# Lego Foundation offers £100 million for ideas to improve children’s early years

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2022/02/17/lego-foundation-offers-100-million-for-ideas-to-improve-childrens-early-years/
- Published: 2022-02-17T12:16:10+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**For the Lego brand’s 90th anniversary, the Lego Foundation is giving out grants
worth 900 million Danish Kroner (over £100 million) to help give children the best
start in life.**

Through its [Build a World of Play Challenge](https://learningthroughplay.com/build-a-world-of-play/the-challenge/),
it is looking for solutions designed to meaningfully impact the wellbeing and holistic
development of young children (from birth to age six) in a sustainable way. As well
as transforming early childhood experiences ideas should address global social issues
that impact young children’s lives.

Ideas, it says, must be ‘impactful, feasible, community-centred, and sustainable’,
and organisations worldwide can apply.

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 https://twitter.com/LEGOfoundation/status/1493857821775077376

Up to ten finalists will be selected this September. Each finalist will receive 
DKK 6.5 million (approximately £730,000) to strengthen their proposed plan, start
building their team, and scale up to successfully implement their innovation. Selecting
from amongst the finalist organisations, the LEGO Foundation will announce up to
five awards by the end of 2022. There will be three grants awarded for DKK 200 million(
around £22.5 million) each and two grants awarded for DKK 100 million (approximately
£11.23 million) each.

The deadline is 7 April.