'Myplace' Programme - funding for children's projects

If you are working with children and young people you may be interested in the recently announced 'myplace' programme:

The Big Lottery Fund is delivering a new programme, called 'myplace', on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families. Myplace responds to the commitments made in Aiming High for Young People: a ten year strategy for positive activities , and is part of the Every Child Matters programme. This ten-year programme will deliver £190m over its first three years through two rounds of funding, with grants of £1m to £5m.

The programme seeks to fund "new and improved places to go" for young people, and includes fast-track funding for projects that are already well developed. Myplace also seeks to link projects with the government's "wider integrated strategy for... improving services... and the infrastructure that supports their delivery."

Further information is available in the myplace leaflet (PDF format). Application and guidance materials will be available for download from the Big Lottery Fund website from 6 May 2008.