New £2 million 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”.
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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”.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.