National Lottery Charities Board England

Welcome to the National Lottery Charities Board England Office

The England Head Office is in Leicester and has two functions:

1. The England-wide grants team assess applications from national organisations working across England or in more than one region of the country.
2. The England Head Office team co-ordinate, manage and develop the Board�s decentralised operation in England, setting the standards and monitoring performance to ensure consistent and equal treatment for all applicants; we also evaluate the impact of grants awarded to ensure that they are adhering to our mission.

The organisations who apply to work across England are as diverse as the country itself ranging from well known charities such as the British Red Cross and the NSPCC to less well publicised national organisations such as Positively Women and Home Farm Trust.

The average size of grants for work across England is �150,000 compared to the regions' average of �80,000. This reflects the scale of work undertaken by organisations working nationally and their capacity to manage projects of this size. The largest grant made by the England wide team is �1,106,991 to homeless charity Shelter.

Our Director for England is Janet Paraskeva. She has overall responsibility for ensuring all 10 offices in the country are delivering our strategic priorities.

England Policy and Development Manager Vandna Gohil runs seminars and workshops for national organisations wishing to apply to the Board for work in more than one region or across the country. She also regularly liaises with a broad range of England based national voluntary sector support organisations. This enables the work of the Board to be promoted through their networks so the voluntary and community sector are fully aware of our grants programmes and how to apply.

In addition to making awards across the country, the England Committee will regularly monitor our grant awards to ensure that we are meeting the Board�s mission and fulfilling the aims of the relevant grants programme. Recently this has included commissioning research by leading academics to investigate the impact of our grants.