Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Tesco Stronger Starts funds local good causes who support children and young people across the UK.
The focus of Tesco Stronger Starts is getting schools and children’s groups who lack funds and resources to apply for extra financial help they might need to provide healthy food and activities that boost young people’s mental and physical wellbeing.
Funding Information
- grant of up to £1,500.
Eligible Projects
- Supporting a local youth sports club to purchase equipment
- Contributing towards costs of a summer play scheme
- Helping young people develop skills and employment prospects
- A project that supports a uniform clothes bank
- Mother and toddler groups
- Funding towards a youth club
- Project that supports a youth choir
- Project that supports a children’s hospice
- Emotional and mental health support for children
- Buying equipment for outdoor or indoor activities
- Schools developing a food growing area
- Voluntary organisations working with families to run a food bank
- Addressing holiday hunger amongst children outside of school time
- Healthy eating projects that support families to cook healthy meals on a budget
- Brownie or Scout groups needing funding for new play equipment or activities
Ineligible Projects
- Work that has already taken place
- Political donations
- Fundraising activities or challenges (e.g. costs for a sky dive etc.)
- Running costs and organisation overheads
- Conferences or seminars
- Activities which collect funds for redistribution to other charities or individuals
- Overseas appeals
- Expeditions or overseas travel
- Promotion of a religious or political cause
- Marketing promotions
- Research projects
- Projects or activities that the state has a legal obligation to provide
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants will be awarded to schools, voluntary or community organisations (including registered charities/companies), health bodies (e.g. Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), NHS Hospital Trust, Foundation Trust), Parish/Town Councils, local authorities and social housing providers that support children and young people
Ineligibility Criteria
- Applications are not eligible from:
- Individuals
- Community Interest Companies with shares (CIC’s)
- Community Interest Companies with guarantee that are less than two years old
- Profit-making organisations
For more information, visit Tesco Stronger Starts.