The deadline for applications is Wednesday 5 February 2025, 12 noon
The National Lottery Community Fund is looking for 10 to 15 partners to work with us in the development stage of its Community Power Fund. For this development stage, there is up to £1.2 million in funding available over one year. This work will shape how the Community Power Fund runs in the future. Each partner organisation will be funded between £50,000 and £80,000 for the development stage, which is expected to run between spring 2025 and spring 2026. As a partner, you’ll deliver activities in and with communities to increase their agency, power, and control. This can be new or existing work.
To be a partner organisation, you must:
- Have experience of going beyond engaging communities by doing work to increase their community power
- Work in and with communities that are the most excluded and marginalised and the least empowered
- Have experience of working in communities where the conditions are currently least suited to growing community power.
- Show how the values and approaches of community power are central to your work
- Be committed to working with the Funder and the other partners to shape the principles of the future programme. This may include joint learning sessions, hosting or attending visits, and more.
They are keen to hear from smaller community groups as well as larger or national organisations.
Click here to read more and apply