Big Lottery Fund News

The Big Lottery Fund has now distributed £100m of funding through its People and Places scheme in Wales following its latest round of grants.

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The Big Lottery Fund will distribute £25m of funds to a range of nationwide projects designed to help young people avoid becoming offenders.

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England director Dharmendra Kanani says the BLF will put hundreds of millions of pounds into initiatives lasting up to eight years

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Tuesday 27 March 2012 saw the official launch of Crossroads ‘In Your Prime’ Project in their state of the art premises at 432 Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast. TV Presenter and journalist Lynda Bryans officially launched the project and highlighted the aims along with the project objectives.

As the Race Online 2012 campaign comes to an end, the UK digital champion Martha Lane Fox today launches Go On UK with Age UK and Big Lottery Fund as two of its founding partners.

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The Big Lottery Fund is to allocate 0.7 per cent of its budget this financial year to social investment.

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Nick O'Donohoe, chief executive of BSC, says he hopes the funding will attract new investors to the social sector

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HRH the Prince of Wales hosted a meeting last month with some of his charities to discuss the future of social impact bonds, including measures to expand the model in the homelessness sector. 

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The Big Lottery Fund has invested £7.2m in a social action support service launched by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust to encourage young people to "change things for the better".

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The Big Lottery Fund aims to be much less prescriptive and more flexible than it has been in the past, say its chair and chief executive. And it is planning a new 'bright ideas' type programme. Tania Mason reports.

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