National Lottery opens community related Places Called Home funding programme
Melanie May | 30 June 2021 | News
The National Lottery Community Fund opens a new funding programme today, with grants of up to £5,000 available to help improve community spaces and deliver sustainable activities for communities across the UK.
Places Called Home will offer eligible groups funding awards of between £1,000 and £5,000 for activities and equipment that meet at least two of the following criteria:
- Build on the relationships created during the Covid-19 pandemic to increase community activity and the number of people taking part
- Encourage people to work together, creating opportunities for communities to live in a sustainable and healthy way
- Raise awareness amongst the public of the importance of connected households, neighbourhoods and resilient communities
- Develop a new idea, activity or way to come together that has emerged in response to the pandemic
- Revive or redesign community and common spaces to encourage shared community activities
Places Called Home opens for applications today, 22 June, and will close when it has received 1,500 applications or on 6 July 2021, whichever comes first.
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The following are eligible to apply:
- voluntary and community organisation
- constituted group or club
- registered charity
- charitable incorporated organisation (CIO)
- not-for-profit company
- community interest company (CIC)
- school (as long as your project benefits and involves the communities around
- the school)
- statutory body (including local authorities, town, parish and community
- council)
- community benefit society
More information is available on the National Lottery Community Fund site.
About Melanie May
Melanie May is a journalist and copywriter specialising in writing both for and about the charity and marketing services sectors since 2001. She can be reached via thepurplepim.com.