Getting grants

You need to show how your project or activity will:

• Bring people together and build strong relationships in and across communities
• Improve the places and spaces that matter to communities
• Enable more people to fulfil their potential by working to address issues at the earliest possible stage

A kneeler project designed and delivered by members of your local community for your church – ie your local community building – will probably feature weekly meetings for stitchers and designers for mutual help and encouragement. This enhances designing and stitching skills – ie enabling ‘more people to fulfil their potential’ – and certainly provides an opportunity to reduce loneliness. Your kneeler project is ideally eligible for a community grant.

Go to The National Lottery Community Fund. Read the guidance notes and fill in the application form.