Lottery funding to change 21st century services

By Per Fischer

June 26, 2008

The Big Lottery Fund Scotland (BLFS) presented a new targeted funding strain within their Supporting 21st Century Life called Changing Needs Changing Services at an event in Glasgow in June.

BLFS have ring fenced £3m to projects within this particular area.

They are looking for projects that enable people to think and plan ahead to match future needs and services experiment and innovate or looking at new ways to link services to changing needs pilot new ways of thinking.

The keywords are collaboration and partnership in order to help designing future public services.

For this type of funding, projects must focus on one of these outcomes:

• People have more confidence, self-esteem and life skills to plan for their future 
• Communities are more able to learn from the past, and think about and positively plan for the future.

The projects must also focus on this priority:

• Gaining a better understanding of our changing needs of support services of different kinds, looking at ways of meeting that challenge of changing need and making the most of the opportunities it presents.

BLFS will fund projects that bring about change and improvement in support services delivery, collaborate with users and create demonstrable good practice.

Funding can run up to five years, meet up to 100% of project costs and be both revenue and capital costs, with a grant range up to £1m.

Outline proposal forms must be submitted by 24 October 2008, and the deadline for full submissions will be 1 May 2009 with decisions made by September 2009.

Supporting 21st Century Life funding guide (PDF)

Big Lottery Fund Scotland

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