The National Lottery Community Fund Northern Ireland

The Big Lottery Fund is pleased to announce the appointment of Julie Harrison as the new Northern Ireland Chair to make decisions on how National Lottery funding is invested to improve people’s lives.

We are opening a new funding programme called People and Communities in January 2016. Tell us how we should shape it to best support local projects.

The Big Lottery Fund and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland have launched a £1.35 million programme to support the first UK City of Culture celebrations in Derry~Londonderry next year.

The Big Lottery Fund wants people across Northern Ireland to tell them what they think of proposals for a new programme to support local families. Have your say by filling out an online survey available at: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/northernireland

The deadline for organisations to get their outline proposal forms in for the Big Lottery Fund's Reaching Out: Connecting Older People programme is Wednesday 29th February 2012 at 5pm.

The Big Lottery Fund is holding a special Village SOS event in Birmingham on 27th February where people from Northern Ireland can get support and advice on creating social enterprises in rural communities

The Big Lottery Fund is holding a briefing event for NI organisations eligible to apply to its UK-wide Millennium Now programme. To see if you're eligible to attend go to the Registration page on our website www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/millenniumnow