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Looking to bring a community project to life?The National Lottery Community Fund could help turn your idea into reality....
13/10/2026

Looking to bring a community project to life?

The National Lottery Community Fund could help turn your idea into reality.

Join one of our virtual lunchtime information sessions to learn how funding can support projects that make a real difference in local communities.

The sessions will:
- Explore what types of projects we can support
- Assist you to understand the application process
- Get answers to your questions from our team

Sessions will take place on 10 November and 8 December.

Reserve your spot for an online session today: https://ow.ly/outc50ZAu2c

We’ve now awarded over £2 million to community organisations in Northern Ireland through the Dormant Assets for All prog...
30/09/2026

We’ve now awarded over £2 million to community organisations in Northern Ireland through the Dormant Assets for All programme 🎉

Across Northern Ireland, 147 organisations are using grants to build skills and capacity, be more resilient and prepare for future challenges.

Got an idea to make your organisation stronger? We’d love to hear from you!

To find out more about Dormant Assets for All and the projects we’ve funded so far, visit our website: https://ow.ly/OmLa50ZSYjh

Department of Finance

Improving mental wellbeing. ✅ Strengthening relationships. ✅ Building confidence. ✅ That's the difference the S.P.A.R.C ...
17/09/2026

Improving mental wellbeing. ✅ Strengthening relationships. ✅ Building confidence. ✅

That's the difference the S.P.A.R.C (Supporting People and Resilient Communities) project is making for young people in East Belfast, which our Chair Dame Julia Cleverdon saw first-hand last week.

Thanks to a £498,716 Strengthening Communities grant, Phoenix Education Centre NI, Walkway Community Centre, Ledley Hall Youth and Boxing Club and Oasis Caring in Action are working together to provide early intervention and wraparound support for marginalised young people and families.

The three-year project provides community outreach youth work, resilience-building activities and life-skills programmes as well as access to counselling and practical support such as a school uniform hub.

Projects like this are helping to strengthen communities across Northern Ireland. In 2025-26, we awarded over £35.7 million through 832 grants to support local organisations making a difference in people's lives.

Across Northern Ireland, many families are facing increasing pressures – including poverty, mental health challenges and...
16/09/2026

Across Northern Ireland, many families are facing increasing pressures – including poverty, mental health challenges and rising demand on services.

Too often, support only arrives once problems have escalated to crisis. So last week, we launched Together for Families - a £60 million investment into family support in Northern Ireland.

It aims to shift the current system from reactive, high-cost statutory intervention to earlier, community-based support so that families can access the right help at the right time, closer to home.

We're investing £30 million, our largest single investment in Northern Ireland to date.

Partners from the Department of Health NI, The National Lottery Community Fund, Health and Social Care Trusts and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector came together at the event, to talk about what is changing to support long-term system transformation through this three-year project.

Find out more: https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/articles/together-families

10/09/2026

Today marks the official launch of Together for Families, a £59.2 million programme to transform how children, young people and families are supported across Northern Ireland.

This ambitious three-year programme brings together the Department of Health, The National Lottery Community Fund, Health and Social Care Trusts and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.

This major new partnership combines £29.2 million from the Public Sector Transformation Fund with £30 million from The National Lottery Community Fund, its largest single investment in Northern Ireland to date, made possible thanks to National Lottery players.

Together, partners will strengthen earlier, more connected and compassionate support, delivered closer to home and shaped around the needs of the whole family.

Transformation is about more than funding or structures. It happens when organisations share expertise, build trust and work across traditional boundaries towards a common purpose.

Together for Families builds on years of listening, learning and experience. The knowledge, relationships and commitment of the VCSE sector have been fundamental to its design and will remain central to its delivery and learning.

By working together, we have an opportunity to strengthen the family-support system and help families receive the right support, at the right time and closer to home.

Thanks to the generosity of National Lottery players, this initiative and others like it have been made possible – with over £4.6 billion distributed to projects over the last ten years alone.

Find out more: https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/articles/together-families

Northern Ireland Executive

10/09/2026

Ahead of the launch of Together for Families today, Health Minister Robbie Butler shares the impact this programme will have for families across Northern Ireland - not just now but for the future.

Thanks to players, The National Lottery Community Fund is investing £30 million, our largest single investment in Northern Ireland to date, alongside £29.2 million in public-sector transformation funding.

Department of Health NI

09/09/2026

What difference could earlier, more joined-up support make to a family’s future?

At a recent Together for Families engagement session, sectoral experts and practitioners explored how that collaboration can turn shared ambition into lasting change.

That is the ambition behind Together for Families - a partnership combining public-service expertise with the local knowledge, specialist experience and trusted relationships of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector in Northern Ireland.

Because at The National Lottery Community Fund, we want to support communities to shape their own future. Making longer-term, bolder, bigger investments, building partnerships and learning directly from communities about what works and is needed.

08/09/2026

Transforming family support requires expertise and collaboration from across the whole system.

Together for Families workshops have been underway in Northern Ireland, as we listen to and work alongside communities and stakeholders.

All of this has fed into Together for Families which is launching this week- a new £59.2m programme bringing together the Department of Health, Health and Social Care Trusts, The National Lottery Community Fund and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.

Hundreds of sectoral experts, practitioners and organisational representatives have contributed through programme webinars, planning workshops and Family Support Hub consultations. Their insight is helping to shape a more connected approach that strengthens what already works and helps families access support earlier and closer to home.

And with our funding teams rooted in communities across the UK, we cover every postcode; we are here for everyone and especially for those who need us the most. We are your local funder.

07/09/2026

Families should not have to wait until challenges reach a crisis to receive the support they need.

Ahead of this week’s launch of Together for Families, Paul Sweeney, Chair of The National Lottery Community Fund’s Northern Ireland Committee, explains why we are making this major investment.

Across Northern Ireland, families are facing increasing pressures. From financial hardship and child poverty to growing mental health needs. Together for Families aims to help children, young people and families access coordinated support earlier, closer to home and through organisations they know and trust.

Thanks to National Lottery players, the Fund is investing £30 million, our largest single investment in Northern Ireland to date and additional to our existing funding programmes. Together with £29.2 million in public-sector transformation funding, it will support an ambitious partnership between The National Lottery Community Fund, the Department of Health, and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.

Watch Paul explain why we are investing at this scale and what partnership working could make possible for families across Northern Ireland.

Reminder: Applications Close Wednesday 9 September. ⌛ We're looking for a Policy Engagement Manager (12-Month Fixed Term...
07/09/2026

Reminder: Applications Close Wednesday 9 September. ⌛

We're looking for a Policy Engagement Manager (12-Month Fixed Term Contract) to join The National Lottery Community Fund in Northern Ireland.

This is a fantastic opportunity to help shape policy engagement, build influential partnerships, and ensure the experiences of communities inform our work and funding priorities.

- Belfast (Hybrid Working)
- Applications close: Wednesday 9 September
- Interviews: Thursday 1 October

Don't miss your chance to make a real difference for communities across Northern Ireland. Read the full job description and apply here: https://ow.ly/uUPk50ZAtxo

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