Deadline: 19-Sep-22
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) is inviting UK organisations to bid into the newly established, multi-year Media Literacy Programme Fund.
The grant scheme will provide funding to organisations undertaking media literacy activity that tackles the challenges set out in the Online Media Literacy Strategy.
The Media Literacy Programme Fund awards grant funding to organisations undertaking media literacy activity that tackles the media literacy challenges in the Online Media Literacy Strategy.
The strategy aims to support organisations undertaking media literacy activity to do so in a more wide-reaching, effective, and coordinated way. The DCMS has committed to taking action to address the media literacy challenges and improve the UK media literacy landscape over the next 3 years.
Priorities
In year 1 of the fund, DCMS is inviting bids for projects that meet one or more of the following strategic priorities:
- Vulnerable users: providing support to vulnerable users who are currently underserved by media literacy initiatives.
- Evaluation: implementing new or robust approaches to evaluation that improves understanding of the effectiveness of media literacy interventions
- Misinformation and disinformation: undertake activity to effectively build audience resilience to misinformation and disinformation
Funding Information
- DCMS expects to administer a maximum of £200k grant funding to individual projects in each financial year the project is live, however exact amounts will be considered on a case-by-case basis. There is no minimum funding requirement for this bid.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for this fund, your project must include work taking place in England.
- Your organisation must also:
- be registered to operate in the UK, and
- have experience of delivering media literacy interventions or equivalent subject matter expertise
- If you are bidding into the fund as a consortium:
- the lead organisation in the consortium must be registered to operate in the UK, and
- at least one organisation in the consortium must have experience of delivering media literacy interventions or equivalent subject matter expertise
For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/guidance/media-literacy-programme-fund