New £2m grant programme from BBC Children in Need and The Hunter Foundation
Howard Lake | 15 January 2008 | News
BBC Children in Need and The Hunter Foundation have announced ‘Positive Destinations’, a £2 million UK-wide grants programme aimed at supporting innovative and effective projects that could deliver positive outcomes to some of the most vulnerable children and young people in the UK.
The three-year programme will see three large grants of around £500,000 each awarded and three smaller grants totalling £500,000.
The funders will seek projects that target either key points in determining a young person’s future, such as pre-school, transition from primary to secondary education and the 14 – 16 year period), or “an holistic approach to this problem”.
The partnership followed Sir Tom Hunter’s pledge of £1 million to the BBC Children in Need Appeal in 2007. Ewan Hunter, Chief Executive of The Hunter Foundation, said: “Every young person deserves the chance to shine. Hopefully through Positive Destinations we can show there are ways of making that a reality on a small scale for larger scale adoption in future”.
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