National Lottery Community Fund: The Platinum Jubilee Fund

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Track grant Notes

Overview

They want to fund projects that create a greater legacy for our places and spaces, and that support new opportunities, activities and build better relationships with one another, across generations and with the natural world.

The three areas of focus are:

1. Across Generations - Strengthening relationships between generations and creating a legacy for future generations.

Projects that connect people across generations through doing activities together
Projects that consider future generations and how the Jubilee can leave a legacy for them in the community
Projects designed and led by young people who want to be more active in shaping the future of their communities.

2. Community Renewal - Supporting new opportunities for people to develop skills and experiences in their local community, as well as opportunities to bring people together in new ways, and in new or different places and spaces.

Projects making use of significant local sites or spaces – parks, heritage buildings, community spaces etc.
Projects creating new opportunities for the people that live locally to contribute and/or to build skills and experiences
Projects starting something new (a set of activities, a group, a community space, a service, a network) that marks the Jubilee as a turning point in the community.

3. Our Shared Natural World - Growing our care and action locally for the natural world.

Projects initiating collective action in relation to the natural world locally - giving more people the opportunity to care for the planet at a local level

Funding Priorities

Across the applications, they will be looking for and prioritising projects that:

draw on the creativity of the community
want to do something new and inventive
bring new opportunities
make use of sites of local significance
use multiple channels through which people can participate,
that will have impact on more than one of the above areas of focus, and
they are especially keen to see applications led by young people.

They will prioritise applications from groups who:

have not received funding from them before
do not have a current award with them
are smaller or medium sized organisations or groups with an annual turnover of under £100,000
or are organisations that can demonstrate to them that they have significant reach into communities and are able to engage a large number of people to get involved
work in communities where there is a history of fewer funding opportunities.
work in areas where they know communities face challenging economic circumstances.

Other organisations can apply but please consider these factors before you take the time to apply.

Who can apply?

You can apply if you are a:

voluntary or community organisation
registered charity
constituted group or club
not-for-profit company or Community Interest Company
school (as long as your project benefits and involves the communities around the school)
statutory body (including town, parish, community council or local council).

Funding Size & Eligible costs

They can pay for activities or items, costing between £30,000 - £50,000 that meet at least two of the funding criteria.

You must spend the money within two years of your award.

This list does not include everything. So, if you're not sure contact them.

They can fund:

events and activity costs (though not celebratory or one off events)
equipment and materials
staff costs 
people’s time (that may not be staff)
training costs 
transport 
utilities/running costs related to your idea 
volunteer expenses 
translation costs (for example, into other languages like Welsh)

You should consider the environmental impact of your project and try to reuse, reduce and recycle where possible.

Subsidy Compliant

They also need to ensure that their funding is subsidy compliant

This means that they must ensure that their grant funding does not potentially cause a distortion in, or harm to competition, trade or investment in the UK and international market, by conferring a benefit (ie: economic advantage) on a grant recipient that is not on market terms.

If your project involves some form of economic activity (for example, your project is a café or some other revenue generating activity), please contact them to discuss whether subsidy will apply. In many cases, it may be that they can fund your project, via a route provided under the Subsidy Control Regime.

Funding Criteria

Your project will need to meet at least two of these criteria:

connects people across generations through doing activities together
makes use of significant local sites or spaces – parks, heritage buildings, community spaces etc.
considers future generations and how the Jubilee can leave a legacy for them in the community
creates new opportunities for the people that live locally to contribute and/or to build skills and experience
starts something new (a set of activities, a group, a community space, a service, a network) that marks the Jubilee as a turning point in the community
is designed and led by young people who want to be more active in shaping the future of their communities
starts collective action in relation to the natural world locally - giving more people the opportunity to care for the planet at a local level

Notes

You can apply if you have a current grant from The National Lottery Community Fund. They will consider how this funding would complement and impact on existing awards during the assessment process.
They recognise that activities will need to respond to specific lockdown rules and regulations. They also know these are likely to vary across the UK. They understand that projects will need to stay flexible about what they are able to do. They will be as flexible as they can.
They will support a range of projects and are keen that projects reflect a mix of communities and places from across the UK. They will make sure there’s a geographical spread of funding across the UK and a range of activities being delivered across the projects.
They will take this into account when assessing your application against others that they receive.
You must involve your community in your project
They believe that people understand what's needed in their communities better than anyone else. It’s important to them that you involve your community in the design, development, and delivery of the activities you’re planning.
In order to try and manage demand they have taken the difficult decision to only accept up to 700 applications (or close to applications on 15 December 2021 if this comes sooner). All applications received will be assessed at the same time.
Funded projects will need to be up and running by Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Central Weekend on 5 June 2022.
They plan to make their final decisions on which projects to fund in Spring 2022. So, they would expect the projects they fund under this programme to start in Spring 2022 onwards.
They will work with all funded projects so that they can publicly share and uplift your work by the Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Central Weekend on 4 and 5 June 2022.