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Big Lottery Fund – Digital Fund

19 Oct 2018 - 10:53 by michelle.foster

The Digital Fund is a new UK wide £15 million funding programme to support charities and community organisations. It is about helping the charity and voluntary sector to use digital tools and approaches to support people and communities to thrive. Big Lottery Fund

The Digital Fund is currently offering two strands of funding. To find the right kind of support for your organisation, choose one of the following options:

Digital Fund Strand 1 offers grants of up to £500,000 and a tailored support package. The aim is to help established charities use digital to take a major leap forward. Grants are expected to last from 1 to 4 years.

Successful Strand 1 proposals will:
• Demonstrate a firm commitment by organisational leadership to changing the way that the organisation serves people and communities
• Contain a plan that has been developed in accordance with good digital practices, such as committing to an iterative approach, and making sure that people are in the lead
• Supply evidence that the organisation has already invested in digital, prior to this proposal
• Show a commitment to working generously, sharing what you learn and the products or services you produce with others

Eligibility criteria
• Your organisation must have an income over £500,000 per year. If your organisation had income of over £10m last year, The Big Lottery will ask for a matching contribution that will be tailored to your size.
• Your organisation must be incorporated within the UK, and must work primarily in the voluntary and community sector

Digital Fund Strand 2 offers grants of up to £500,000 for newer organisations that have already launched promising services that use digital to achieve scale or impact. Grants are expected to last from 1 to 4 years.

Successful strand 2 proposals will:
• Have made use of user-centred design
• Clearly demonstrate either the potential to scale your impact at low cost, or clearly demonstrate potential to use digital to bring substantial benefits to a specific group of people
• Be driven by teams that combine knowledge of an issue that matters to people and communities, with experience of digital deliver
• Relate to a product or service that is far enough through its development process that people are currently benefiting from it
• Provide evidence of impact upon those people
• Have a theory of change or similar document showing how the product or service will achieve aims that benefit a specific group of people
• Show an understanding of the challenge of sustaining impact after the ending of Big Lottery Fund support

Eligibility criteria
• Your organisation must have been incorporated after the year 2000
• You must currently operate a product or service that is functional and being used by the type of people and communities you plan to serve in future

You can apply if you’re a:
• voluntary and community organisation
• registered charity
• social enterprise
• group of organisations, if they are led by a voluntary and community organisations or social enterprise
• community interest companies (with two or more directors)

For further information and to apply, visit: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/digital-fund, or contact 0345 410 2030, or email: [email protected]

You can submit outline proposals from 22 October 2018 until 3 December 2018, 5pm. There will be further opportunities to apply in 2019.

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