Up to £10,000 available for Charities and Not-for-profit Organisations based in the United Kingdom

Deadline: 2 December 2019

The BBC Children in Need is inviting applications from charities and not-for-profit organisations for its small grant program.

The fund make differences in children’s lives that help prevent or overcome the effects of the disadvantages they face. Projects achieve these differences by either working directly with children or seeking to improve their social and physical environments.

In Small Grants programme they are looking for projects where a relatively small amount of money can make a big difference for children and young people.

Priority Areas

Projects working with children and young people of 18 years and under experiencing disadvantage through:

Illness, distress, abuse or neglect
Any kind of disability
Behavioural or psychological difficulties
Living in poverty or situations of deprivation

Grant Information

The Small Grants programme will provide grants up to £10,000 per year for up to 3 years- a total request of £30,000.

Eligibility Criteria

Not-for-profit organisations of any size that work with disadvantaged children and young people of 18 years and under who live in the UK, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.
If applicant currently have a grant for either programme, in the final year of that grant they can apply for further funding to keep running the same project or for a different project.
Applicants will need to be able to provide convincing evidence of the differences their grant has made to the lives of the disadvantaged children and young people applicants have worked with.

They don’t give grants:

For work which statutory bodies (such as schools or local authorities) have a duty to fund
To educational institutions including schools, universities, pupil referral units. The only exception is special schools.
To local government or NHS bodies.
For any building or capital projects.
For projects which promote religion.
To fund trips or projects abroad.
For medical treatment or research.
For pregnancy testing or advice, information or counselling on pregnancy choices.
For awareness-raising work, except where it is targeted at those children or young people most at risk.
For bursaries, sponsored places, fees or equivalent.
For family holidays where there is little or no project involvement.
For political activity and they can’t give grants to party political organisations or for direct lobbying.
For general appeals or endowment funds.