N Ireland received £3.8 million last year from BBC Children in Need

Howard Lake | 5 March 2019 | News

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BBC Children In Need (CIN) distributed grants worth £3.8 million in Northern Ireland in 2018, representing 7% of total UK grant giving, according to its latest annual accounts.

The figure is an increase on the 2017 total of £3.5 million. Northern Ireland also received £240,000 in emergency grants last year.

CIN’s main grant programme gave out £3.3 million in Northern Ireland while the small grants programme distributed £500,000. This represented 39 and 60 projects respectively.

Throughout the UK CIN is in the main a responsive funder – some 89% of the 2018 grants totalling £63.3m (total of small and main grants) go to support organisations who apply to CIN for funding. The balance of grant giving (£3.4 million) is distributed collaboratively with organisations working with young people.

CIN continues to prioritise supporting children affected by poverty and deprivation, with 35% of grants going to projects in that area. Disability (22%), marginalised groups (15%) and young people in distress (10%) are also a focus of grant giving.

The types of project supported cover a wide range, with youth services (25%), arts/creativity (12%) and counselling (11%) the main priorities.

Children in Need’s small grant programme includes grants up to and including £10,000 per year, which supports projects for up to three years, while the main grants programme is for grants over £10,000 per year to support projects for up to three years.

In Northern Ireland 62,000 children were supported by CIN’s grant giving last year.

• BBC Children in Need’s total for 2018 was £58 million (11 July 2019)
  
• BBC Children in Need 2019 Appeal raises £47.8 million (20 November 2019)
  
• 11 years of the BBC Children in Need Rickshaw Challenge has raised over £43m (19 November 2021)
  

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.