BBC Children in Need Main Grant Programme (UK)

Posted on November 27, 2015

BBC Children in Need has announced that the next applications deadline for its Main Grants Programme has been changed to the 13th January 2016.

The programme provides funding grants of over £10,000 to third sector organisations that work with young people who are suffering from illness, are in distress, suffer abuse or neglect, are disabled, have behavioural or psychological difficulties, or are living in poverty or situations of deprivation.

Many different projects have received funding from the Main Grant Programme, including Hope for Autism in North Lanarkshire (who received a grant of £93,564 to run a range of weekly groups and activities, in order to support children with autism and their families), and Mount St Catherine’s Out of School Club, Armagh (which received a grant of £18,728 to provide a daily after-school club and a summer scheme for children affected by multiple disadvantages, encouraging new friendships and offering support with school work).

For further information, please visit the Programme’s website.

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