# New £2 million grant programme from BBC Children in Need and The Hunter Foundation

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/01/15/new-2m-grant-programme-bbc-children-need-and-hunter-foundation/
- Published: 2008-01-15T11:18:46+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

[BBC Children in Need](http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey) and [The Hunter Foundation](http://www.thehunterfoundation.co.uk)
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”.

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