Reaching Communities Programme (England)
The BIG Lottery Fund has announced that in response to the current economic crisis it is increasing the budget for its Reaching Communities programme in 2009 – 10 by £20 million to £80 million. Reaching Communities provides grants of between £10,000 and £500,000 to support projects that help people and communities who are most in need, and can really make a difference. This increase in funding is designed to act as a ‘bridge’ between BIG’s current funding programmes and BIG’s new Open Funding stream which will go live in 2010. Projects funded through Reaching Communities can be new or existing activities, or be the core work of an organisation.
The programme is open to registered charities, charitable or not for profit companies, statutory bodies, schools and social enterprises.
Applications can be submitted at any time.
