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Awards for All
Jenny Fish
Funding Officer: Early Contact team
Today’s Learning
─ You will have a better understanding of the Big Lottery
Fund, and of the current funding environment.
─ You will have a better understanding of Awards for All,
and if it is the right programme for you.
─ You will have an increased understanding of how to
strengthen your application, and greater confidence to
apply.
Understanding the Funder :How
the Lottery pound is spent
─ Camelot (0.5 pence)
─ Prize money (50 pence)
─ Taxes (12 pence)
─ Retailer (5 pence)
─ Administration (4.5 pence)
─ Good causes (28 pence)
Understanding the Funder
Big Lottery Fund: Mission Statement
‘Bringing about real change to communities and to the lives
of those most in need’
Big Lottery Fund is an Outcomes
Funder: About changing lives
As a funder there are four broad outcomes or changes we
expect lottery funding to achieve:
Outcome 1
Outcome 2
Outcome 3
Outcome 4
People having
better chances in
life, with better
access to training
and development to
improve their life
skills
Stronger
communities, with
more active
citizens, working
together to tackle
their problems
Improved rural
and urban
environments,
which
communities are
better able to
access and enjoy
Healthier and
more active
people and
communities
Understanding The Funding
Environment
Snapshot: Awards for All programme Statistics
2013-2014
Total Request – £102,134,953
Total Award – £63,234,998
Success rate – 63.34%
We awarded Devon Groups a total of £1,082,786, received
189 applications of which 135 were successful, giving a
success rate of 71% with Torridge receiving £61,759
Crafty Old Ladies Project!
The Bideford Ladies Group was
awarded £350 from Awards for
All to run a range of arts and
crafts sessions for older ladies.
This will increase the range of
activities the group runs and help
reduce beneficiaries' feelings of
isolation by participating in a
mentally stimulating and social
activity.
Petrockstowe Parish Hall
With £6,912 from Awards for All,
this group used the funding to
refurbish their parish hall and
addressed issues surrounding rural
isolation. The aim was to
encourage wider use by local
community in order to become
more socially active and improve
their wellbeing.
Awards for All:
Any project applying to Awards
for All must meet at least one of BIG’s outcomes:
You can apply if...
─ You have at least 3 unrelated people on your governing body
─ Do a document check, easy as ABC - Annual accounts (or a 12
month projection), a UK Bank account in the name of your
organisation with at least two unrelated signatories, a written
Constitution.
─ complete your project within one year of when BIG confirms your
award
─ Plan to submit your application at least three months before your
project is planned to start
Please read - Guide to
accepting a
conditional offer
Awards for All - How much can
you apply for?
Between £300 and £10,000
Only one application at a
time
One organisation can receive
up to £10,000 in any one
year period.
Project needs to be
completed and the End of
Grant report approved
before you can apply again
What can Awards for All pay for?
Examples of what a grant could pay for:
─ equipment hire or purchase e.g. information technology equipment
─ sessional workers
─ building and refurbishment work
─ updating equipment and premises for health and safety reasons
─ training
─ volunteer expenses
─ transport costs
─ venue hire
Village Hall - Kitchen Opening
Specific criteria for buildings
─ Total costs of building works must not be more than
£25,000 (including VAT). However, we will fund feasibility
studies for potentially larger projects.
─ Any planning permission needed must be in place before
making an application.
─ For building projects, applicants must own their own
freehold or hold a lease that will continue for at least five
years.
─ BIG will only fund non-recoverable VAT.
Examples of what Awards for All
cannot pay for:
─ Activities that happen or start before BIG confirms the
grant
─ Day-to-day running costs
─ Salaries of permanent or fixed term staff
─ Items that mainly benefit an individual
─ Political or religious activities
─ NB Good news is that we now fund repeat activities for
small groups with under £30,000 income (also larger
groups if delivery is to a new beneficiary group or in a
different area)
Awards for All cannot pay for:
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─ Projects or activities that the state has a legal obligation
to provide
─ Routine repairs and maintenance
─ Fundraising activities
─ Used vehicles
Application process
You read our guide
You send us your application
We let you know our decision
You send the documents we ask for
We confirm the grant
You start your project
60
20
40
• working days
• working days
• working days
Awards for All - Improving your
chances
BIG scores applications to help decide who should be
funded. Applications will score higher if they:
─ show strong evidence of need
─ seek to involve as wide a range of people as possible
─ meet more than one of our outcomes
─ are from groups that have never received an Awards for All
grant
─ are from groups with a smaller annual income
─ are for smaller projects
The scoring guide used
to assess Awards for All is
on the website
Common Mistakes
─ Applications incomplete on first submission
─ Not returning requested documents at conditional offer
stage.
─ Asking for funding for a project more suited to another
Lottery funder e.g. A heritage or sports project
─ Asking for something we are unable to fund e.g. Salaries
‘Guide to accepting a
conditional grant offer’ on
website
Most Common Reject Reasons
•Not evidencing the Need for a project
•Not identifying the outcomes, or changes, the
project will make and not linking these to Big
Lottery Fund outcomes
A key concern for Big Lottery Fund will be
to understand why your is project needed?
•When writing your
application take time to paint
a vivid picture in words,
which clearly demonstrates
why your project is needed.
•Make sure you tell us all
about the problems or issues
your group aims to address.
What sources can you use to
evidence need?
─ Strategies - generic and specialist
─ Statistics and area or community profile
─ Research (reports, surveys etc)
─ Consultation and community involvement
─ Other existing services/current provision (or lack of)
─ Evaluation of existing services
─ Letters of support
Explaining outcomes, the
difference or changes your
project makes
18 years old, mental
health issues, dropped
out of education and
training, sits at home
isolated from peers,
lacks confidence, has
low self esteem.
Explaining outcomes
Activities:
•Drop in/coffee and chat
•Accompanied walks to shops
•Hill walking
•IT training (games, surfing, music)
•Expert speakers
18 years old, mental
health issues, sits at
home isolated from
peers, lacks
confidence, low self
esteem, dropped out
of education/training
Explaining outcomes
Activities:
•Drop in/coffee and chat
•Accompanied walks to shops
•Hill walking
•IT training (games, surfing, music)
•Expert speakers
Project outcomes:
•YP with mental health
issues:
•feel less socially isolated
18 years old, mental
•Increase confidence
health issues, sits at
•Increase self esteem
home isolated from
•Increase skills
peers, lacks
•Increase understanding of
confidence, low self
their illness and how to
esteem, dropped out
manage it
of education/training
Explaining outcomes
Activities:
•Drop in/coffee and chat
•Accompanied walks to shops
•Hill walking
•IT training (games, surfing, music)
•Expert speakers
The project outcomes or
changes:
•YP with mental health
Links to
issues:
18 years old, mental
•feel less isolated,
health issues, sits at
experience a decrease in
home isolated from
social isolation
peers, lacks
Programme outcomes: •Increase confidence
confidence, low self
•Healthier and more
•Increase self esteem
esteem, dropped out
active people
•Increase skills
of education/training
•People having better •Increase understanding of
chances in life
their illness and how to
manage it
Explaining outcomes
18 years old, mental
health issues, sits at
home isolated from
peers, lacks
confidence, low self
esteem, dropped out
of education/training
Activities:
•Drop in/coffee and chat
•Accompanied walks to shops
•Hill walking
•IT training (games, surfing, music)
•Expert speakers
Project outcomes:
•Feels less isolated
•Increase in confidence
Links to
•Increased self esteem
•Increased skills
•Increased understanding
Programme outcomes:
•Healthier and more
active people
•People having better
chances in life
BIG Websites –
where to find out more
 www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Big Advice Line: 01913761600
Textphone: 0845 6 02 16 59
Email: [email protected]
Thank you.
Any questions...