National Lottery Charities Board Corporate Office

Communications

The Communications Directorate supports the Charities Board�s grant-making activity by ensuring that our audiences understand a number of key messages about the organisation.

1. The Charities Board�s mission and its purpose
2. How to apply to the Charities Board
3. The Charities Board�s values
4. The Charities Board�s successes and achievements

Our audiences include:

• The voluntary sector
• Potential and successful applicants
• The Lottery-playing public
• Government, Parliament and the other Lottery distributors
• the media and other opinion-formers

The communications department carries out a number of key functions:

• Design and development of the Charities Board�s website and the Intranet
• Grants announcements for UK, International and Health and social research (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland announcements are made at country level.)
• Provides press desk for national and voluntary sector media
• Produces Resource - a quarterly newsletter aimed at the voluntary sector
• Lobbying key opinion-formers
• Production of application packs for all grants programmes
• Production of Annual Report
• Production of information in other formats and languages
• Project management of marketing projects, such as the launch of Awards for All
• Production of all information leaflets and flyers
• Management of corporate events and attendance at third party events
• Grants acknowledgement and publicity materials for successful applicants
• Commissioning and managing corporate photo library