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Form: MOD support fund for schools with service children: grant application pack

Updated: Replaced documents with updated versions and updated detail section and updated application closing date.

Completed application forms need to be submitted by 16:00 on 30 September 2015.

The ‘Grant application pack’ consists of 5 documents:

a covering letter explaining the role of the fund and the type of information required frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the fund the scoring criteria, which shows how applications will be scored the application form itself bid ideas, examples of successful bids

All 5 documents should be downloaded and read before completion of the application form.

Background

The MOD Education Support Fund was launched in 2011 to assist publicly funded schools, academies and free schools throughout the UK to mitigate the effects of exceptional mobility and/or deployment of their service communities; regular armed forces and reserve forces. Originally £3 million per year, in 2014 the fund was increased to £6 million per year and extended for a further period until 2017/2018.

The fund is different from the Armed Forces Community Covenant Grant Scheme which seeks to forge closer ties between the community and the services who form a part of that community and which is open to a wider variety of organisations to apply once a local community covenant has been signed.

It is also different to the Service Pupil Premium, which is provided to schools in England by the Department for Education in respect of children of serving members of the armed forces.

Directorate Children and Young People (DCYP), which is the MOD’s professional focal point for all matters relating to children and young people associated with the armed forces, are the lead organisation supporting the fund.

DCYP received over 180 applications during the last bidding round which totalled £9 million and were able to issue grants to 154 applicants. Grants from the 2015 round went to a wide variety of different types of application which included funding towards:

training for staff to become ELSA qualified service family liaison officer to provide a key point of contact for service families counselling provision to a cluster of 4 schools educational resources including ICT

Those applications that were successful had in common the fact that they were able to provide strong evidence of a requirement against the criteria and evidence of how the effect of exceptional mobility/deployment would be mitigated by the actions identified within the application.

Applications for the 2016 funding round will be accepted from 1 June 2015 from publicly funded schools, Academies and Free Schools throughout the UK who meet the eligibility criteria. Local authorities are also able to apply in support of these schools.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mod-support-fund-for-schools-with-service-children-grant-application-form

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