BBC Children in Need Main Grants

BBC Children in Need Main Grants
BBC Children in Need Main Grants programme is open to charities and not-for-profit organisations applying for grants over £10,000 per year for up to three years.

Scheme details
The scheme gives grants for 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
Projects they fund make 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.

They fund organisations working to combat this disadvantage and to make a real difference to children and young people’s lives. There is no upper limit for Main Grants but they make very few grants over £120,000 and most grants are for much less. Each year they are asked for much more money than they are able to give. Requests for larger amounts are always more competitive.

If you are looking for any amount up to £10,000 for one year, see Small Grants.

Who can apply?
Not-for-profit organisations 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 Main Grant, as long as your funding is coming to an end within the next 12 months you can apply for further Main Grant funding to keep running the same project, or on a different project. You will need to be able to provide convincing evidence of the differences our grant has made to the lives of the disadvantaged children and young people you have worked with.
If you currently have a Small Grant you can also apply for a Main Grant as long as it is for work with a different group of children and young people.
Core Principles
BBC Children in Need expects all grant applications to reflect these principles

Being focussed on outcomes for children and young people
Addressing disadvantage
Safeguarding children
Enabling participation by children and young people
Avoiding statutory overlap or substitution
Focus on Outcomes for children and young people
They fund projects focused on differences made to the lives of disadvantaged child and young people. Applicants must therefore provide clear evidence that disadvantaged children and young people:

will be the primary beneficiaries of the project and;
will experience positive changes in their lives from the activities or services provided.
Exclusions
They don’t give grants:

For work which statutory bodies (such as schools or local authorities) have a duty to fund
To local government or NHS bodies
For building projects applying to the scheme for more than £20,000
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
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 organisations which have applied in the last 12 months
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.)
It is very important that you refer to their online A To Z Guidance to make sure you don’t waste time applying for things the scheme doesn’t fund. You will find valuable details on their policies there – some are relevant to every project (for example Child Protection) and some are important for certain types of project (for example counselling projects or projects seeking funding for equipment).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/…/60DXlxYvb…/main-grants-should-i-apply