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We've responded to Big Lottery Fund’s 'Big thinking' consultation which is helping shape their future funding policies for 2009-15.

We welcome Big Lottery Fund’s proposed continuing future focus on tackling disadvantage and vulnerability and helping people most in need.

There are different ways of delivering lottery funding, each with its own pros and cons. The important challenge is to consider the needs of individuals and communities in rural areas as well as urban.

Big Lottery Fund's policy responses need to be as much about people and group based targeting as about area based targeting.

We also suggest that in future the Big Lottery Fund uses the official urban rural definition to monitor the rural distribution of its grants in order to demonstrate and secure geographical equity.

Read our full response

Find out more and share your opinions with Big Lottery Fund on the consultation website