North London CVS Partnership

This section offers information about funding for voluntary and community groups in North London. Details are given of funding programmes for London-specific, sub-regional or cross-borough projects.

For information on local programmes and borough-specific funding, please contact your local CVS.

Further information and websites offering more generic funding links and advice, and organisations offering other kinds of support can be found here

Current Funding News and Opportunities

The Big Lottery Fund

The Big Lottery Fund will shortly announce the first 50 communities to benefit from a £200m fund which will give residents power over funding projects.

The BIG Local funding stream will go to regions which have traditionally not received much money from BIG, addressing the criticism that funding goes to projects with the best application, rather than those addressing the greatest need.

Communities will have up to ten years to spend the money allocated to them via BIG Local.

A trust will be established to administer the grants in the next 12 to 18 months. Other communities will be invited to make expressions of interest in being funded.

Peter Wanless CE of the Big Lottery also announced that BIG is also looking to develop a building stream within the Reaching Communities programme to fund capital projects. But how it will work has not been threshed out.