1. Who can apply for an Awards for All grant?
2. How much money can we get?
3. What geographical area does Awards for All cover?
4. Who will benefit? What are the aims of the Programme?
5. Who do I contact for more information?
6. What are your priorities?

You can apply to Awards for All if you are a not-for-profit/voluntary and community sector group, community council, school or health body. A range of organisations can apply but we prioritise smaller voluntary and community groups with an annual income of less than £20,000.

You can apply for a grant of between £500 and £10,000 to be used within a year. Organisations can apply for up to £10,000 within any 12-month period - this means if you get a grant for less than the maximum amount you can reapply within the same year as long as all end of grant monitoring is completed satisfactorily and the award is closed on our system.

Awards for All Scotland can fund projects that benefit people living in Scotland.

Awards for All aims to get lottery money into local communities in Scotland.

We can fund projects that meet one or more of the outcomes for Scotland:

• People have better chances in life
• Communities are safer, stronger and more able to work together to tackle inequalities
• People have better and more sustainable services and environments
• People and communities are healthier

You can contact the Scotland Information Team on 0300 123 7110 or by emailing Scotland@awardsforall.org.uk. For an application pack you can call 0845 600 2040 or textphone 0845 755 6656.

These are listed in full in the guidance notes. It should be noted that meeting our priorities is not essential to receive funding.

One of our priorities are those areas we would like to see receive more funding from Awards for All. This is based on our analysis of where our funding has gone to date. These are different for each of the three lottery distributors.

Applications coming from arts or sports groups are mostly likely to be considered through Creative Scotland or sportscotland. Other groups will usually be considered through Big Lottery Fund. Schools will always be Big Lottery Fund even if they are running an arts or sports project.

For example, a theatre group wanting to hold a performance would be Creative Scotland. A school applying for football equipment would be Big Lottery Fund and not sportscotland.

Areas that feature in the 15% most deprived data zones in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation are one of our other priorities .

Small towns (those with a population of 3,000 to 10,000) are also a priority. You can check this by entering a postcode through the Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics.