[cma-l] Big Lottery Fund to launch £200m fund for community groups

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Money will go to groups that have been overlooked before, says chief
executive Peter Wanless.

The Big Lottery Fund will launch a new £200m grant fund for
neighbourhood-based community groups.

The fund, called Big Local, will award grants to voluntary groups in
50 geographical areas, which will be announced later this month.

Peter Wanless, chief executive of the BLF, announced the new fund at
the Charity Funding and the New Government conference in Westminster
yesterday. He said the organisation would set up a new charitable
trust to distribute the funds, and would look for partners to help run
it.

The money would go to groups that had been overlooked for funding in
the past and that involved local residents in decision-making, he
said.

Asked for more details about the fund, a BLF spokeswoman said the
organisation was not ready to make detailed announcements about it.

Speaking at the conference, Wanless also said he would meet Jeremy
Hunt, the culture secretary, to discuss the government’s plan to
reduce the BLF’s share of lottery good cause funding from 50 per cent
to 40 per cent (http://is.gd/dcHOT).

He urged charities to respond to the government’s consultation on the
issue, which closes on 21 August (http://is.gd/dcHQR).

Source, Kaye Wiggins, Third Sector Online, 2 July 2010: http://is.gd/dcHKr

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