Lesley OwenJones

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Lesley Owen-Jones

• Regional Policy Advisor
• East Midlands

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Introduction

• Overview of the themes and outcomes
• Introduction to our future programmes
• Our current programmes
• Updates and contacts

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Themes

• Our range of new funding programmes will all fit
  within a set of broad themes and outcomes
• Supporting community learning and creating
  opportunity
• Promoting community safety and cohesion
• Promoting well-being

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Outcomes

• People having better chances in life, with better
  access to training and development to improve
  their life skills
• Stronger communities, with more active citizens,
  working together to tackle their problems
• Improved rural and urban environments, which
  communities are better able to access and enjoy
• Healthier and more active people and communities

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Programme Development

• A framework for delivering new programmes for
  2005 2009
• This includes a range of Strategic programmes and
  a specific Demand-led funding programme
• The themes, outcomes and the programmes we are
  developing come out of our consultations

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Future Programmes

• Divide into two broad areas
• Strategic focusing upon the outcomes we want
  our funding to achieve
• Demand-led focusing upon encouraging
  organisations to bring their own ideas and
  solutions to local issues

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Strategic Programmes

• These are the first of a range of Strategic
  programmes to be announced
• Childrens Play programme
• Environmental programmes
• Wellbeing programmes
• Voluntary and Community Sector Infrastructure
• Community Learning
• Advice services
• Community Buildings

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Childrens Play Programme

• Up to 155 million over three years in England
  to be launched in Early 2006
• 80 of the funding will be used to develop free,
  open-access, supervised play provision
• 20 remaining will be divided between
• An innovation fund to support developments in
  planning, design and delivery
• A regional support and development infrastructure

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Wellbeing Programme

• Up to 165 million for Wellbeing programmes
• Wellbeing has been defined as good physical and
  emotional health
• Aim to support healthier and more active people
  and communities
• Healthier lifestyles through community sport,
  physical activity and active travel
• Mental health and alcohol reduction
• Healthy eating for young people, their families
  and wider communities

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Environmental Programmes

• Up to 350 million over three years to be
  launched in November 2005
• These will focus upon four main areas
• Parks programme
• Community space projects
• Local community enterprise and
• Access to the natural environment
• The Parks programme will build on the success of
  the Heritage Lottery Funds Public Parks
  Initiative

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Voluntary Community Sector Infrastructure
Programme

• Up to 150 million to support advice services -
  to be launched by June 2006
• This will focus upon seven main areas
• Financing Advice
• Resource Centres
• New Generic Infrastructure
• Sharing Learning
• Governance
• Influencing and
• Management

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Community Learning

• Up to 140 million to support two programmes
  under the heading Community Learning
• Community Libraries to support the development
  of a number of flagship community libraries
• Family Learning focusing upon how families can
  improve numeracy, language and literacy skills
• To be launched by June 2006

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Advice Services

• Up to 50 million to support Advice services to
  be launched by June 2006
• The programme will have three main areas
• Improving the infrastructure of advice services
• Strategic service delivery
• Local innovation, planning and partnerships

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Community Buildings

• Up to 50 million over 3 years to support
  Community Buildings to be launched by June 2006
• Supporting community buildings which have high
  levels of community engagement and use
• Working with ACRE, Community Matters, BASSAC and
  the Development Trusts Association

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Reaching Communities

• Demand-led programme will account for one third
  of all funding UK-wide
• Learning from the legacy organisations
• Possibility of 5-year funding and grants of up to
  500,000
• To adopt full cost recovery
• Emphasis on projects identifying needs and
  offering solutions to local issues

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New Programmes

• Programmes are to be launched on a staggered
  basis during the next year
• There are also Research and International grants
  programmes
• Programmes delivered in the best way to achieve
  the outcomes

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Current Programmes

• Peoples Millions
• Living Landmarks
• Young Peoples Fund
• Awards for All
• Reaching Communities

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Peoples Millions

• Funding projects that aim to improve the quality
  of life of local communities by
• Make the local environment cleaner, safer or
  greener
• Improve the local natural environment
• Improve the design / appearance / accessibility
  of local amenities
• 15 million over three years
• Further rounds to be open over the next two years

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Living Landmarks

• Open to a wide range of organisations
• Two parts to this funding
• a small number of grants between 10 - 25
  million
• a single grant of between 25 - 50 million
• Projects must transform, regenerate and
  revitalise your community

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Young Peoples Fund

• Supporting projects that put young people at the
  centre of creating, planning and running projects
• That target the following outcomes
• Being healthy
• Staying safe
• Enjoying and achieving
• Making a positive contribution
• Economic well being

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Young Peoples Fund

• Three strands within the programme
• Grants to individual young people - 250 - 5,000
• Grants to organisations locally - 5,000 -
  150,000
• Grants to national organisations - in the region
  of 1million

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Awards for All

• Supports a wide range of projects that involve
  community activity and meet at least one of the
  following aims
• Extend access and participation
• Increase skill and creativity
• Improve the quality of life
• Grants between 500 and 5,000 for small groups
  and local community projects
• Increase to a maximum of 10,000 in 2006

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Awards for All

• Change to procedures
• Documents provided all need to be in the same
  name (Accounts, bank statement, Constitution)
• Require last 3 months bank statements and a bank
  form
• Referee must come from the approved list
• A4A Enquiries line 0115 934 9304

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Tips for applicants

• Define the need
• Focus upon the outcomes from the start
• Links to relevant strategies - geographic and
  field
• If there are similar organisations in the area
  get their view maybe work together
• Get a critical friend to read and comment on the
  bid
• Speak to us and ask us questions

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Big Lottery Fund - Structure

• 2 Operational centres
• Birmingham and Newcastle
• 9 England regional offices
• Carrying out policy and external relations
  functions

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East Midlands region
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Lottery Funding

• Joint website covering all the lottery
  distributors
• To help people identify
• Which lottery distributor to apply to?
• Which programme?
• Website includes
• Funding search
• Distributor overviews
• Information sheets, QAs, and sources of further
  help

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Lottery Funding

• Phone line for those without access to the web
• Further development of the content and structure
• Live at the end of the year
• Public launch early 2006

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Further Information

• Big Lottery Fund website
• www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
• Helpline
• 0845 4 10 20 30
• East Midlands region 0115 934 9300
• Mick McGrath Head of Region
• Sarah Collis Regional Policy Adviser
• Lesley Owen-Jones Regional Policy Adviser
• James Kirkpatrick Regional Development Officer

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Any Questions?