Live Grant Making at The Gathering

Thursday 24th - Saturday 26th May, SECC Glasgow.

Calling On Scottish Groups To Join Unique Live Grant Making Event

Are you a group that brings people together and encourages community involvement? Do you want to take part in a pioneering live grant making event at this year?s Gathering? If it?s a yes then Awards for All, the Lottery small grants scheme, wants to hear from you.
 
They have up to £200,000 available for groups as diverse as sports clubs, arts clubs and community groups to help them mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade. Grants of up to £10,000 are available.

This money will be allocated ?live? at The Gathering, Scotland?s largest charity and voluntary sector summit, to be held in Glasgow from May 24-26. Delegates at the Gathering will make decisions on where the money goes in a public vote at the live grant making event on Friday 25th.
 
You could be a community group that wants to tackle racial harassment, a heritage group that wants to explore its past through an oral history project or an arts group that wants to make a film about the issue of human rights. Equally it could be an older people?s club in Inverness that might want to visit another part of Scotland, like Glasgow to understand its links to the slave trade. Whatever your idea we want to hear from you.

The money is being made available through the small grants scheme Awards for All, one of the Lottery?s most popular and well known schemes within communities across Scotland. So there is the potential for a diversity of projects to receive funding including community groups, sports clubs, arts clubs, heritage societies and a whole lot more. Groups can contact the Big Lottery Fund in advance of the event to discuss their ideas and they can also submit an application to be checked over to ensure quicker access to the vote.

However groups can also choose to bring their application on the day (25 May) where they will be assessed on site and put forward to the public vote. Successful projects will know the result straightaway and get their money within days.

Alison Magee, Chair, Big Lottery Fund Scotland , said: ?Although the event is taking place in Glasgow, the voting has been organised so that projects from further afield won?t be disadvantaged, and it is not even necessary for applicants to be at the Gathering. Voting is taking place by region, with money to be awarded to each of six parts of the country. So we want groups from all over Scotland to get in touch with their ideas. We particularly want to hear from groups in the north of Scotland so if you have an idea for a project to mark the bicentenary then we want to hear from.?
 

To obtain an application pack, groups can visit www.awardsforall.org.uk  or call 0845 600 2040