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Contact us to chat about your idea

You can: 

We’ll put you in contact with a funding officer in your area within 10 days of contacting us. If you’re eligible to apply for the funding, we'll send you a link to our online application form. 

If you need communication support

If it's difficult or impossible for you to apply online, please let us know. We can offer other ways to apply, such as forms that work offline. 

Contact us if you have any communication support needs. 

How you can involve children and young people in your application

We’d like to hear from the children and young people you work with. If you want to, and they do too, you can involve them in your application. But you do not have to. 

For example, they can: 

  • answer some or all of this question 
  • provide paragraphs or quotes for you to include  
  • review your answers to make sure their views are included 

In particular, we’d like to hear about how they’re involved in your work. In the application form we ask: 

How do you involve children and young people in your work?

Tell us how they:  

  • are involved in your organisation, its activities or services 
  • choose to be involved 
  • influence or make decisions about your work  

What happens after you apply

After you send us your application, we’ll: 

  • email the main and senior contact to confirm we’ve got your application 
  • assess your application and contact you if we need more information 
  • email the main and senior contact in 12 weeks to confirm if your application is successful or not 

If you're successful, we'll email you to let you know what you need to do before you can spend your funding.  

If you’re not successful, we’ll explain why.  

How to manage your funding

If we fund your work, we’ll check in to see how things are going and what you’re learning. You can read our guidance on how to manage your funding. 

We’d like to hear from the children and young people you’re working with. You do not have to involve them in reporting, but you can if you and the children or young people want to. 

For example, they could tell us about their experience by: 

  • making a video or using other creative media 
  • writing a few paragraphs 
  • using photos and quotes 

Children and young people should choose how they want to be involved.