Charity and Voluntary Sector
BIG: The Big Lottery Fund is urging organisations &individuals across the UK to engage in the debate on how BIG’s funding should be allocated through its grant programmes between 2009 and 2015. BIG is expecting to distribute over £2bn over the coming years.
Big thinking, the Fund’s public consultation (closes on 27 February 2009) is open to all individuals & organisations across the UK. It is giving everyone the chance to have their say through a series of national, regional and local face-to-face events and online channels including questionnaires, blogs and videos.
Central to the public consultation will be ten ‘BIG Questions’ plus specific questions to reflect the individual priorities of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
BIG: Time has run out for 142 local communities across the UK who are competing this week in their ITV regions for the public vote to win a share of Big Lottery Fund good cause cash worth £5m. The groups will all be competing head-to-head in November for awards of up to £50,000 in The People’s Millions TV contest to be showcased next week on ITV regional evening news.
Each night two good cause groups will battle it out on regional news programmes across each of the 18 ITV regions and at the end of the week 89 projects will take a share of £5m of lottery funding. The best runner-up in each region that chalks up the next best number of phone votes will be the fifth winner announced on Friday, 28 November.
