Out of School Hours Learning

New Opportunities Fund
What is the New Opportunities Fund? (NOF)

The New Opportunities Fund (NOF) is a Lottery distribution organisation created by the National Lottery Act 1998. It is a U.K. wide fund sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and is responsible for distributing grants for health, education and environmental projects.
The funding cycle runs over five years with each individual school receiving funding for three years.

Key Objectives of the New Opportunities Fund

• To support sustainable projects that improve the quality of life of people throughout the U.K.
  
• Address the needs of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable
  
• Encourage community participation
  
• Complement local and national strategies and programmes

What will NOF fund?
NOF will only fund activities that are new, have previously run as a pilot, or extend the numbers of pupils participating. For example, NOF will fund the introduction of resources for a new breakfast or homework club, together with any existing club that increases pupil attendance.

NOF can be allocated for payment of direct teaching (teachers and specialist tutors) together with other organisations providing educational activities or projects. Funding can be used for 'buying in' services from a local museum, who could provide a six week local history project or a dance instructor to provide workshop sessions.

Funding can also be used for activity weekends, but these must be connected to an out of school hours club i.e. an environment club could be rewarded with a weekend spent at a forest adventure camp.

Money can be used for 'consumables' including pens, paper, clay, sewing materials, cartridges and footballs but cannot be used for capital expenditure such as goal posts which, because life expectancy is over a year, are classed as capital. Similarly, NOF will not pay for computers or for parents' participation in activities.

 

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Contact
Vicky Johnston-Messore
Out of School Hours Learning Co-ordinator
1st floor Morline House
160 London Road
Barking IG11 8BB
Tel: 0208 227 5065
Email: vicky.johnston-messore@lbbd.gov.uk |

 

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