Quick answer — The National Lottery Community FundLast refreshed 02 Apr 2026

At a glance

The National Lottery Community Fund has awarded £21.7m across 53 suppliers, with 50 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 23% · 14 open notices now · 2 awards in last 90 d (£536k) · SME share 27% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 3 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration23%
Modifications · 90 d3
SME spend share27%
Pipeline · open now14
Awards · 90 d2

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

The National Lottery Community Fund is a contracting authority, based in UKG31. Tracks 100 published notices and 84 awards on PublicSupply.

100
Notices published
84
Awards
53
Suppliers engaged
2018
First award on file

Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£5.3m
12 m spend
£4.0m
Prior 12 m
+33%
YoY change
£155k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
The National Lottery Community Fund — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£0m£1m£1m£2mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

1

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

14

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

2

£536k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

Unspecified78 · £19.5m
services22 · £18.4m

Instrument type

contract99 · £36.9m
call off1 · £1.0m
Source:Contracts Finder: 62Find a Tender: 38

Awarded contracts · 50 live

All contracts with a published award notice where The National Lottery Community Fund is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
C0158 - Athlete & Team Engagement - Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2026 & European Athletics Championships Birmingham 2026BEAT MEDIA GROUP LIMITEDactive
C0152 EDI L&D Pathway80511000£100kest.active
C0154 Staff Discounts and BenefitsSME HCI Limited (trading as Perkbox)75310000£80k31 Mar 2026active
C0153 - Glasgow Commonwealth Games PR SupportRun Communications Limited£463kest.active
C0156 - Black Health Inequalities Summit 2026Caribbean & African Health Network£100kpending
Website specialist support and quality assuranceNEXER DIGITAL LTDactive
Finance System ReplacementXledger Limitedactive
C0138 - UK Fund Monitoring Evaluation & Learning79419000£3.3mest.active
C0153 - Glasgow Commonwealth Games PR SupportRun Communications Limited£456k02 Apr 2026active
UKP ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT79419000£800kest.active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
BS
2 contracts · 18 Jul08 Aug
£5.0m
23% of total
New
2
ID
1 contract · 29 May
£2.6m
12% of total
3
CF
2 contracts · 15 Oct
£2.4mest.
11% of total
New
4
HS
2 contracts · 14 Jun31 May
£1.3m
6% of total
▼ 100%
5
AP
£1.2m
6% of total
New
6
NC
1 contract · SME · 26 Nov
£1.0m
5% of total
7
RC
2 contracts · SME · 02 Apr
£919kest.
4% of total
New
8
1L
3 contracts · SME · 01 Sept
£600k
3% of total
New
953
···
45 other suppliers
long tail · 12 SMEs
£6.4m
30% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
30 contracts
£21.2m
57%
IT services, software
6 contracts
£5.7m
15%
Other
22 contracts
£4.9m
13%
Software packages, IT
4 contracts
£2.8m
8%
R&D services
16 contracts
£1.6m
4%
Construction materials
2 contracts
£483k
1%
Radio, TV, communications
2 contracts
£275k
1%
Education, training
3 contracts
£204k
1%

Activity heatmap

Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Business, legal, advisory
0
1
IT services, software
Other
0
0
1
0
Software packages, IT
0
R&D services
1
Construction materials
0
0
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

Curated leadership roster

Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.

Modifications · 3 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 3 notices tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.

SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

27%
SME supplier share
target 33%
19
SME award rows
1
VCSE award rows
53
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 27% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKG31
Contact
Procurement Team
Email
procurement@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

Accountable officer + board roster

Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.

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