Children, Young People and Families Grant Programme

Important notice
To all applicants - if by Tuesday 23 December you have not received a letter telling you whether you have been successful or not in the Children, Young People and Families grant programme starting April 2009, please contact us on 020 7925 7356.   The announcement of all the successful organisations will appear in the national, regional and trade press on Wednesday 24 December  and soon after on this webpage.

The Children, Young People and Families (CYPF) Grant is a national programme to fund work by the third sector to improve outcomes for children, young people and families. The outcomes expected from this funded work are embedded in the Children Act 2004, the Every Child Matters outcomes and the Children's Plan.

Funding from April 2009

The new grant round for funding from April 2009 was launched in August 2008, and applications are now invited from long-standing partner organisations as well as from new organisations.

We value the work of all the third sector organisations in the country who deliver excellent services for children, young people and their families, and the many thousands of volunteers who also give their time and energy to help others.  

Changes

There are a few changes to this year's programme. All innovation (formerly project) grants will be payable over 2 financial years, that is from April 2009 - March 2011. This will allow for more flexible start dates, payment over a more realistic timescale, and time to evaluate the success of your work.

For this grant round only, strategic grants of 2 years duration, again from 2009 - 2011, are also being made. Subject to the next spending review, this means that for the 2011 grant programme, all our strategic partner organisations will be able to bid for 3-year funding in a single round. We will then work with them to deliver the overall aims and objectives of the Department over the full funding round from 2011 - 2014.

We will contact direct the 20 organisations who are in the second year of their current 3 year strategic grant (due to end 2010).

Submitting your application

The deadline for receipt of completed applications is midday 31 October 2008. The results of the grant programme will be announced on, or shortly after, 15 December 2008. 

To help your chance of success in the grant process, please complete the Eligibility Questionnaire, available below. You are only eligible for a CYPF grant if you can answer yes to all applicable questions. The Grant Application Guide document will help you complete this grid. The top tips on tendering from the Futurebuilders website apply equally to grants and are worth reading.  

If you belong to a member organisation such as NAVCA, NCB, NCVCCO or NCVYS they may be able to give you some guidance to help you decide whether you should apply, although they are unable to comment on individual applications.

If, after this, you don't feel the CYPF Grant is appropriate, you may find a more relevant grant scheme on the Government Funding website.

CYPF Grant 2009 Forms
This contains all the documents you need to make an application to the CYPF Programme: the Eligibility Questionnaire, the Grant Application guide, the Application form, and the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Please note that even though you may be eligible, there is no guarantee you will be awarded a grant. DCSF receives many more bids than it has the resources to fund in each grant round; each award is based on the merit of the bid and its closeness to DCSF's policy priorities set within a competitive bidding environment.

Requesting further information

If you have queries that are not currently covered in the frequently asked questions or grant guide documents, please email them to CYPF Grant Programme 2009-10. We may publish your question and our answer on our online Question and Answer page so that others may benefit from our exchange, but we will not publish your organisation's name.

We aim to respond to all e-mailed questions within 5 working days and to update the online Question and Answer page every week, as appropriate.

2008-09 Grant (closed round)
Read the press notice on the DCSF website to find out which organisations were successful in the CYPF 2008-9 programme, and the amounts awarded.

Documents relating to funded organisations
Children, Young People and Families Grant programme - administration
A series of forms and factsheets for organsiations who are receiving funding through the grant.