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Funding to Provide Early Years Education for Armed Forces Families (UK)

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust, which is a grant-giving charity that supports projects that help improve the lives of Armed Forces families, has announced that it is offering grants of between £5,000 and £80,000 to support early years education for children from Armed Forces families.  The funding is being made available through the Armed Forces Families Fund: Early Years Programme.  

The grants are available to early childhood education and childcare providers, as well as Local Authorities and organisations that provide training for childminders.

To be eligible for a grant, projects must:

  • Clearly show why children from Forces families will benefit from the proposal.
  • Offer good value for money.
  • Be sustainable and have the potential to deliver long-term change.
  • Be co-produced with people from Armed Forces communities.

The grants can be used to:

  • Create and /or improve the outdoor learning environment.
  • Access specialist equipment and or training.
  • Help you to meet additional costs to enable more Armed Forces families to access childcare
  • General training to enable more people to access qualifications to work with young children from Armed Forces families; including SEND and SENCO training and resources

There will be two application deadlines this year:

Applications received by 5pm on 11 October 2023, will receive a decision before the end of November 2023.

Applications received by 5pm on 12 January 2024 will receive a decision before the end of February 2024.

 

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1st September 2023