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Meet the Funder – Children in Need Family Fund

Name: Meet the Funder – Children in Need Family Fund
Start: 2024-05-21T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-21T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Online event

Funding to alleviate the pressures associated with furniture poverty and the wider impact on a child or young person’s wellbeing.

BBC Children in Need believe every child and young person deserves the opportunity to thrive and be the best they can be

Delivered by the Family Fund Business Services team, the Emergency Essentials programme provides items that meet a child’s most basic needs, such as a bed to sleep in, a cooker to provide a hot meal and other items critical to a child’s well-being. Our dedicated suppliers work hard to get grant items out quickly to families. Everything is taken care of from – delivery, installation/build (furniture) to recycling of old white good appliances.

The programme aims to alleviate the pressures associated with furniture poverty and the wider impact on a child or young person’s wellbeing. Growing up in poverty brings additional educational and health challenges, leading to significantly diminished life chances.

For any parent or carer, knowing your child will have a safe, comfortable night’s sleep or being able to prepare a warm meal for them and wash their clothes for school the next day, reduces parental stress and helps build better family relationships.

Every day BBC Children in Need’s Emergency Essentials Programme supports children and young people who are facing exceptionally difficult circumstances. The programme has a growing network of referrers regularly accessing these grants for the children and young people they support.

“The Emergency Essentials Programme is really good and quick and easy to do. For me it’s fantastic and means my time is not taken away from families or the children who need me, the response is quick and the delivery options for the family are amazing. The online application is easy to use and the families really need the help.” (Emergency Essentials Referrer)

More information on the Emergency Essentials grants, including how to register as a referrer, and how to apply for a grant on behalf of a family in need, can be found on the Emergency Essentials website www.familyfundservices.co.uk/emergency-essentials/

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BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Grant Programme – Information for New Referrers,

BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme supports children and young people who are facing exceptionally difficult circumstances, and is delivered by Family Fund Business Services. The programme provides items that meet a child’s most basic needs such as a bed to sleep in, a cooker to provide a hot meal and other items or services critical to a child’s wellbeing.

What is Emergency Essentials?

Emergency Essentials grants are for children and young people living with severe poverty as well as having additional exceptional pressures or crisis. We can deliver or fund critical items such as:

Gas or electric cookers
Essential household items
Furniture and kitchen equipment
Children’s beds and bedding
Washing machines
Fridges and freezers
Baby equipment
Clothing in an emergency (including school uniform)

Eligibility

Who can we help?

Children from birth to 17, who are living in the UK
Vulnerable children and young people who are experiencing a crisis or emergency

All grants are discretionary, subject to meeting eligibility criteria and available funding.

Vulnerability

By exceptional difficulties or crisis, we mean an unexpected occurrence outside of the child or young person’s control. The following are not exhaustive, but are examples of the events and circumstances that could be considered: