Deadline: 16-Oct-2024
The BBC Children in Need is accepting applications for the Pudsey Next Steps Funding Programme to help achieve greater equity, diversity and inclusion in the grant-making.
This round aims to reach under-served and marginalised children and young people. They may be affected by challenges including poverty, discrimination, and exclusion. For example, this could include care experienced or disabled children and young people. It may include children and young people from minoritised ethnic communities.
It focuses on new applicants working in under-served geographic areas across the UK.
What do they mean by ‘under-served’?
- Areas where the funding is not reaching marginalised children and young people. They identify these areas using internal and external data and research.
What do they mean by ‘marginalised’?
- When children and young people are treated differently or experience social, economic and political barriers. These barriers mean they are less able to participate in aspects of daily life or access services or opportunities. Children and young people can be marginalised due to a range of factors. These could include sexual identity, gender identity, gender, geography, ethnicity, poverty or disability.
Funding Information
Organisations can apply for:
- Grants from £1,000 – £15,000 per year for up to three years
Who can apply?
- Organisations which have not been funded by BBC Children in Need before
- Organisations with an annual income of £100,000 or less
- Not-for-profit organisations working with children and young people aged 18 or under
- Organisations that work with children and young people who live in the UK, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands
- You can only apply for and hold one grant at any time.
Ineligibility Criteria
- BBC Children in Need doesn’t fund:
- Work that statutory bodies (such as schools or local authorities) have a duty to fund
- Educational institutions, including schools, universities, and pupil referral units. Special schools are the only exception;
- Local government, prisons, or NHS bodies
- Capital or building projects
- Projects that promote religion
- Trips abroad, or other activity taking place outside the UK
- Medical treatment or research
- Pregnancy testing or advice, information, or counselling on pregnancy choices
For more information, visit BBC Children in Need.