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About the Main Fund


The Main Fund is responsive to requests for support across the broad range of our interests, which are: the cultural life of the UK, education and learning, the natural environment and enabling disadvantaged people to participate more fully in society.

Funding so widely creates a lot of competition. In 2008 we received almost 5,000 eligible applications to the Main Fund and made 267 grants totalling £17.2m.

To ensure that we can respond to so many requests, the application process is in two stages. We will acknowledge receipt of your first stage application within a week of receiving it and email you within a month to say whether we would like to take it to a second stage or decline to support it.

If we invite you to proceed to the second stage, we may ask you for additional information in order to clarify and expand on what you have already told us.

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