19 May 2009

Inspired and supported by the Channel 4 TV show, the Big Lottery Fund is promoting its own version of the highly successful secret millionaire concept. Lottery funding worth £1 million has been made available for people to apply for, or nominate projects to apply for grants of between £300 and £10,000 (£5,000 in Wales) from the Secret Millionaire Fund. Viewers can propose a community project or organisation that they think would benefit from BIG funding.

BIG will then contact the organisation to see if it is eligible to apply for this small grants scheme and send out the relevant information.

Alternatively if viewers have an idea for a project that can bring real improvements to the lives of communities, and can pass a simple eligibility test they can apply to Secret Millionaire Fund. In both cases the same eligibility criteria as Big Lottery Fund Awards for All programme apply and Lottery grants are awarded following an application and assessment process which takes up to 8 weeks.

The Fund will be open until the 21st December 2009 but applications can be submitted at any time up to this date.

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