The National Lottery Community Fund

Day

Wednesday 8 November

Time slot

15:00-16:00

This event took place over 1 year ago

Room

Kilsyth suite
Wheelchair accessible

Contact

Landa Sullivan
0300 123 7110

Topics

Funding & fundraising Families and communities

Overall aim

Our event will:

• introduce the four priority funding missions in our new UK wide strategy, It starts with community, which sets our funding ambitions from now until 2030
• encourage open, thoughtful conversations with the sector on how we can bring the strategy to life maximising impact for people and communities in Scotland
• seek your views on how we can reach those most in need with our funding, and ensure best practice with our equity, diversity, and inclusion ambitions.
• gather your insights and suggestions to help us develop of our new Scotland funding portfolio.

Description

Our new strategy, It Starts With Community, details our ambitions to deliver our funding to strengthen society and improve lives across the UK from now until 2030. During this time, we aim to make a bigger, bolder impact in four areas. These are: supporting communities to come together; be environmentally sustainable; help children and young people thrive and enable people to live healthier lives.

Feedback from our session at The Gathering in 2022 helped to shape this new strategy and now we want to hear your ideas on how we translate these four priority areas into the development of our new Scotland funding programmes.

With around £336 million to distribute in Scotland during this time and an ambition to invest most where the need is greatest, we want to hear your ideas on how we can best support you to help tackle issues such as poverty, growing inequality, and the climate emergency.

From small grants to larger scale partnership funding, there are lot of areas to explore as we start to develop our new funding programmes in the coming months.

This session will encourage open, thoughtful conversations that will draw on your knowledge, expertise and experience to help us ensure best practice in our future funding and a Scotland funding offers that meets the needs of the sector and those people and communities it supports.

Who was the event aimed at?

Public

Who spoke at this event?

Neil Ritch, Scotland Director of The National Lottery Community Fund
Landa Sullivan, Scotland Head of Communications and Engagement at the The National Lottery Community Fund.