Ok, so not an open door, but the lottery has created a new front door for people seeking funding from any of its various funds (from UK Sport to Heritage Lottery Fund to Awards for All and Big Lottery Fund). It has the astutely-titled moniker of LotteryFunding.org.uk and, at first try, seems to be fairly usable….

Also worthy of note, in the world of all things lottery, is that Groundwork has won the GMTV people’s vote, and received £1.5 million as a result to transform 25 neighbourhoods across the UK. Congrats to a great charity doing great work.

Finally, Awards for All (the small-scale local community (events) side of the Lottery funding streams) has raised its upper limit to £10k as of April 1st….