# Applications invited for £80 million Life Chances Fund

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/01/06/applications-invited-80m-life-chances-fund/
- Published: 2017-01-06T09:00:41+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The [Department for Culture, Media & Sport](https://www.gov.uk/government/.../department-for-culture-media-sport)
has issued a call for applications for the second wave of its £80m Life Chances 
Fund.**

The Fund has a two-stage application process, and is currently seeking expressions
of interest from organisations working on projects supporting early years and young
people with a deadline of 31^(st) March. Successful applicants will be informed 
by 30^(th) April, and will then have until 31^(st) October to submit a full application.

The Life Chances Fund is a top-up fund with the objective of helping ‘those people
in society who face the most significant barriers to leading happy and productive
lives’, according to the DCMS’s call out form. It launched last July, with six funding
themes: drug and alcohol dependency, children’s services, early years, young people,
healthy lives, and older people’s services. The call out for the first two themes
went out last July and saw drug and alcohol dependency projects allocated up to 
£30m of funding. The call out for the final two themes is scheduled for this June.

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The funds have been committed by central government to contribute to outcome payments
for payment-by-results contracts involving socially minded investors, such as towards
Social Impact Bonds (SIBs), the number and scale of which it aims to increase. The
contracts must be locally commissioned and must aim to tackle complex social problems,
and the Fund aims to contribute around 20% of the total outcomes payments with local
commissioners footing the majority.

Based on similar funds, the Fund expects to leverage a further £320m in outcomes
payments from local commissioners, to create a total pot of £400m for outcomes contracts.

More information on the process and criteria for applications is available on the
[gov.uk site](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/life-chances-fund).

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