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Opportunities: Children & young people

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BBC Children in Need: Pudsey Next Steps

BBC Children in need are offering rants from £1,000 – £15,000 per year for up to three years. Pudsey Next Steps is looking for applicants new to Children in Need working with under-served and marginalised, children and young people in under-served geographic areas across the UK.

Deadline: 15 October 2024

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The C C Gibson Charitable Trust

The G C Gibson Charitable Trust offers grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 to a wide range of charities. he current focus is on capital or product purchases for smaller UK registered charities in the areas of Education, Social inclusion, Physical and mental health.

Deadline: 30 September 2024

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The Adamson Trust

Financial help with the cost of holidays or respite breaks for children aged between 3 and 17 with physical, mental or emotional impairments.

Deadline: 30 September 2024

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The Henry Smith Charity Holiday Grants for Children Grant Programme

Grants to provide recreational trips or holidays for children aged 13 years and younger who live in an area of high deprivation and are experiencing disability or disadvantage.

Deadline: 19 November 2024

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The Prudence Trust – Grants For Supporting Children And Young People With Disordered Eating

Grants for UK organisations who are supporting young people aged 11-25 in the UK with disordered eating, families of a child with an eating disorder, or step-down services.

The deadline for this opportunity was 2 September 2024

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The Astor Foundation

Grants for medical research, initiatives for children and youth groups, charities supporting those with disabilities, the countryside, the arts, sport, carers groups and animal welfare.

The deadline for this opportunity was 31 August 2024

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The Toy Trust

Grants for projects that support disadvantaged and disabled children aged 13 and under and their families.

The deadline for this opportunity was 16 August 2024

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Lawrence Atwell’s Charity (the Skinner’s Company)

Revenue grants for organisations that are helping disadvantaged young people move into employment or become employment ready.

The deadline for this opportunity was 16 August 2024

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Historic England: History in the Making

Grants for projects that enable underrepresented young people aged 13-25 in England to research, discover and mark local history.

The deadline for this opportunity was 2 September 2024

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Spirit of Trevithick Award

Funding opportunity for young people aged between 14-23.

Deadline: 30 September 2024

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The Society Foundation

Grants for charities that are helping ex-offenders, those who are recently homeless or vulnerably housed and young adults aged 16-24 years old not in employment, education or training, move towards paid employment.

The deadline for this opportunity was 8 July 2024

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The Co-op Local Community Fund

Small grants for projects that enable people play a part in their community’s future and/or help to protect the planet.

The deadline for this opportunity was 7 July 2024