Programme Summary
Awards for All Wales is a simple small grants scheme making awards of between £500 and £5,000.
The Awards for All Programme aims to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need.
Awards for All Wales aims to fund projects that:
- Support community activity - by helping communities to meet their needs through voluntary action, self-help projects, local facilities or events. (By communities we mean people in a local area or people who share a common interest or need.)
- Extend access and participation – by encouraging more people to become actively involved in local groups and projects, and by supporting activities that aim to be open and accessible to everyone who wishes to take part.
- Increase skill and creativity – by supporting activities which help to develop people and organisations, improve skills and raise standards.
- Improve the quality of life - by supporting local projects that improve people’s opportunities, health, welfare, environment or local facilities, especially those most disadvantaged in society.
Can I apply?
You may be eligible to apply for an Awards for All grant if you can meet one of the criteria mentioned above, and:
- you are a not-for-profit group (including social enterprises), or you are a community or town council, school or health body
- you have a bank account that requires at least two unrelated people to sign each cheque or withdrawal
- you have a governing body with at least three unrelated members
- you can spend the grant within one year.
What to do next
- If you think you are eligible to apply, look at our apply page and download the guidance notes and application form
- Questions about Awards for All? Find out more.
- Not eligible for an Awards for All grant? Look at the other small grants available from the other distributors.
Contact
- Call our team for advice on 0845 4 10 20 30.
- Email us at enquiries.wales@biglotteryfund.org.uk
- Call our Lottery Funding Helpline on 0845 275 00 00 or go to www.lotteryfunding.org.uk for details of all the lottery funding available.

