Amount Available: £1,000 - £40,000 per year, for up to three years
Funding Type: Project based / Core funding
Registration Status: Registered charities, Registered community interest companies limited by guarantee, Registered charitable incorporated organisations, Companies limited by guarantee with a clause in their governing document preventing distribution of profit, Religious institutions and faith-based organisations registered with a regulator and more
Unregistered not-for-profits can apply for up to £15,000, but must meet their minimum standards - see here
Diversity Area: Young People, Disability, Limited Financial Means, Mental Health
Activity: All Activities
Application Deadline: N/A - Open fund
The BBC Children In Need fund supports work that addresses issues and challenges affecting children and young people in the UK. Such challenges can include growing up in poverty, mental health issues, being ill or disabled, family challenges, and social injustice. They support work that aligns with one of their strategic outcomes:
Preventing mental health issues: focusing on work that improves children and young people’s social and emotional wellbeing, at the earliest stage, outside of an active mental health crisis.
Alleviating the impact of poverty and deprivation: focusing on work that alleviates the impact of poverty and deprivation in children and young people’s lives. This includes addressing basic/immediate needs, access to developmental and enriching opportunities and experiences, improving life chances and opportunities and support for physical wellbeing and mental health and activities addressing local needs.
Reducing social inequity for marginalised children and young people: focusing on work that ensures that children and young people affected by structural and systemic barriers and discrimination including ethnicity, disability, gender, gender identity and sexual identity have access to the opportunities and support they need.
Addressing the impact of family related challenges: focusing on work that ensures that children and young people experiencing challenges relating to their family get the support they need; including young carers, children and young people with experience of care and bereavement.
This grant programme aims to fund a balance of grants across the UK that address the greatest needs of vulnerable children and young people. They have different funding priorities for each geographical area. These can be found here
Find out more here