Positive Destinations is a UK wide £2 million grants programme which will be
awarded to innovative and effective projects that have the potential to deliver
positive outcomes to some of the most vulnerable children and young people in
the UK. The programme will take place over three years and is aiming to award
three large grants of around £500,000 each and three smaller grants which will
have the remaining £500,000 divided between them.
Positive Destinations aims
to deliver sustainable support to young people to ensure that they achieve a
positive future in terms of education, employment or training. The funders will
seek projects that target either key points in determining a young person's
future (i.e. pre-school, transition from primary to secondary education and the
14 - 16 year period prior to work or further education) or an holistic approach
to this problem.
An integral part of tackling the causes as well as the effects of
disadvantage, projects will be expected to generate learning and ensure the
sustainability of their work beyond the life of Positive Destinations funding.
Active research will enable the projects to adapt as they go to maximise
impacts.
In turn the funders are seeking to enable collaborative partnerships and
systemic change in delivering success in this critical area for the UK. All the
projects selected will be independently evaluated and the findings presented to
offer alternative solutions.
For more information email pudsey@bbc.co.uk <mailto:pudsey@bbc.co.uk> with
Positive Destinations in the subject line.
Full details will be available
from 1st Feb on bbc.co.uk/pudsey
Applications will be via an online application form only and will be selected
according to Positive Destinations criteria. The deadline for applications is
30th March 08. This programme is additional to BBC Children in Need's normal
grants programme.
Deadline: 30 March 2008
Dates: Details available from 1st February
