‘Children’s Promise’ Grants Programme Reopens for 2024
The ‘Children’s Promise’ grants programme is a funding programme within Katharine Howard Foundation (KHF). KHF particularly focuses on prevention and early intervention initiatives, to support the best life outcomes for young children. This grants programme is a collaboration with Community Foundation Ireland.
In 2023, the programme received 172 applications, completed to a high standard. After a rigorous selection process, 17 organisations were chosen to be supported through financial and non-financial supports. These organisations work with a wide range of complex issues, but all have a common objective: to harness the childhood potential in particularly vulnerable communities, through supports for pregnant mothers, young children and their families. To read more on the organisations selected, see here.
AIM OF THE GRANTS PROGRAMME 2024
The ‘Children’s Promise’ grants programme aims to support community-based organisations working with young children and their families in disadvantaged areas, who may not reach their potential due to the corrosive impact of poverty. The programme is a promise from KHF to provide financial and other supports to selected organisations, to support and develop the potential of the children engaged with the organisations. It aims to build on the powerful work taking place at statutory and community-level to address child poverty.
This grants programme focuses on ‘promising projects and practices’ within community based organisations, which aim to prevent or intervene at an early stage in addressing the potential impact of poverty on young children and their families. It encourages applications from small, collaborative projects that focus on gaps in provision and innovative approaches to addressing these gaps.
The ‘Children’s Promise’ grants programme supports organisations in the following categories:
- Early years / young children projects, within community-based settings.
- Parental support programmes
- Research into promising programmes or gaps in provision that may help to build policy support in those areas.
- Capacity building within an organisation.
The ‘Children’s Promise’ grants programme 2024 will open for applications online on 27 February and close at 1pm on 21 March.