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Presentation overview
This presentation should help you to understand:
• the main features of Awards for All
• what Awards for All can and cannot fund
What will Awards for All fund?
Awards for All projects must meet at least one of BIG’s
outcomes:
• 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
Which small Lottery grants
scheme?
Each of the main Lottery distributors runs its own small
grants scheme. To decide which to apply for, think about:
• Will the main purpose of the project help to achieve
one of the four Awards for All outcomes?
or
• Is the main purpose of the project to support sports,
arts or heritage?
What does the outcomes
approach mean?
You need to think about:
• What changes do we want to make to the lives of the
people we want to help?
• How will those changes help achieve one or more of
the four Big Lottery Fund outcomes?
Who can apply to Awards for All?
You can apply if you are a:
• voluntary and community organisation
• school
• parish or town council
• health body
You cannot apply if you are a:
• individual or sole trader
• profit-making organisation
• statutory organisation other than those listed above
• organisation not established in the UK
You can apply if..
You have:
• at least 3 unrelated people on your governing body
• a UK bank account in the name of your organisation with
at least two unrelated signatories
You can:
• send BIG an application at least three months before
your project is planned to start
• complete your project within one year of when BIG
confirms your award
How much you can apply for?
• Between £300 and £10,000
• Only one application at a time
• One Awards for All funded project needs to be completed
and the End of Grant report approved before you can
apply again
• One organisation cannot receive more than £10,000 of
Awards for All grants in any one year period.
Repeat and ongoing activities
• Groups can now apply for funding for projects running
repeat and ongoing activities
• The applicant has to have an income of less than (or
equal to) £30,000 according to their accounts
What Awards for All can pay for?
Examples of what a grant could pay for:
• equipment hire or purchase
• information technology equipment
• building and refurbishment work
• sessional workers
• updating equipment and premises for health and safety
reasons
• training
• volunteer expenses
• transport costs
• venue hire
VAT and buildings
• BIG will only fund non-recoverable VAT.
• 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.
• Total costs of building works must not be more than
£25,000 (including VAT).
Awards for All cannot pay for
• Activities that happen or start before BIG confirms the
grant
• Day-to-day running costs
• Existing activities and repeat or regular events
• Items that mainly benefit an individual
• Building and refurbishment work costing more than
£25,000 (inc. VAT)
Awards for All cannot pay for
(continued)
• Salaries of permanent or fixed term staff
• Projects or activities that the state has a legal obligation to
provide
• Political or religious activities
• 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
30 working
days
You send the documents we ask for
20 working
days
We confirm the grant
10 working
days
You start your project
Application process (continued)
You read our guide
You send us your application
We let you know our decision
30 working
days
You send the documents we ask for
20 working
days
We confirm the grant
10 working
days
You start your project
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
Process and scoring of
applications
On receiving your application, a Funding Officer will score your
application
‘Points win prizes’ – scoring more
points increases your chances of
application
Certain parts of the application
amounts of points
a successful
score higher
Improving your chances
•Ways of scoring more points:
• groups that have a smaller annual income
• applications for smaller projects
• Question 15a and 15b
• Question 16a and 16b
• Question 17
Q15 – Evidencing Need
•What do we mean by need?
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What difficulties do people face?
Why is this?
What needs to change?
Why do you need to evidence need?
• High demand for limited resources
• Show that your project is the best way to meet the
communities needs
• Show that your project will make a difference
Q15 – What sources do you
use to evidence need?
Consultation
Community
profiles
Statistics
Research
(reports/surveys)
Evaluation
findings
Existing
services/current
provision
Strategies
Q16 - Getting People Involved
Marketing and Communications
• ensure your project reaches as many people as possible
• how you will promote or publicise your project
Being inclusive
• how you will make sure people from different backgrounds
• know about your project
• if there is valid reason why there may be a
• restriction on who will benefit from the project, explain here
Q17 – So what? Outcomes
Outcomes are all the changes and effects that actually happen as a
result of your work, expected or unexpected.
Applications score maximum points if they meet two outcomes, you
will not, therefore score more by trying to meet 3 or 4 outcomes
• People having better chances in life with better access to
and development to improve their life skills
training
• 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
Things to double-check
• Is the name of your organisation on your application form,
bank account and governing document exactly the same?
• Are you asking for an item or activities that Awards for All
can fund?
• Have you filled in all sections of the form?
• Does your main contact know all about your project?
• Will your main contact be available during the assessment
and grant confirmation period?
Make sure you allow enough time!
• BIG will take up to six weeks to assess the application
• If a conditional offer is made, additional documents will
be requested
• BIG will take up to two weeks to assess the additional
documents
• You must allow at least three months between
submitting your application and when you need your grant
Further information and advice
Website:www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Phone: BIG Advice Line 0845 4 10 20 30
Other Lottery distributors:
Arts Council England:
www.artscouncil.org.uk
Heritage Lottery Fund: www.hlf.org.uk
Sport England:
www.sportengland.org
Need Support
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BIG Advice Line 0845 4 10 20 30
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