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Grant Funding for 2026
Our grant round (for funding to begin in January 2026) is now open for Expression of Interest applications. The deadline is 8th May 2025.
Please see our ‘How to apply’ page for more information and application forms.
The Ann Perrins Award for Service Development
The Ann Perrins Award for Service Development was launched in January 2024, in memory of Ann Perrins, one of our Trustees, who contributed so much to children and families over many years.
This initiative was open to projects currently supported by the Peter Lang Children’s Trust, with the objective to train relevant staff to gain a recognised accreditation that would be used to set up and deliver a new programme, in line with the Trust’s principal aims.
We are delighted to announce that the grant has been awarded to two projects; The Churn Project and GL11 Community Hub.
The Churn Project will be using the award to train an additional member of staff in the PEEP Antenatal Programme; while GL11 Community Hub will be using the award to train three family workers in the Mellow Bumps Programme.
Both projects are committed to sharing their learning and evaluation with all of the other projects who are supported by the Trust.
Grant funding for 2024
Our grant round (for funding to begin in January 2024) is now open for Expression of Interest applications. The deadline is 5th May 2023.
Please see our ‘How to apply’ page for more information and application forms.
Annual General Meeting 2021
The Trust held its AGM on 2nd December 2021, with all Trustees and Trust Manager present.
Here is a copy of the Chair’s report.
‘Firstly, thank you to Diane, Trust Manager, for all her efficient work over the last year, especially in keeping the Trustees coordinated and liaising with all our funded projects. Also, thank you to every Trustee for contributing their time and expertise to the functioning of the Trust; this had to be largely online rather than face to face, and overall has gone smoothly. In spite of all the pandemic related difficulties, the Trust has enhanced the well-being of a significant number of vulnerable families and their young children within the county, many made more vulnerable by lockdown. We have seen the level of need here significantly increase from the descriptions in the Quarterly Monitoring returns. For instance, the reduction in availability of health visitors has meant that some projects are picking up more undiagnosed developmental delay.
Our portfolio of investments, and income source, continue to be managed by Rathbones and monitored by Trustees, Steve and John. This is deemed to be performing satisfactorily, consistently above the benchmark, especially given the financial situation over the last year. Although Peter Lang Publishers was liquidated and sold on, and in theory the Trust was owed some remaining funds as a creditor, the remaining sum that was due has been written off by our Auditors as a bad debt, as we have been told that further payment is very unlikely.
This year marked another grant round with the re-application of two existing projects and another new application refused on the grounds of a lack of evidence base to back up the proposal.
For the first third of the year projects were again working under the conditions of lockdown, unable to meet directly with parents and children. All successfully adapted to this, as before turning to creative ways to enable them to continue to support the families who had engaged with them by using online facilities such as telephone, social media and Zoom for groups. All Homestart projects had to move over to these ways of working once more, as it was impossible to continue with their usual home visiting; although a return to normal has now mostly occurred. Several centres with suitable premises were able to continue seeing a few clients face to face, while still following government guidelines. With the gradual lifting of Covid-related restrictions we have now seen them all return to face to face working. However, many of the groups have seen a reduction in numbers compared to pre-lockdown as some potential participants continue to feel anxious. All of these measures in response to lockdown helped parents across the county feel less isolated and more supported.
It is widely reported that this period of enforced social isolation was putting a great deal of stress upon families and children, and throughout this year most projects have noted a growth in mental illness and domestic violence. The increased pressure on statutory services, such as social care and mental health also contributed to a surge in demand across the voluntary sector. The full return to face to face working was a slow affair across the county, as many parents remained anxious about the risk of infection and the psychological and social consequences of lockdown linger on. However, those who were able to run outdoor summer schemes of one sort or another reported how much these were appreciated by all involved.
Most of our projects, not all, have adopted at least one recognised outcome measure since we have put more emphasis on this. The grid that sets the list of PLCT desired outcomes against assessment measures has been used to varying degrees of efficiency over the last year; an improvement on previous, but there is still some was to go to attain consistency across all projects.’
Grant Funding for 2022 – closed
The deadline for Expression of Interest applications has now passed. If you submitted an application, you would have been informed of your application status.
Grant funding for 2022
Our grant round (for funding to begin in January 2022) is now open for Expression of Interest applications. The deadline is 6th May 2021.
Please see our ‘How to apply’ page for more information and application forms.
Grant funding for 2020 – closed
The deadline for Expression of Interest applications has now passed. If you submitted an application, you would have been informed of your applications status.
The next grant round will launch in Spring 2021.
Grant funding for 2020
Our grant round (for funding to begin in January 2020) is now open for Expression of Interest applications. The deadline is 7th May 2017.
Please see our ‘How to apply’ page for more information and application forms.
Keeping Fathers in the Frame conference
Thank you to all the delegates and speakers who attended our very successful ‘Keeping Fathers in the Frame’ conference on Friday 9th June.
The presentations from the day can be found on our ‘Conferences and events’ page and will be available until 17th July.
Grant Funding for 2018 – closed
Our current grant funding round has now closed for Expression of Interest application forms. Thank you to all the projects who applied.
Our next funding round will launch in Spring 2019, with funding for successful applicants starting in January 2020.
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