Funding Partners
We distribute funds from our sponsor department and from the National Lottery.
Meet our funding partners
Department for Communities
The Department for Communities (DFC) is a devolved Northern Ireland government department in the Northern Ireland Executive. DFC is responsible for urban regeneration, community and voluntary sector development, historic environment, social legislation, housing, social security benefits, pensions and child support, debt advice, public records, Employment Service, promoting equality, and development of arts and culture.
The National Lottery
The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery established in 1994 in the United Kingdom. Every week National Lottery players raise more than £30m for good causes. More than £47 billion has now been raised by National Lottery players to support good causes since 1994. More than 670,000 projects have been supported with National Lottery funding, the equivalent of around 240 lottery grants in every UK postcode district.