The Postcode Community Trust, the funding arm of the People’s Postcode Lottery, are open for funding applications. They are looking to fund projects with the following criteria:
Promote community development projects including:
- Support for older people relieving isolation.
- Support for young carers and their families and/or support for families caring for disabled children or relatives, enabling them to engage more fully in their local area.
- Projects which enhance or enable volunteering opportunities which help to regenerate communities.
Support community cohesion by:
- Enhancing facilities which benefit a wide segment of a community.
- Increasing public participation in sports especially for those at a disadvantage due to disability, age, financial hardship or gender.
- Utilising sports to enhance the skills and life chances of disadvantaged groups.
- Providing recreational facilities, or the organising of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for those utilising the facilities/activities.
- Promoting inter-generational cohesion.
- Promoting a community’s social history.