Deadline: 21-Dec-20
The BBC Children in Need is currently accepting applications for its Main Grant Programme.
The project they fund make differences in children’s lives that help prevent or overcome the effects of the disadvantages they face. Funded organisations achieve these differences by either working directly with children or seeking to improve their social and physical environments.
Focus Areas
Children and young people aged 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.
Funding Information
- Organisations can apply for £10,001 or more, per year;
- Grants may be up to 3 years in length.
What They Don’t Fund
Whilst this fund is designed to be as flexible as possible, they are unable to consider applications for the following:
- Capital/Building costs.
- Fixed equipment (e.g. boilers, lighting etc.)
- Vehicles.
- Statutory costs or work which statutory bodies (such as schools or local authorities) have a duty to fund.
- Non-Fixed equipment totalling over £20,000 (e.g. play/sensory equipment).
- Work delivered outside the UK.
- Work with young people over the age of 18 years.
- Retrospective funding, where the grant expenditure is due to start before the grant award date.
- Costs for which you have already received funding for (duplication).
- Contributions to your reserves.
- Staff redundancy or re-deployment costs.
- Repayment of loans or debts.
- Investments.
- Pension liabilities and/or contributions to a large number of staff’s pension.
- Feasibility studies or scoping work.
- Projects which promote religion (However they can still fund religious organisations).
- Trips or projects abroad.
- Medical treatment or research.
- Pregnancy testing or advice, information or counselling on pregnancy choices.
- Awareness-raising work, except where it is targeted at those children or young people most at risk.
- Bursaries, sponsored places, fees or equivalent.
- Political activity or, to party political organisations or for direct lobbying.
- Individuals.
- For the grant to be passed on to other organisations.
- General appeals or endowment funds.
- Small Grants Only – Work which directly addresses the effects of child sexual exploitation or is focused on addressing this issue (they can support this work through their Main Grants Programme).
Eligibility Criteria
BBC Children in Need only fund organisations who can tell them why they are best placed to deliver their work. This means applicants must be able to tell them about:
- Their well-established links with young people;
- The skills and expertise they have for the work they are requesting funding for;
- Their track record delivering the work they are requesting funding for. This is especially important for applicants for the Main Grants Programme;
- How they work alongside other organisations in their local community.
How To Apply
- All applications must be submitted via their online portal. Once you have logged in, you will be able to complete and submit your application for the Main Grants programme.
- Before applying, they strongly recommend you read their Main Grants Application Form Guidance.
- The deadline for this programme is 11.30 am 21st December 2020. They expect that this fund will be over-subscribed and only a proportion of applications will be successful. They also know that you need funding quickly.
For more information, visit https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/grants/covid-19-funding-streams/