At BBC Children in Need, children and young people are at the heart of what we do. After the events of the last few years, we have developed a new charitable ambition and grantmaking strategy. This strategy focusses on our principles of:

Sharing power with children and young people
Acting flexibly
Using our voice to build awareness and empathy around issues
Building partnerships to bring communities and investors together

As part of this, we have made some significant changes to our grantmaking model:

We will continue to offer project based funding, similarly to how we have in the past.
We will be offering funding for core (organisational) costs as a separate grants stream.
In spring 2023, we will launch a funding stream for smaller, emerging organisations. This stream is aimed at organisations who may need greater support to access our funding.

Organisations will only be able to apply for one of these streams per year. Your organisation should choose which stream is most suitable to your work and we will provide more detailed information about them, over the coming months. We will also give more details about our funding priorities at a local and regional level.

Funding currently open for applications are -