People’s Postcode Lottery charity calendar and we are always excited to see the 
bold and courageous ideas submitted. If you’ve got an idea or a project that you
think is a little bit different then this is the funding opportunity for you. Good
luck to all applicants.”

Applications for the [Dream Fund](http://www.postcodedreamtrust.org.uk) are open
from **Friday 14 July** until Tuesday 22 August 2017. Winners will be announced 
in January 2018. 

## People’s Postcode Lottery

People’s Postcode Lottery is a charity lottery in which layers play with their postcodes
to win cash prizes, while raising money for charities and good causes across Great
Britain and globally. A minimum of 30% goes directly to charities and players have
raised £212.8 million for good causes across the country.

 

In practice People’s Postcode Lottery manages [multiple society lotteries](http://www.postcodelottery.co.uk/society)
promoted by different charities. 

 * **[People’s Postcode Lottery calls on Government to raise society lottery limits](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/12/11/peoples-postcode-lottery-calls-government-raise-society-lottery-limits/)**(
   11 December 2017)
 * **[Postcode Lotteries once more named world’s third largest private charity donor](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/12/18/postcode-lotteries-once-more-named-worlds-third-largest-private-charity-donor/)**(
   18 December 2017)
 * **[Grants of up to £20,000 available to local charities & good causes](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/01/30/grants-20000-available-local-charities-good-causes/)**(
   30 January 2019)

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