Big Lottery Fund (BIG) distributes half of the funding the National Lottery raises for good causes. Our funding covers health, the environment, education and charitable purposes.
Our mission is to bring real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need.
To achieve this, we have seven values that underpin all our work:
- fairness - putting equality and diversity at the heart of our work
- accessibility - making it easier to access our funding and providing help to grant applicants and recipients
- strategic focus - working in partnership and joining up with existing strategies, developing programmes that are focused on the outcomes and the difference they make for communities
- involving people - involving local communities in our work and making sure the public know and care about our work
- innovation - building evidence-based programmes, sharing what we learn and considering new ways of making grants
- enabling - working with communities, partners and other funders to help achieve lasting change
- additional to Government - ensuring our funding is distinct from Government funding and adds value.
Since we launched BIG in 2004 we have distributed over £2.7 billion to thousands of projects across the UK.
We award close to £2 million in lottery good cause money every 24 hours, which together with other Lottery distributors means that across the UK most people are within a few miles of a Lottery-funded project.
To learn more about BIG, our funding programmes and projects please visit our website at www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
You can also get involved with Big thinking via your favourite social networking sites. Why not visit us at Facebook (Group name – BIG Mouth), Bebo (Profile name – SirCliveB), our Youtube channel and at Twitter.
To find out about other Lottery funding please visit www.lotteryfunding.org.uk