Big Lottery Fund ESIF Offer Tessa Wiley Policy & Learning Manager 01/05/2014
The Big Lottery Fund Since June 2004, we have awarded over £6 billion to projects supporting health, education, environment and charitable purposes In 2012/13 we made 12,000 new awards with a total value of £778m BIG are presently managing 17,000 awards and 88% of our awards are for £10,000 or less Over 92% of our funding goes to the voluntary and community sector organisations
Why ESIF? ESF TO9 Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty OUR MISSION Making a real difference to communities and the lives of people most in need OUTCOME 2 To improve access to European Funds by VCSE organisations OUTCOME 1 To maximise the impact of this funding
A simple equation? Not quite... BIG SFA DWP The journey into work RULES DELIVERY MONITORING RISK
The proposal Three tests: Alignment, Additionality, Costs Development funding made available LEPs provide input but BIG retains decision making Development Phase Application Phase Delivery Phase