Big Lottery Fund
The Big Lottery Fund was launched on 1 June 2004, following an administrative merger between The New Opportunities Fund and The Community Fund. The National Lottery Bill will establish amongst other measures one new body, The Big Lottery Fund, which will have responsibility for handing out half the money to good causes from the National Lottery.
In March 2005 the Big Lottery Fund announced the first wave of funding programmes it intends to launch later this year, within its new funding framework, agreed with Government. The framework contains a number of high level themes, outcomes and priorities, but it is the Fund itself which will design and run the programmes.
The Big Lottery Fund has indicated that its new programmes will include £155m for children's play; a £155m programme of support for voluntary sector infrastructure; £354m for environmental programmes including £90m for parks; £165m for wellbeing programmes, and £60m for international grants.
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