Charities Board - Latest News

20 March 2001

Charities Board targets communities hit by foot and mouth disease

In response to the increased stress faced by rural communities due to the current outbreak of foot and mouth disease, the National Lottery Charities Board today said it wants to target charities that help these communities.

14 March 2001

Evaluation of our grants - Expressions of interest wanted

The National Lottery Charities Board makes grants to charities, voluntary and community groups. We aim to help meet the needs of those at greatest disadvantage and improve the quality of life in the community.

We are compiling a list of external organisations to help us evaluate the impact of our grants. We want these organisations to help us develop appropriate evaluation methods and to carry out evaluative research for us.

The first evaluation research we want to commission will consider the difference we have made to:

voluntary sector infrastructure
community halls and other community buildings; and
meeting the specific needs of minority ethnic communities.

In the future we want to develop a process of self-evaluation to be used by the groups we fund.

We are now inviting expressions of interest from organisations that want to assist us with this work. Organisations must meet the following requirements.

be able to demonstrate specific experience in evaluative research;
be able to demonstrate experience in one or more of the three areas specified above or in self-evaluation;
have an understanding of the voluntary sector; and
experience in evaluating the impact of grant making on organisations in receipt of funds and the people they benefit is desirable but not essential.

Organisations which meet our requirements most thoroughly will be put on to our list and will be invited to tender for specific projects as appropriate. We will review this list periodically. We plan to invite tenders for our first project in April.

Interested organisations should send written expressions of interest to arrive by 5pm, Friday 30 March to: Sue Bryan, Head of Strategic Policy and Research, National Lottery Charities Board, St Vincent House, 16 Suffolk Street, London SW1 4NL.

7 March 2001

Old-style Charities Board makes its last grants

The National Lottery Charities Board today announced the last grants under its old name. These are also the final grants awarded under the Community involvement programme. From 9 April 2001 the Charities Board is changing its name to Community Fund and introducing two new improved grants programmes that will make it easier for charities, voluntary and community groups to get access to Lottery money.

21 February 2001

Major grants for North Wales

Two Women's Aid projects in North Wales are celebrating following the latest round of Community involvement and Poverty and disadvantage grants announced by the Charities Board in Wales.

21 February 2001

Major grants for South Wales

A charity supporting disabled people in the Swansea and Neath Port Talbot area is celebrating following the latest round of Community involvement and Poverty and disadvantage grants announced by the Charities Board in Wales.

9 February 2001

New grant-making committee approves �4.2 million for Scotland's voluntary sector

Children who have lost a parent, brother or sister through murder are to receive new support from a lottery funded project. The National Lottery Charities Board has awarded �155,000 to Victim Support Scotland to research the needs of children after a traumatic bereavement. Victim Support Scotland will develop new services to meet those needs.

2 February 2001

Rebranding Update

Contrary to today's very positive article in the London Evening Standard, we are not changing our name to Community Fund until 9th April 2001. We will be publishing further updates about the progress of rebranding on this site.

25 January 2001

Timothy Hornsby to retire as Chief Executive of the National Lottery Charities Board