A Better Start - Big Lottery Fund

Fulfilling Lives: A Better Start
The Big Lottery Fund’s early years investment
• We’re changing our approach
• Supporting whole life cycle
• Improved outcomes for babies and children,
building strong foundations for life
• Where we are now
• What next?
Our approach
Collaboration
Partnership
Co-production
Local delivery
Long-term
investment
Focus on
prevention
Using
evidence
Understanding
impact
Asset-based
Our investments cover the whole life
cycle, across the whole community
Stronger
Communities
The choice is ours
Core of the intervention
Social and
Emotional
Development
Communication
Nutrition
Our Ambition
test
a step change in the use of
preventative approaches in
pregnancy and the first three years
of life
achieve
3-5 ‘at scale’ investments of £30m£50m each which secure a better
start in life for 10,000 babies.
Where we are now
• Stage One
• Development
• Stage Two
Our partners
Impact Assessment
Economic Effectiveness
Delivery Support
Where next?
Role of
Health
How Money
is Spent
Systems
Change
Existing
Assets