Important update on Awards for All

Awards for All from the National Lottery Fund is a quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding.

All the funding decisions they make for the next six months will prioritise addressing the current crisis. Across their England funding programmes, National Lottery Awards will prioritise applications that are COVID-19 related.

This means they will prioritise applications from:

• Organisations supporting people who are at high risk from COVID-19
• Organisations supporting communities most likely to face increased demand and challenges as a direct result of measures to prevent the result of COVID-19
• Organisations with high potential to support communities with the direct and indirect impact of COVID-19

They have also updated their eligibility guidelines, you can now apply for Awards for All funding even if you already have a current grant from them if ONE of the applications is for a COVID-19 related project.

The full wording is below:

Who we can’t accept applications from:

• organisations that currently have National Lottery Awards for All funding, unless one of your applications/existing grants is a COVID-19 related project. We are allowing groups to hold up to a maximum of two awards within a 12-month period if one of them is a COVID-19 related project. If your organisation has National Lottery Awards grants in other countries in the UK, the maximum number of grants you can hold is one for each country, and one additional COVID-19 related grant

Find out more and apply here.