UK National Lottery Grants Database with Search by Good Cause and Geography

Lottery grant records from the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport detail funding recipients, projects, and amounts since the Lottery's inception. The database includes completed and in-progress grants from distributing bodies, excluding Olympic Lottery grants, and allows searches by good cause area, geography, recipient name, and grant date. Data is provided by the Lottery distributing bodies and was discussed in the DCMS Open Data Strategy 2012.

Use Cases

• Analyze funding distribution trends over time based on the grant date search criteria.
• Map grant allocation by geographic region based on local authority and parliamentary constituency search fields.
• Identify funding patterns by sector based on the good cause area classification.
• Track funding received by specific organizations based on the grant recipient name search.
• Assess project types and scales based on project name and grant amount searchable fields.

Strengths

• Includes data spanning from the beginning of Lottery funding up to the last update in 2026.
• Allows granular search and filtering by at least nine specific criteria, including good cause area and grant amount.
• Data is provided directly by the authoritative Lottery distributing bodies.
• Bulk download is available in TSV format for scripting, though split into parts.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Excludes grants made by the Olympic Lottery Distributor and does not hold details of grant applications.

Provenance

Source

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), with information provided by Lottery distributing bodies.

Collection Method

Administrative records of completed and in-progress grants.

Time Range

From the beginning of Lottery funding up to the last update date.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:37.712343; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom, searchable by local authority area, geographical area, and parliamentary constituency.