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Big Lottery £2m set aside for People and Places 31/03/10
Posted on Friday, February 19, 2010
[lang_en][/lang_en][lang_cy][/lang_cy]People and Places: Addressing the economic downturn in Wales
Revitalising communities in Wales by giving people improved access to support services
Summary of the programme
During the past 18 months, we have seen the impact the economic downturn has had on communities in Wales.
Following on from our first round of initiatives launched in August 2009, we have set aside a further £2 million to be allocated during the financial year ending 31st March 2011. You can apply for this through our existing People and Places programme fora limited period.
We want the projects that receive this extra funding to revitalise communities by giving people improved access to support services.
What can we fund?
As we have limited funds available we have looked carefully at where this extra money can make a big difference.
Under this second round, we have decided to prioritise Voluntary and Community Sector organisations providing services that are supporting vulnerable families and children living in poverty, including (but not limited to) the following:
- support to vulnerable families including those at risk of breakdown, and in crisis
- support to vulnerable children, including those at risk of offending or already engaged with the criminal justice system
- support to families and children living in poverty, including food co-operatives, clothes recycling schemes, nutrition and dietary advice
- support to victims of domestic violence
- support to young carers
- support to those affected by substance misuse
- support to children where a parent is in custody.
What are the timescales?
We want to fund projects that start to address the impact of the recession as soon as possible, so we have set some deadlines for receiving applications.
For this round these are:
- 1pm on Wednesday, 31 March 2010 – Deadline for receiving a complete Outline Proposal form, with supporting information.
- Friday, 30 April 2010 – We aim to respond to all Outline Proposals by this date.
- 1pm on Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Deadline for receipt of completed full applications, with supporting information.
- Friday 29 October 2010 - We will tell you our decision by this date.
These deadlines do not affect other applications under the People and Places programme.
For more information, go to the Big Lottery website: Link here, or call their national helpline for advice on 02920 678 200, Email enquiries.wales@biglotteryfund.org.uk.
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