Other Big Lottery Fund projects

There are several other organisations that have been awarded funds by the Big Lottery Fund. Following is a short outline of the other award partners and their aims. If their funding objectives are more in line with your project aims, you can go directly to their websites to find out more information.

Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts - Local Food
www.localfoodgrants.org

To make locally grown food accessible and affordable to local communities.
To support a variety of food-related projects to help strengthen local communities.
Grants from £2,000 up to £500,000.
Projects to include growing, processing, marketing and distributing local food, composting and raising awareness of the benefits of such activities.

Groundwork UK - Community Spaces
www.community-spaces.org.uk

Empowering people to improve public spaces in their neighbourhood.
Responding directly to people's aspirations to have better places on their doorsteps.
More interesting places for children to play.
Safer places for people of all ages to sit.
Greener spaces where people and nature can grow and flourish.

Building Research Establishment - Community Sustainable Energy Programme (CSEP)
www.communitysustainable.org.uk

Aim to support the development of sustainable energy installations in local communities in England.
Local communities are the main stakeholders.
Buildings such as village halls, community centres, places of worship, visitor centers, and activity centres.
Free standing installations such as wind turbines and small scale biomass boilers.

Natural England - Access to Nature
www.naturalengland.org.uk/accesstonature

Encourage people from all background's to understand, access, and enjoy the natural environment.
Funding projects that will bring a lasting change in areas of high social, economic, and/or environmental deprivation.
Grants from £50,000 up to £500,000.
Three broad themes: community awareness and active participation; education, learning and volunteering; welcoming, well-managed and wildlife-rich places.

Mind is also involved in another exciting programme:

Time to Change
www.time-to-change.org.uk

Time to Change is England's most ambitious programme to end the discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems, as well as improve the nation's wellbeing.

Mental Health Media, Mind, and Rethink are leading this programme of 35 projects, funded with £16m from the Big Lottery Fund and £2m from Comic Relief and evaluated by the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College, London.

The programme is founded on an international evidence base, and has people with direct experience of mental health problems at its heart. Local community projects work alongside a national high-profile campaign, a mass-participation physical activity week, legal test cases, training for student doctors and teachers, and a network of grassroots activists combating discrimination.

Time to Change aims to work in partnership with all sectors and communities in order to tackle a long lingering taboo and one of the greatest social injustices.

Time to Get Moving
www.getmovingweek.org.uk

Time to Get Moving is a week of physical activity events in October to promote the benefits of being active for mental wellbeing and brings people together for social physical activity. Time to Get Moving is part of the groundbreaking programme Time to Change aiming to reduce the stigma and discrimination around mental health.

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Other Big Lottery Fund projects