Open all yearPossibly, with conditions
BlueSpark Foundation grants
- Amount
- Most grants are under £2,000; none are more than £5,000
- Deadline
- Open all year, no fixed deadline
National Lottery Awards for All England: can it pay for a STEM workshop?
Short answer
Cannot pay for a workshop
Open all yearOpen all year, no fixed deadline
The funder's own who-can-apply page excludes curriculum-based activities, anything happening during the school day, school trips and after-school clubs, and requires a school's project to mainly benefit the wider community rather than pupils, teachers or parents. A bought-in STEM workshop for a class or year group does not meet that bar.
Checked on the funder's website on 10 November 2026. View the funder's page (tnlcommunityfund.org.uk)
Key facts
- What it is
- A rolling grant of £300 to £20,000 for community projects in England. Schools can apply, but only where a project mainly benefits the wider community rather than pupils, and the funder's own rules exclude curriculum-based activities, anything during the school day, and after-school clubs, so it cannot pay for an in-school STEM workshop.
- Amount
- £300 to £20,000
- Who can apply
- School, Charity, PTA, Local authority, OtherA school can be the named applicant, but the project must mainly benefit the wider community, not just pupils, teachers or parents, so a standard in-curriculum booking does not qualify.
- Phases
- Early years, Primary, Secondary, Special, Post-16
- Where
- England
- Funder
- The National Lottery Community Fund