Funding is available to enable vulnerable children and young people in the UK to overcome financial barriers preventing them from achieving their education, training or employment goals.
Fund Information
- Funding body:
- Buttle UK
- Maximum value:
- £ 2,000
- Application deadline:
- None specified
Background
The Chances for Children Grant scheme is provided by Buttle UK, a registered charity based in the UK that is dedicated to helping children and young people who are in crisis reach their potential.
The funding can support the needs of children and young people who have experienced a crisis that has recently had a significant and enduring impact to their social and emotional wellbeing and their educational engagement.
Grants can help with single household items or to help remove the material barriers to learning and development or wellbeing that a child or young person may be facing.
Objectives of Fund
The Chances for Children grants scheme aims to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of children and young people and their capacity to engage in education and learning.
Value Notes
Grants of up to £2,000 are available.
Who Can Apply
Applications are only accepted from frontline professionals working closely with the children/young person, who have carried out at least one home visit, and made a full assessment of the children’s/young person’s needs. The professional will also need to supervise grant spend, upload receipts and complete an evaluation survey.
Children/young people must meet ALL of the following:
- Be a child or young person aged 18 and under if living with parent/carer, OR 20 and under if living independently with little or no support from their family.
- Be living on a low income and experiencing financial hardship.
- Have experienced a crisis that has recently had a significant and enduring impact on their social wellbeing, their emotional wellbeing and their educational engagement.
- The family/young person must have recently taken action to improve their situation, are actively engaging with support and are moving on from the crisis.
Restrictions
The following are not eligible for funding:
- Children and young people where poverty is the only factor.
- Where family separation is the only factor.
- Looked After Children living in foster or residential care.
- Children and young people who continue to be in crisis and at serious risk.
- Children and young people living or normally residing outside of the UK.
- Where the main reason is disability or ongoing serious illness of a child.
- Items/activities where there is a statutory responsibility to provide the support.
- Single items, eg an application asking for only a cooker or one laptop.
- Applications requesting mainly household items.
- Debt repayments.
- Rent and rent arrears.
- Legal costs.
- Medical treatment.
- Car insurance or maintenance.
- Funding that would create an unsustainable situation for the family/young person (ie long-term counselling support, unaffordable activities or long-term childcare etc.)
- Organisations seeking funding for chargeable services they provide themselves.
Eligible Expenditure
The grant can support items and activities to help improve social and emotional wellbeing and increase capacity to engage in education and learning
Buttle UK will fund holistic packages of support that can include, but not limited to:
- Items and activities to support learning and development such as laptops, books, wi-fi, educational toys, tuition etc.
- Clothing and school uniforms.
- Social, sporting and leisure activities.
- Family activities.
- Items for children/young people’s bedrooms.
- Other household items that are not available from other sources such as Emergency Essentials or Local Authority scheme, etc.
- Boarding school fees for children who are unable to stay in their family home.
Location
UK
How To Apply
Applications may be submitted at any time.
All applications to Buttle UK must come from a referrer on behalf a client.
FAQs and the online application form can be found on the Buttle UK website.
Contact Buttle UK for further information.
Useful documents & links
Useful Links
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
- England Office
Buttle UK
15 Greycoat Place
London
SW1P 1SB
Tel: 020 7828 7311
Email: [email protected]
- Northern Ireland Office
Buttle UK
PO Box 1534
Dungannon
BT70 9BR
Tel: 028 87746778
Email: [email protected]
- Scotland Office
Buttle UK
PO Box 2081
Glasgow
G32 2BR
Tel: 0141 778 2839
Email: [email protected]
- Wales Office
Buttle UK
PO Box 116
Pontypridd
CF37 9ER
Tel: 014 434 08 209
Email: [email protected]