Welcome/Intro/my role in NW and Ncl. Welcome/Intro/my role in NW and Ncl. If I don’t know the answer to anything I’ll get back to you. Don’t worry about writing down everything I say. Presentation and further guidance will be emailed to you. Please keep any general questions you have until the end of the presentation, we’ll be around for a while for project specific questions. The Big Lottery Fund is the largest distributor of lottery funding in the UK-giving approx £500 million per year. £4.4 billion to date. We have now reached £27 billion raised for the National Lottery good causes (Nov 2011). 1
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The two main streams of funding available at the moment The two main streams of funding available at the moment are Awards for All and Reaching Communities. This presentation will give you an overview of both Outcomes What makes a good application with hints and tips and common mistakes Activities – fun no need to worry! 2
Now, I mentioned at the start that I was from the Big Lottery Fund. Hopefully most of you have heard of Big Lottery Fund before, for those who haven’t I can tell you that Big Lottery Fund is the largest distributor of lottery funding in the UK-giving out approx £500million per year. So, does anyone have any idea how each lottery pound is divided up? How much of each pound you spend on the lottery do you think goes towards the prize fund? (50p) And how much to good causes? 28pence (BIG currently gets 13p which is 46%-the rest is distributed between the other lottery distributors, Arts Council, Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England) The remaining 22p is divided between the treasury which gets 12p, the shop who sold you the ticket who gets 5p and Camelot who get 5p for running the lottery. C. McGhee Nov 2011 3
One way of thinking about change for people is to imagine One way of thinking about change for people is to imagine one of your beneficiaries walking through the door to your organisation for the first time and then walking out again after a week, month, year.... • What are they doing when they first come in? How do they engage/not? How do you know they have needs? • How would you answer these questions at the end of the project? What’s the difference in terms of their skills, attitude or knowledge? 4
So for example, this is John. He has been referred to a So for example, this is John. He has been referred to a local charity by his doctor. He is an 18 year old with mental health issues. He lacks confidence and has low self esteem and so doesn’t go out or mix with his peers. He’s dropped out of education and has no job. 5
These are the changes that the group want to bring about These are the changes that the group want to bring about for John through their project. The general outcomes of the project. You will need to expand on these but they are the starting point. • He feels less isolated e.g. has made friends • He has shown an increase in confidence e.g. ventures out on his own • Increased self esteem e.g. he wants to get more involved with the project and has taken up new hobbies • He and his family have an increased understanding of the issues he has faced so they are able to work together to tackle these 6
The charity has recently seen a number of similar cases The charity has recently seen a number of similar cases and so decides to set up a series of activities to help people like John: • Drop in/coffee and chat – to help him feel less isolated • Accompanied walks to shops – to begin to build his confidence • Hill walking – to give him a sense of achievement, belief in himself (raised self esteem) • IT training (games, surfing, music, skills) – to begin to generate an interest in learning again • Expert speakers – to help him and his family to understand the issues he has and how he can overcome them 7
John leaves the project a very different man to when he John leaves the project a very different man to when he first walked through the door…. Perhaps he even wants to become involved in running the project to help others – beneficiary involvement…. 8
Some practical tips on how to write outcomes: Some practical tips on how to write outcomes: -Wording is important. The words need to indicate the fact that you’re working towards change, to emphasise this change use words like more, better, increased, reduced, improved. -Do your outcomes link logically to the need you have identified? - Are your outcomes short and clear? Structure - An easy way to think about outcomes is by thinking about who will benefit, how things will change, and what will change: 1. Who should relate to the people or organisations who will benefit, and should be specific e.g. Local families with autistic children. 2. ‘How’ should relate to change or difference, such as improving, reducing, expanding; 3. ‘What’ should tell us what is going to change – opportunities, skills, knowledge, confidence, access to 9 services.
You should ask yourself this question – if your outcome You should ask yourself this question – if your outcome answers the question then it is probably an outcome, if not what do you need to add? Outcome is not an activity or aim. So what example: Young people have increased access to physical activity – so what. Young people have increased access to physical activity leading to increased health and well-being. 10
BIG describes itself as an outcomes funder which means that we’re interested in the difference or change that your project is going to make to the lives of the the difference or change that your project is going to make to the lives of the beneficiaries. We are committed to bringing real improvements to communities, and to the lives of people most in need and have four organisational outcomes to help us achieve this. The programme outcomes for Awards for All and Reaching Communities are the same as our organisational outcomes. 11
A4A programme currently running at 55% success rate Incredibly popular small grants programme. Quick turnaround, small application form. £144m worth of grants across England. FUNDING: April 2010 – 31 Dec 2011 NW total of 52%. Average award £8,071 C. McGhee Nov 2011 12
Awards for All started back in 1999 to help fund projects to celebrate the new Millennium. However, it was so popular that it has continued, in various forms right up to today. For most of the time the programme has been run as a joint programme with the other lottery distributors-this meant that whatever type of project you wanted to run, be it arts, sports, education, environmental, health or heritage you could come to Awards for All to request funding. Today, Awards for All is no longer a joint programme, and it is delivered solely by Big Lottery Fund. Other funders run their own grants programmes so this means that you may need to go to another funder depending on what your project wants to do. In very simple terms, Arts Council England fund arts projects, Heritage Lottery Fund will make grants for historic or heritage projects and Sport England will fund sports projects. BUT And here’s where it gets a little complicated so listen up…if your project simply uses art or sport for example as a way of engaging with a particular audience, and the main focus of your project helps to address one of the outcomes of the Awards for All programme which I will mention later then you can still apply to Awards for All. For example: ‘Local FC’ want a grant to run a football coaching course for local children-to help them improve their game and techniques so they can compete in a local league. Such an application would need to go to Sport England, as it is primarily about developing sport. C. McGhee Nov 2011 13 However
So, who can apply to Awards for All? So, who can apply to Awards for All? Well, Awards for All is open to Voluntary Groups, Schools, Parish or Town councils and Health bodies. You don’t need to be a registered charity or company. Are there any Schools, Parish or Town Councils or Health Body representatives here today? If so, then it’s worth mentioning that although Awards for All can fund you, it cannot fund you for things that the state should normally pay for . That means no curriculum course books, no medical equipment etc. Also any project we fund schools for must take place outside of curriculum time-so either before/after school, lunchtimes, weekends or school holidays are fine! C. McGhee Nov 2011 14
Pls note that the two contacts on the application cannot be the same person. The senior contact MUST be a director or senior management committee member senior contact MUST be a director or senior management committee member (head teacher for schools). 15
Awards for All gives grants of between £300 and £10,000. Awards for All gives grants of between £300 and £10,000. Each organisation is able to have a maximum of £10,000 in a one year period. EOG must be signed off before you re- apply and this must be for a different project. Three years to apply for repeat activities. All grant money must be spent within 12 months! Also, each organisation is allowed to apply for and have one grant at a time. So, make sure what you are applying for is definitely what you need the most! Also, if you are from a larger organisation such as a school, make sure your project is definitely the priority as once you have the grant it will stop any other part of your organisation applying. C. McGhee Nov 2011 16
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