Who's involved?

DCMS

(Department of Culture, Media & Sport)
They identified the need to get Lottery funding to areas not receiving their fair share.

Big Lottery Fund

New Opportunities Fund -now merged with Community Fund to form Big Lottery Fund who put funding into a Trust for a voluntary & community sector organisation to steward.

Community Foundation Network

Voluntary & community sector organisation chosen to be sole Trustee of the Fair Share Trust with 55 members across the UK - locally based and community focused with reach to more than 90% of the UK.

The Trust Deed is overseen by an independent Protector.

Community Foundations and other local partners

Community Foundation Network (CFN) members and other local voluntary and community sector partners identified by CFN to deliver the programme locally in the spirit of the devolved nature of FST and in recognition that locally based organisations are best placed to work with local communities.

See details of all our other partners

Local people

Involved throughout the programme – from:

  1. Setting local priorities for use of FST funding
  2. Involvement in grant assessment
  3. Decisions on awards made
  4. Monitoring processes
  5. Increasing numbers of broader community consultation
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