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The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust - Armed Forces Families Fund: Early Years Programme
Created: 13/03/2025
News/Events Category: Funding and Finance
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Under this programme the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust will award grants of between £5,000 and £80,000 on behalf of the MOD’s Armed Forces Families Fund Early Years Programme, towards projects lasting up to two years, which help enhance early childhood education and childcare settings to meet specific needs of young children from armed forces families.
They are looking for projects that can deliver sustainable change. This means that they want to know what evidence you have to support the approach that you seek to take, and crucially, how people from armed forces communities have helped to shape this.
Your project must clearly benefit armed forces families with a child under the age of five by enhancing their access to high quality childcare.
This year, they are focusing on four outcomes. Your project will need to contribute towards at least one of these outcomes:
- Increased capacity at the setting to allow more service children to attend
- Better learning environments for service children
- Have provided appropriate training and development to staff to support service children
- Establishing collaborative networks and shared resources through clusters to address the needs of service children
Eligibility
They invite applications from:
- Early childhood education and childcare providers operating where armed forces families live or work and must offer group-based childcare and have at least 50% of service children on roll
- Local authorities who wish to supply specific training to early childhood education and childcare providers supporting service children aged 0-5 years and provide a shared resource working across multiple settings.
- If your setting has less than 50% service children on roll, you could still apply as a cluster. This means submitting a group bid on behalf of two or more setting with smaller numbers of service children
If you choose to apply as a cluster, you can apply for:
- Staff training with an armed forces focus
- Funding for a shared resource, such as a roving Armed Forces Early Years Support Worker
How to apply
Click here for more information about the application process.
The closing date for applications is 11.59am on Wednesday 04 June 2025.
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