Deadline: 21-Mar-24
The Katharine Howard Foundation (KHF) in collaboration with Community Foundation Ireland has announced applications for ‘Children’s Promise’ grants programme to support the best life outcomes for young children.
The KHF ‘Children’s Promise’ grants programme will provide financial support and a network of supports for grantees. KHF aims to partner with grantee organisations so that they can work towards the shared vision of making Ireland a place in which all children can thrive, regardless of socio-economic background. They also expect it will provide valuable opportunities to work collaboratively with other funders and statutory organisations. Most importantly, they hope it will have tangible impact on the lives of vulnerable young children and their families and make your organisations and communities even stronger.
There are two funding options available: One Year Grant and Multi-Annual Grant. There are two phases to the application process for Multi-Annual grant and you must first submit an Expression of Interest for multi-annual funding.
Aim of the Grant
- The ‘Children’s Promise’ grants programme aims to support community-based organisations working with young children and their families in disadvantaged areas, who may not reach their potential due to the corrosive impact of poverty. The programme is a promise from KHF to provide financial and other supports to selected organisations, to support and develop the potential of the children engaged with the organisations. It aims to build on the powerful work taking place at statutory and community-level to address child poverty.
Priority Areas
- This grants programme focuses on ‘promising projects and practices’ within communitybased organisations, which aim to prevent or intervene at an early stage in addressing the potential impact of poverty on young children and their families. It encourages applications from small, collaborative projects that focus on gaps in provision and innovative approaches to addressing these gaps. The ‘Children’s Promise’ grants programme supports organisations in the following categories:
- Early years/young children projects, within community-based settings.
- Parental support programmes.
- Research into promising programmes or gaps in provision that may help to build policy support in those areas.
- Capacity building within an organisation.
Funding Information
- The ‘Children’s Promise’ grants programme offers grants of up to €45,000 (€15,000 per annum over a three-year period) to small, not-for-profit organisations with an annual turnover of less than €2,000,000. Each of the years 2023-2025, approximately six projects will be selected for multi-year support and eight projects will be offered once-off support (up to €15,000).
- The following categories of grants will be offered:
- Up to €15,000 (once-off support in one year, with the option of additional non-financial supports).
- Between €10,000 and €15,000 per annum (maximum of 3-year support and additional nonfinancial supports).
Ineligible Funding
- The following categories are outside of the remit of the grants programme:
- Individuals, bursaries or scholarships.
- Minor works.
- Therapies – to address a waiting list.
- Medical expenses.
- Capital projects.
- Animal welfare activities.
- Commemorative structures.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Organisations Will
- Be a child or family-focused, community-based organisation working at local level.
- Be a registered charity or a company limited by guarantee (CLG) 3 – or apply in collaboration with a ‘Lead partner’ that is a registered charity or a CLG.
- Have an annual income of less than €2,000,000.
- Have up to date and sufficient governing documents, annual accounts and child safeguarding policies.
- Eligible Projects/Programmes Will
- Support young children ages 0-5 and may include children up to 12 years of age, their parents (or guardians) and be from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
- Address essential needs, creativity and play, education, or improved health and wellbeing for young children and their parents.
- Be a new project or a promising current project that requires additional funding.
- Use the funding for project costs such as staffing, planning, events, courses or for a piece of strategic work such as a review, evaluation or development of a strategic plan.
For more information, visit KHF.