Want £1000 to change something in your community?

Help Yourselves! Award Scheme

Thanks for visiting our website. The Help Yourselves Programme has now come to an end and sadly there are no more funding rounds planned.

Save the Children is currently working on what its future small grants work may look like. Please check out main website in future www.savethechildren.org.uk 

How to get started...

  1. Why get involved

  2. Get ideas

  3. Plan your project

  4. Make it happen

Success stories

  • Grange Kabaddi and Street Dance

    Used a Help Yourselves Award from Save the Children and British Gas to organise an inter-school Kabaddi Tournament to bring different schools from other communities together and give them a chance to learn a new sport and make new friends.

  • Modern Mums' Magazine

    Following a successful ?1000 Award the Young Mums received a further ?3000 to produce a second edition of their magazine. This has been distrinuted to every youth club in the Caerphilly Borough

  • The Help Yourselves Award ceremony

    Phase two of the Help Yourselves Awards programme drew to a close in December 2007. All the groups awarded a Help Yourselves grant in phase two were considered against the eight categories of Award criteria. Nine groups were chosen from the 187 grants awarded. These nine groups were brought together on the 15th January 2008 to celebrate their success at Westminster.

  • Thrifty Munch

    They used a Help Yourselves Award to run 'Thrifty Munch', an eight-week healthy lifestyle course for young people on low incomes living on their own or seeking independent living. The young people have had a lot of fun getting together to learn how to plan, prepare and cook healthy and nutritious food within a budget.

Bored? Fed up? Got holidays with nothing to do? Get involved and help yourselves innit!

What it is right, we've all sat around complaining about stuff before but now you've got the chance to make a change...

Awards scheme

Phase 3, Round 2 is now closed. Check back later for information on our next funding round.

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