BBC Children in Need Small Grant Programme – United Kingdom

Deadline: 16 March 2020

BBC Children in Need is seeking applications form charities and not-for-profit organisations for its Small Grants programme.

The Fund makes 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. They are unlikely to fund applications for top up funding for salaries or larger projects where a small grant would only make a marginal impact on their success.

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

You can now apply for 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 you currently have a grant for either programme, in the final year of that grant you can apply for further funding to keep running the same project or for a different project.
You will need to be able to provide convincing evidence of the differences grant has made to the lives of the disadvantaged children and young people you have worked with.

The Trust doesn’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.
To local government, prisons or NHS bodies.
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.
To individuals (unless an eligible organisation is applying on their behalf or through their Emergency Essentials Programme).
To be passed on to other organisations, for example, PTAs applying on behalf of schools.
For general appeals or endowment funds.
To help with budget shortfalls or debt repayments.
To projects where the grant expenditure is due to start before the grant award date (retrospective funding).
To projects unable to start within 12 months of the grant award date.
For unspecified expenditure.
For organisational overheads or running costs which the organisation would incur whether the project was running or not. (Although they will consider funding support costs incurred as a direct result of running the project).