Purpose

The Thanet Community
Lotto was created in 2017 by Thanet District Council and was
set up to support community projects in the local area. The Lotto
operates on the principle of raising money within the community for
the community. It empowers local good causes to raise money in a
fun and effective way.
 
Thanet Community Lotto enables
people to support the causes they care most about, helping good
causes to connect with their supporters.
 
A ticket for the Thanet
Community Lotto costs £1 per week and 60p will go directly to
good causes in Thanet. Even better, Lotto players can choose which
Thanet good cause gets 50p of the 60p. The Thanet Community Lotto
helps over 80 local
good causes to generate a regular income. The remaining 10p
goes in a central pot for good causes. This has been accumulating
with approximately £70,000 accumulated since the Lotto
started.
 
During April 2024 the council's
Cabinet and Corporate Management Team agreed to set-up a grants
programme using funds from the Thanet Community Lotto good causes
pot. It was proposed that the Thanet Community Lotto Grants
programme should be available to cover all wards of Thanet with a
simple and accessible eligibility criteria for most not-for-profit
organisations, subject to the normal council grant
protocols.
 
The headline criteria was for
the grants to deliver activities that support Pride in Place and
delivered by ‘good causes’ in Thanet. The Fund covered
all wards in Thanet and therefore available to apply to for
Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise organisations and
communities of Thanet. To be successful applicants had to be based
in, and serve Thanet residents. The grants were up to a maximum of
£2,000.
 
The grant programme was
launched in September 2024 and closed in October. Through an open
process, grant applications were invited and sent to the council
for the Thanet Community Lotto Grants Fund. 63 applications were
received and shortlisted using the published criteria, which
were:-

All sections of the
application form have been fully completed with the relevant
information. 
Successful applicants
must be based in and serve Thanet. The project must take place in
Thanet. 
Project aligned with
‘Pride in Place’ ethos.

 
Any project or organisation
that did not achieve the criteria were automatically failed, not
shortlisted and therefore not considered by the Lotto Grants Review
Panel.
 
A panel of three staff members
was set-up to review the bids against the key criteria, with the
Corporate Directors forming the approval panel, reviewing the
recommendations and providing sign-off of the grant
awards. 
 
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund
report, ‘Delivering Shared Prosperity in Thanet’
identified that opportunities for young people is a priority. There
was an underspend in the People and Skills intervention and its
themes, outputs and outcomes align with the supporting the youth
focussed lotto projects. 
 
All shortlisted projects were
scored and reviewed by the Lotto Grants Review Panel and approved
by the Director’s Panel on 13 November 2024. 
 
The applications totalled
£113,140.00, of those £90,181.05 were approved for an
award of funding on the basis of the criteria for the fund. The
funding in the Thanet Lotto pot available for grants was
£71,864.00, this left a gap of £18,317.05. Of the total
funding requests £31,976.79 was for projects focussed on
young people. 
 
It was identified that in the
People and Skills Intervention of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund
there is currently available funding that aims to support young
people. Officers recommended that this funding was used to bolster
the Thanet Lotto Community Grant Fund in order to fund as many of
the projects as possible who passed the criteria.

Decision

The Thanet Lotto
Community Fund was over subscribed and
it was decided to use £18,317.05 from the People and
Skills intervention of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to fund some
of the youth projects. 
 
Breakdown of budget allocation for the Thanet
Community Lotto:

Total projects 

£90,181.05

Agreed to be funded

Lotto budget

£71,864.00

as at 4 November 2024

Shortfall

£18,317.05

UKSPF - People and Skills Intervention to
cover some of the youth projects

£18,317.05

Youth opportunities is a priority area for Thanet
District Council 
Separate officer decision notice

 
The Youth Projects
will be part funded through Lotto and UKSPF, with a list of the
Youth Projects are shown below:
 

Organisation

Project Title

Amount Awarded

The Hive Thanet CIC

Boccia
Equipment

£500.00

Arts Education Exchange

Access and Therapy fund for our creative
programme

£2,000.00

The Zone Youth Club,
Broadstairs

Trips Out for Kids

£2,000.00

1st Westgate Scout Group

Construction of new stores
building

£2,000.00

1st St Lawrence Scouts

Summer Camp Costs

£1,000.00

6th Ramsgate Royal Harbour Sea Scout
Group

Ice House renovation

£2,000.00

Thanet Judokwai

Representing Thanet Judokwai Young People: At Home &
Away

£2,000.00

Ramsgate Skatepark Project

Ramsgate Skatepark Basketball Court
Refurbishment

£2,000.00

Thanet Disabled Riding Centre

Subsidise 3 Disabled Riders for 12
months

£1,500.00

Thanet Parkour Academy CIC

Jump into Parkour training

£1,443.46

Thanet Youth Network

Thanet Youth Network

£2,000.00

Westgate on Sea Town Council

Redesign and Rebuild of Lymington Road Skate Park,
Westgate-on-Sea

£2,000.00

Birchington Parish Council

Memorial Recreation Ground
Project

£2,000.00

Pie Factory Music

Earn-a-Bike scheme

£2,000.00

Cliffsend Youth Club

Cliffsend Youth Club

£1,000.00

Margate Sea Cadets

Marching Band Equipment

£1,987.33

Ark Cliftonville Cultural
Space

VeseleDete ( Fun Kids in
Czech)

£2,000.00

Aim4 Partnerships CiC

Chill Club Crafters

£1,210.00

Imago Community

Thanet Young Carers

£1,336.00