Big Lottery Fund: North of England
(asked on 18th April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much Big Lottery funding (a) per capita and (b) in total was allocated to the (i) North East and (ii) North West in each of the last five years for which data are available.
Applicants for funding from The National Lottery Community Fund (formally the Big Lottery Fund) often name their main office as their project delivery location. A high proportion of charities are based in cities and towns, or have their main office in London, but deliver activity and services to a much wider area. Figures often don’t reflect the spread of activity and the overall offer of services and projects funded by The National Lottery Community Fund within a particular area. Therefore, when applying population figures to project delivery locations, amounts tend to be skewed towards larger towns and cities.
Financial Year | Region 1 | Funding Value | Per Capita |
2014/15 | North East | £34,164,457 | £12.92 |
2015/16 | North East | £29,925,534 | £11.32 |
2016/17 | North East | £35,683,578 | £13.49 |
2017/18 | North East | £13,015,745 | £4.92 |
2018/19 | North East | £21,704,346 | £8.21 |
Totals | North East | £134,493,660 | £50.86 |
Financial Year | Region 1 | Funding Value | Per Capita |
2014/15 | North West | £108,859,409 | £15.00 |
2015/16 | North West | £56,324,292 | £7.76 |
2016/17 | North West | £77,765,696 | £10.71 |
2017/18 | North West | £46,957,812 | £6.47 |
2018/19 | North West | £52,413,410 | £7.22 |
Totals | North West | £342,320,619 | £47.16 |
1 The Community Fund’s North West and North East regional offices’ remit differs from government office regions in that our North East office also serves Cumbria. To avoid confusion, we have provided a Government Office Region breakdown here.