The Big Lottery Fund is a grant-making organisation in the UK. It is one of a range of distributors of money raised by the National Lottery. It replaced the former Community Fund and New Opportunities Fund on June 1, 2004 but the process of reorganisation is ongoing with regular announcements of new funding programmes. A play here! sign outside a newsagent, incorporating the National Lotterys logo of a stylised hand with crossed fingers. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Big Lottery Fund supports projects which help to revitalise communities, particularly those in socially and economically disadvantaged areas. To do this, it operates three funding programmes: A community is an amalgamation of living things that share an environment. ...

• Open programmes, which provide funding for voluntary and community organisations (similar to the previous Community Fund programmes).
• National programmes, involving larger sums of money and more closely linked to the UK Government's own priorities (similar to the previous New Opportunities Fund programmes).
• Transformational programmes, which provide funding for major projects of national significance.

As with previous National Lottery schemes, the Fund's decisions have attracted both positive and negative publicity. It has been praised for supporting schemes across England to get school pupils involved in sporting activities, and has also made high-profile donations to projects supporting disabled people, film-makers and children with learning difficulties. However, controversies have included: The United Kingdom is a unitary state and a democratic constitutional monarchy. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... A sport consists of a physical activity or skill carried out with a recreational purpose: for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of a skill, or some combination of these. ... The term disability, as it is applied to humans, refers to any condition that impedes the completion of daily tasks using traditional methods. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... A learning disability exists when there is a significant discrepancy between ones ability and achievement. ...

• The revelation in February 2005 that Comfort Afolabi of the Detainee Support and Help Unit (a charity which received £350,000 of lottery cash to help asylum seekers) offered to help a BBC Radio Five Live undercover reporter to get a fake passport and national insurance number.
• A decision in the same month not to award £300,000 to the ailing Sheffield branch of The Samaritans, on the grounds that it failed to target disadvantaged groups.

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