# National Lottery opens community related Places Called Home funding programme

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/06/30/national-lottery-opens-community-related-places-called-home-funding-programme/
- Published: 2021-06-30T10:00:00+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**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](https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding)
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](https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding).

 * **[David Knott announced as National Lottery Community Fund CEO](https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/10/19/david-knott-announced-as-national-lottery-community-fund-ceo/)**(
   19 October 2021)
 * **[Communities across England have received over £100mn of National Lottery funding in last 3 months](https://fundraising.co.uk/2022/06/23/communities-across-england-have-received-over-100mn-of-national-lottery-funding-in-last-3-months/)**(
   23 June 2022)
 * **[The People’s Projects funding programme returns after 3-year break](https://fundraising.co.uk/2022/09/06/the-peoples-projects-funding-programme-returns-after-3-year-break/)**(
   6 September 2022)