Lottery cash to improve community facilities

The Big Lottery Fund, the largest of the National Lottery good cause distributors, has launched Energy Efficient Venues, a 5m programme supporting organisations to carry out energy efficient improvements to their community venues that will help them make savings on their heating and lighting costs and benefit the environment.

Organisations can apply for two grant sizes through the programme. Grants of 2,000 to 10,000 are available for groups to carry out improvements.

Information and application packs for the Energy Efficient Venues programme are available now. You can access these by visiting the programme pages of the website - www.biglotteryfund.org.uk - or by calling the Big Lottery Fund’s Information and Events team on 028 9055 1455.