Comic Relief Young Carers Grants Programme – Deadline 05 March 2010
by Nakhat Zahir (Funding Advice Worker)
9 February 2010
Financial assistance is available to voluntary sector organisations across the UK to support projects for vulnerable and hard to reach young carers. Each funded project will be awarded a maximum of £72,500 over three years.
The Young Carers Grants Programme is funded by Comic Relief and administered by the Princess Royal Trust for Carers. The scheme intends to improve the life chances of the most isolated and vulnerable young carers under the age of 24 across the UK.
Young carers are children and young people who have a caring responsibility for a sick or disabled family member. They take on responsibilities that are inappropriate to their age, such as personal care for a disabled adult or emotional care for a parent with mental health problems. For some young carers this means missing school, physical ill health and stress, or sleepless nights.
The 2010 programme has three key aims:
• To reduce the extent of inappropriate caring roles for the most isolated and vulnerable young carers.
• To increase the support available for the most isolated and vulnerable young carers.
• To increase knowledge and resources to develop replicable models of support for the most isolated and vulnerable young carers.
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