BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme Reopens

Applications must be made through an organisation that is supporting the family or young person and is capable of assessing their needs, and that can also administer the grant.

The support is for the following:

• Children aged under 18 years who are experiencing a crisis or emergency.
• UK or EU citizens who are normally resident in the UK.
• Where the child or young person’s family do not have access to support and have insufficient resources to meet their needs.
• Where a child or young person’s family are experiencing poverty or destitution or are in receipt of a means tested benefits.
• Where vulnerable low income families have been affected by the recent severe floods.

Consideration may be given where a child or young person, or their family, have an asylum application under assessment or in circumstances where residency criteria is not consistent across the family unit.

Due to the high demand for BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials grants, only one application per household within a 12 month period will be accepted.

The application for each household will take into account the needs of all children under the one application, it does not mean only one child per household can be supported.

Eligible Expenditure: Funding is available for critical household items as follows:

• Electric cookers.
• Furniture, kitchen equipment and small appliances.
• Clothing.
• Baby equipment.
• Fridges and freezers.
• Washing machines.
• Tumble dryers.
• Children’s beds and bedding, including cots.

Support may also be available for vulnerable low income families have been affected by the recent severe floods.

BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme