Sport Relief: Safe, Secure, Settled Grant Programme

Overview

They will consider work that supports children and young people aged up to and including 25. They will also consider family-based interventions where the majority of beneficiaries are under 25.

Funding available

Applications are welcome for a minimum of £100,000 and a maximum of £500,000, over a period of between two and four years.

They will support projects being delivered in the UK, India, South Africa, Brazil or Kenya. Applications for work in India, South Africa, Brazil or Kenya can be made by a locally registered organisation directly delivering the project or in partnership with a UK-based organisation.

Your grant request should be appropriate to the size of your organisation.

Aims and Objectives

• They are interested in supporting a wide variety of projects and welcome bids from a diverse range of organisations.
• They are looking for creative approaches to support young people without a safe or secure place to live. All proposals must use sport as a tool for social change in their approach.
• They believe that projects developed and delivered in partnership with the people they aim to support will be more effective in creating positive social change. Projects like this are more likely to respond to the priorities of the people they are trying to reach and be more able to identify appropriate solutions. They may also benefit from greater accountability and legitimacy, and by empowering people to be part of the process, have the potential to build confidence and strengthen community cohesion.

Project Design

They are looking for work which can make a meaningful change to the lives of young people who are without a secure or safe place to live. They want to hear from organisations who can demonstrate a deep understanding of what makes a positive difference for young people in this situation in their local context. They expect that projects will contribute to a minimum of one of the following outcomes:

• Children and young people increase and/or sustain their engagement with education
• Children and young people have increased pathways into training or employment
• Children and young people increase life skills*
• More children and young people have a safe and supportive network or trusted place to go for advice

*e.g. Money management, daily living skills, legal rights, problem solving, creative thinking, communication, interpersonal relationships, mindfulness, assertiveness, empathy, coping with stress, trauma and loss, resilience.

• They expect organisations to consider who else they need to work with in order to achieve their project outcomes. They encourage organisations to work with partners to ensure a targeted, holistic approach

What does Sport for Change mean?

Comic Relief defines Sport for Change as bringing about positive social change for individuals and communities through the intentional use of sport and physical activity.

They know that taking part in sport and physical activity leads to an increase in self-esteem and self-confidence for most people and they are making the assumption that this underpins all programming. For this programme they want proposals go above and beyond confidence building and to demonstrate how sport can be used to achieve positive social change. Proposals to this initiative will need to demonstrate wider social outcomes and not just focus on increasing participation in sport for the physical health benefits.

One of the main reasons that applicants are unsuccessful for funding under their Sport for Change initiatives is that organisations find the term Sport for Change confusing. They have developed a short guide to help explain what Sport for Change is, and what makes a good Sport for Change project. They strongly encourage you to read it before starting your application. Find out more about Sport for Change