Deadline: 20-Nov-2024
Applications are now open for the Armed Forces Families Fund Early Years Programme to enhance early childhood education and childcare settings of young children from Armed Forces families.
Themes and Priorities
- They are looking for projects that can deliver sustainable change. This means that they want to know what evidence you have to support the approach that you seek to take, and crucially, how people from Armed Forces communities have helped to shape this.
- Your project must clearly benefit Armed Forces families with a child under 5 by enhancing their access to high quality childcare.
- This year, they are focusing on three outcomes. Your project will need to contribute towards at least one of these outcomes.
- Increased capacity at the setting to allow more Service children to attend.
- Better learning environments for Service children.
- Have provided appropriate training and development to staff to support Service children.
Funding Information
- This programme will award grants of between £5,000 and £50,000.
What types of projects are they looking?
- MOD’s AF3 Early Years programme will look at addressing specific needs that you highlight to them throughout your application.
- If they receive more strong applications for funding than they can support, they may give priority to projects that help ensure that Armed Forces families located across the UK and in each of the Services can benefit from this programme.
Eligibility Criteria
- They invite applications from:
- Early childhood education and childcare providers operating where Armed Forces families live or work and must offer group-based childcare and have at least 50% of Service children on roll.
- Local authorities who wish to supply specific training to early childhood education and childcare providers supporting Service children aged 0-5 years.
- An appropriately constituted organisation which provides training for setting staff to support Service children.
For more information, visit Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust.