Big Lottery Fund: Impact of Alcohol Programme
Overview
Big Lottery will make grants to statutory, voluntary and community organisations for a range of projects that will help them achieve this outcome. They will also use the experience and expertise of the Public Health Agency, each of the five Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Trusts and their partners to ensure that this programme is delivered successfully.
The programme will be delivered via two processes:
Portfolio grants
There has been £7 million allocated to the Health and Social Care Trusts to allow them to work with voluntary and community organisations to deliver portfolios of projects, over four years, within their Trust area.
Portfolios will be made up of different individual projects, usually delivered at a number of locations, which together will form a cohesive strategy to deliver the programme outcome.
Who can apply to Portfolio grants?
The responsibility for developing a portfolio of projects is with the Health and Social Care Trusts, which will identify organisations that will meet the programme outcomes.
Each Health and Social Care Trust has received a development proposal form in the Impact of Alcohol portfolio grants application pack. The deadline for returning the completed forms is noon on Friday 14 January 2011. They will process these proposals within two months. The Health Trusts will work with stakeholders to determine their priorities and how best to meet them and portfolio applications will need to be with us by 3 October 2011 and they will let people know about their decision by March 2013.
Northern Ireland-wide grants
There has been £3 million allocated to make direct grants to voluntary and community sector organisations to run projects across Northern Ireland. Projects must take place in more than one of the Health and Social Care Trust areas.
BIG will send Northern Ireland-wide strand stage one application forms and guidance notes to organisations by Monday 16 May 2011
For Northern Ireland-wide grants, they will only fund organisations from the Voluntary and Community Sector. Applicants must be:
- an unincorporated association, trust or company set up and registered as a charity
- an unincorporated association set up as a voluntary and community group
- a community interest company
- a not for profit company limited by guarantee
- a community benefit society
- an organisation recognised by HM Revenue and Customs as exempt for tax purposes.
Example Projects
Projects can be new work and activities, an enhancement of existing work and activities, or a combination of new and existing activities. Examples of the kind of work they could support include projects that:
- raise awareness of the impact of alcohol misuse on the mental health of the immediate and wider family, friends, community and society as a whole
- provide support for the family members of those who misuse alcohol by, for example, giving children and young people opportunities to meet others in the same situation as them, improving their social networks and supporting good mental health
- provide support for those at greatest risk of alcohol misuse
- encourage improved relationships within families affected by alcohol misuse
- provide support to those who misuse alcohol by encouraging a non-judgemental approach, where people don’t feel discriminated against or stigmatised
- support advocacy work aimed at changing society’s attitudes
NI-wide projects must deliver to individuals, families and communities. Individual projects funded within the portfolio can deliver to only one of these categories but the portfolio as a whole must achieve an outcome across all three categories.
How to apply
Please visit the website for full details.