The Health Lottery Foundation has announced grants worth £200,000 to 12 charities in 2025 to help improve health and wellbeing across Britain.

Selected charities include CAST, Farms for City Children, Feeding Britain and FoodCycle among others.

The grants, which are being delivered in batches worth around £15-20,000, are designed to help chosen charities with a range of projects, such as helping health and social care charities to use AI confidently; improving outdoor learning opportunities; increasing the accessibility of affordable health food; and ensuring no child goes hungry during the school holidays.

“These first 12 grants have been selected based on the impact they make to health and wellbeing,” the foundation’s chief executive, Delva Patman said.

“We are delighted to be able to cover such a broad spectrum of projects, from helping children connect with the outdoors to using AI to improve operations for 50 health and social care charities. It’s a privilege to be able to support these projects. We are grateful to The Health Lottery players, who make these donations possible.”

The full list of charities to benefit are:
- CAST
- Farms for City Children
- Feeding Britain
- FoodCycle
- Phab
- Sport in Mind
- Student Minds
- Support Dogs
- Tapping House
- The Brain Charity
- Forest of Avon
- The Royal Countryside Fund

The Health Lottery Managing Director, Martin Ellice added: “I’m so impressed by the 12 projects being funded thanks to Health Lottery players. I’m looking forward to visiting them over the coming months.

“They are all doing vital work and having a massive impact, and I am immensely proud that The Health Lottery is supporting them through the auspices of The Health Lottery Foundation.”

The Health Lottery Foundation will be promoting the work of each of the projects awarded funding over coming months.

To learn more about the projects that have received funding, visit: www.thehealthlotteryfoundation.org.uk

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