The NOF, the biggest distributor of National Lottery cash for good causes, has handed out more than 236m through 4,355 awards to various projects since the out-of-school childcare programme was launched four years ago.
NOF chair Baroness Pitkeathley said the programme was intended to complement the national childcare strategy and create 432,500 new childcare places across the UK by 2003.
'To increase childcare capacity to this level in under four years was a huge challenge and it required large-scale infrastructure development, new planning processes, new workers, training, regulation and inspection arrangements and quality standards,' she said.
Last week's announcement took the number of out-of-school childcare places backed by the fund to 495,577.
The largest award went to projects co-ordinated by Norfolk County Council, which received more than 1.5m.
Director of education Bryan Slater said, 'This will not only offer great opportunities for childcare schemes starting up or wishing to expand, but also offer individuals a chance to start their own business as well. This can offer long-term security for themselves and the children and parents they will cater for.'
The London borough of Harrow celebrated its fifth successful bid for NOF cash when it was awarded 129,047 to create 327 childcare places - 56 of them specifically for children with special needs at Woodlands School and the Kids Can Achieve project, where the money will be used to open out- of-school clubs.
While London and the south- east were awarded nearly 9m between them, the north-west, the south-west, Yorkshire and Humberside, the West Midlands and the eastern region all received more than 3m.
Meanwhile projects in Northern Ireland received 1.4m, while 2.9m was distributed in Scotland and 280,000 in Wales.