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The Community Fund and the New Opportunities Fund have merged to become the Big Lottery Fund.

31/01/05 Changes to Big Lottery Fund programmes - Northern Ireland

The Big Lottery Fund in Northern Ireland has announced important deadlines regarding its Voluntary and Community Funding programme (formerly known as Community Fund Large and Medium grants programmes). These are the important dates to remember if you wish to make an application :

31st March 2005 - last date to receive and return an outline proposal form
30 June 2005 - last date for receipt of applications forms.

20/12/04 New Northern Ireland application advice line and application distribution procedures

We have changed our application distribution process in order to improve our customer support services.

11/06/04 Lucky London gets over £2.6 million in Big Lottery Fund grants

The Big Lottery Fund in London is announcing its first grants for the region totalling over 2.6 million. The 24 grants are the first to follow the UK-wide launch of the new lottery good causes distributor on 1 June.

03/10/03 Community Fund gives young homeless people a chance

Young homeless people are to benefit from £94,151 worth of awards made by the Community Fund in the North East today to BUZZ Youth Project run by Community Campus ’87 (Cleveland) Ltd.

20/05/21 Community Fund gives families the support they need to keep their children on the rails

Families are to benefit from £133,425 worth of awards made by the Community Fund in the North East today to St Cuthbert’s Care.

21/05/04 Over £2.5 million of Lottery money for groups in the Yorkshire and Humber

Twenty-one groups throughout Yorkshire and the Humber received a grant announced today by the Community Fund, one of the National Lottery distributors. In total, £2,561,575 has been awarded to voluntary and community groups in our region.

21/05/04 Eleven groups have been successful in securing funding for their projects.

Two organisations to have benefited will support disabled people, and have a collective win of £199,419.

24/05/04 Scottish lottery money creating more opportunities for independent living

Organisations throughout Scotland are set to benefit from a cash injection of over £1.75m from the National Lottery.