BBC Children in Need’s Core Costs funding can be spent on your organisation’s central day-to-day operations. These might include:
- Management and administration
- HR and payroll
- General office expenses
- Accountancy and audit
- Communications and outreach
- Monitoring, evaluation, and learning
- Governance, regulatory, and compliance costs.
This funding stream is for charities and not-for-profit organisations. Applicants to this programme can apply for grants for up to three years. Quicker decisions are made for grants.
They will fund not-for-profit organisations working with children and young people aged 18 or under. They seek to prioritise smaller, local organisations.
Other priorities for this fund are:
- Organisations working in the heart of their communities, particularly in times of crisis.
- Putting children and young people at the centre of everything they do, from design to delivery.
- Addressing challenges faced by children and young people, building their skills and resilience.
- Empowering children and young people and extending their choices in life.
- Keen to keep learning about and developing their work with children and young people.
- Committed to making a difference in children and young people’s lives.
Some of the organisations and projects BBC Children in Need doesn’t fund are:
- 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.
How much should you apply for?
- Applications for grants of £15,000 or less per year will receive a quicker decision, and so will be able to start sooner if successful.
- The Core Grants stream supports organisations for up to three years.
- They will only consider applications for over £15,000 per year from organisations who have registered with the appropriate regulatory body.
- They do not make grants of over £120,000 (or £40,000 per year), and most grants they make are for much less than this.
- If your work directly supports certain groups of especially vulnerable children and young people, you’ll be unable to apply for less than £15,001 per year.
