We are now calling for grant applications under all headings for our 2024 meetings.
Your application needs to clearly demonstrate how the project meets our overall funding remit together with our current priorities. See below for dates and deadlines.
Welcome to The Children’s Aid Committee
The Children’s Aid Committee is a charitable trust run by a committee dedicated to the continuing of an effective youth provision for young Jewish people. It was established in 1955 as a funding body to support Jewish youth organisations in the London and Home counties region.
Please look through these pages to learn more about us, the work we do and how to make a Grant Application for your organisation.
Areas that we support
The Children’s Aid Committee provides grants that cover the following five areas:
- Staffing
- Professional development & training
- Informal educational programmes within Schools
- General grants
- Summer schemes
Funding priorities
We have set our funding priorities for the next year to December 2024 and they are listed below in order of importance:
- Grants that address the leadership and professional development of youth workers and those working with young people active in the community.
- Grants that address the challenges of well-being, mental health and safeguarding and bringing these skills, to youth workers and those working with young people or via programmes that address these issues directly with young people. Priority will be given to those in non-statutory organisations within the community.
- All other activities that fall within our charitable remit.
Grant meetings
The schedule of meetings for 2024 are shown below.
At this stage we are calling for applications ,under all headings for our meetings.
| Meeting Date | Grants to cover the following areas | Last date for grant applications |
| January 2024 | All Categories | 9 Jan 2024 |
| April 2024 | All Categories | 27 Mar 2024 |
| June 2024 | All Categories | 4 Jun 2024 |
| November 2024 | All Categories | 30 September 2024 |
Our Funding process
All applicants should be aware of our funding process which is summarised below. More details can be found on our application forms.
- All applications must be received by the due date for the specific meeting that your application relates to.
- Unless otherwise specified, Organisations have to wait one year from the date of a completed grant, before being able to apply again
- All applications must be received with an up to date set of statutory accounts.
- All applications are reviewed at committee meetings.
- Following applications, members of the committee may arrange to visit the applicant.
- Decisions on grant applications will usually be made on the day of the meeting and applicants will be notified within 7 days.
- Where an application requires a site visit or further information then these timescales will be increased accordingly.