Lottery cash for groups

The programme offers community, voluntary and statutory groups the chance to apply for grants of between 500 and 10,000 to run projects to improve local people’s lives such as healthy eating courses for women, social trips for people with disabilities, and computer courses for people in rural areas.

Groups can now apply for lottery cash of up to 20,000 in a 12-month period to organise projects but a group can only hold one award of up to 10,000 for a project at any one time, and the organisation must have spent the grant before applying for more funding.

Coleraine groups already benefiting from Awards For All funding include Playtime after-schools club which was awarded 8,906 in August ‘09 to run arts and crafts, dancercise and yoga classes for pupils, while Coleraine Festival Committee got a 9,879 grant in May ‘10 to run a programme of festival events.

To find out more and download application forms and guidance notes visit www.awardsforall.org.uk, or contact 028 9055 1455, or e-mail [email protected]