Lottery applications

There are six good causes which benefit from Lottery funding:

• sport
• the arts
• heritage
• millennium
• new opportunities fund focusing on health, education and the
• environment
• charities

If schools are considering an application to the Sports Lottery, they must firstly liaise with Asset Management and the Leisure and Culture Department. This is necessary as Sport England have recently indicated that they will no longer discuss bids with individual schools unless EPS (as the landlord) are involved.

Bids to the sixth body, the National Lottery Charities Board, are restricted to organisations established, “for charitable, benevolent or philanthropic purposes” and would therefore involve the school in partnership with associated voluntary organisations.

Recent changes made to the Lottery, particularly in the way distributors apply funds, mean that:

• the focus has shifted away from big building projects to people and activities;
  
  
• the requirement has been removed for significant levels of partnership funding, making it easier for less wealthy organisations and areas of the country to benefit;
  
  
• distributors are encouraged to look at how they can contribute to sustainable development and to reducing economic and social deprivation;
  
  
• all regions of the country and all parts of society can benefit from the lottery;
  
  
• the application process has been speeded up by allowing local distributors to have delegated powers.

Further information can be obtained by telephoning the following organisations.