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Every Lidl helps: helping charities can be super marketing for businesses

Paul Gibson (left) with the Lidl Community Works judges

2 Sep 2015

Following the announcement of a new Lidl scheme to fund community groups across Northern Ireland, Scope asks whether partnerships between the voluntary and private sectors are a world of untapped potential.

Crisis Fund: can a little go a very long way?

Patrick Sanders' view on: the Crisis Fund

31 Jul 2015

Earlier this year OFMdFM released a small amount of funds to help vulnerable ethnic-minority migrants in crisis. Scope speaks with fund administrators the Red Cross about its success.

Preserving heritage and understanding the past

28 Apr 2015

Scope meets Paul Mullan, head of the Heritage Lottery Fund in Northern Ireland.

BIG new youth fund has fresh focus

Conor Largey benefitted from Big Lottery support

19 Mar 2015

Collaboration with youth at every stage is a new requirement for any groups looking to access some of the Big Lottery's new £50m pot aimed at Empowering Young People.

Is Lottery funding being undermined?

19 Feb 2015

Across the Irish Sea moves are afoot that could threaten the National Lottery and the charities in Northern Ireland that depend on its funding, Scope investigates

Where the Big Lottery millions will go

Joanne McDowell, NI director of the Big Lottery Fund

25 Nov 2014

Early next year the Big Lottery Fund will unveil its spending priorities for the next six years with more than £100 million at stake, Scope caught up with Northern Ireland director Joanne McDowell to read the runes.

Big Lottery makes major new appointments

6 Nov 2014

The Big Lottery Fund has appointed three new Northern Ireland committee members to make decisions on how National Lottery funding is invested.

Funding the Arts in the "real world"

21 Oct 2014

Ali FitzGibbon, director at Young at Art re-frames the debate about arts funding.