Big Lottery FundESIF Offer

Tessa WileyPolicy & Learning Manager01/05/2014

The Big Lottery Fund

Since June 2004, we have awarded over £6 billion to projects supporting health, education, environment and charitable purposes

In 2012/13 we made 12,000 new awards with a total value of £778m

BIG are presently managing 17,000 awards and 88% of our awards are for £10,000 or less

Over 92% of our funding goes to the voluntary and community sector organisations

Why ESIF?OUR MISSIONMaking a real difference to

communities and the lives of people

most in need

ESF TO9 Promoting

social inclusion and combating

poverty

OUTCOME 1

To maximise the impact

of this funding

OUTCOME 2To improve access to European Funds by

VCSE organisations

A simple equation?

BIG SFA DWP

The journey into work

Not quite...

RULES DELIVERY MONITORING RISK

The proposal

Development Phase

Application Phase

Delivery Phase

Three tests: Alignment, Additionality, Costs

Development funding made available

LEPs provide input but BIG retains decision making