The BIG Fund (part of the BIG Lottery) has announced dates for briefing events in London for the Transition Fund.

The Transition Fund is a £100 million fund to help charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises affected by public spending cuts adapt. It helps to make organisations "which deliver high quality public services be more resilient, agile and able to take opportunities presented by a changing funding environment".

The briefing events are open to organisations which meet the following criteria:

1. Civil society organisations with an income of between £50,000 and £10 million
2. At least 60% of your income is from taxpayer funded sources
3. You must spend at least 50% of your taxpayer funded income on service provision in at least one of the following areas – health and social care; homelessness; education and training; offender rehabilitation; welfare to work/ employment services; children and families; debt counselling and legal advice
4. Your free reserves must not be more than six months
5. You face significant cuts; you will experience cuts of least 30% of your taxpayer funded income in 2011/12, as compared to your most recent set of signed annual accounts
6. The minimum grant size is £12.5k and grants will meet no more than half your taxpayer funded income. This means that you will have lost at least £25k
7. The majority of the grant expenditure will be on change activities
8. You are delivering the majority of your services in England. For further eligibility informationwww.biglotteryfund.org.uk/transitionfund To register for the event, please emailtransitionlondon@bigfund.org.uk by 8 December 2010 clearly stating in the subject line which two hour session you are able to attend (copy directly from the bullet points below), along with your name, phone number, organisation, address and any access requirements. Demand is expected to be high for these events and there are a limited number of places in each session, so please indicate all of the dates and times you are available.

• 13 December at 10am – London
• 13 December at 2pm – London
• 14 December at 10am – London
• 14 December at 2pm – London

Due to space constraints, registration is limited to one person per organisation. Spaces will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

If you are unable to attend a briefing session, all of the information you need on eligibility and applying is available on the Big Lottery website. After the regional briefing sessions all of the information from the events including the presentation will be uploaded to the BIG website.