Awards and funding
Mackintosh Foundation grants: Up to £10,000 for registered charities involved in children's educational art projects.
Funding Central: Keep an eye on this. The link is always on our funding page
Young Persons' Funding Pot - Barnsley: Small grants for young people's clubs. Apply by 10 February
The Nominet Trust £250,000 Challenge
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - funding for mainstream/supplementary school partnerships
Grants and general funding opportunities
Funding know-how: Log in for tips and advice
Blog power
Latest VCS Hub members' blogs
World Happy Day Film Screening - The Special Yoga Centre
Learn Community Projects Havering: Trained tutors at after-school, breafast and reading clubs.
General members' blogs
Melanie Eustace: UCL research project - we need your help please!
ICT and the over-65s: Homage to Olive and Maria - and Vi...
Gary Bell - The not so dreaded sequel...
Blog about your ideas, successes - or even your extra-curricular blues...
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Try this forum: Extra-curricular activities
About the Learning Exchange
A virtual community of practitioners offering extra-curricular and extended service programmes which aim to raise aspirations and improve outcomes for children, young people, families and communities. Find out more here.
Schools and local authorities
Search the new VCS Hub for quality-checked voluntary and community sector organisations offering extra-curricular activities to KS1, KS2 or KS3 pupils, or SEN pupils up to age 16.
Free membership – plus FREE extra-curricular training and resources.
Find out more and join us here.
The voluntary sector
Does your organisation offer extra-curricular activities for young people between 5 and 14 or for SEN pupils up to age 16?
Let schools find you on the VCS Hub. Free until September 2012 (includes Learning Exchange membership). Free extra-curricular training included.
Find out more and register
Do your activities and programmes cater for children aged 0 to 5 years or 14 to 19? Free Learning Exchange membership until September 2012, plus free extra-curricular training.
Find out more and join the Learning Exchange
Find training opportunities
Free training: Improving outcomes through Extra-curricular activities
Book your place in Coventry or London
Find other training
UFA training: Supporting My Teen to Learn
Commissioning Skills Training Programme
Find extra-curricular activities
Stop press news!
Congratulations to Mapis Project CIC in Bracknell, which has just attained the QiSS First Quality Mark. Schools, log in and check out what Mapis offers your pupils:
Find more VCS organisations offering extra-curricular activities
Afghan Association Paiwand - Support for Black and minority ethnic groups of young people;
support for underachieving boys in deprived areas.
The Special Yoga Centre - Extra-curricular yoga for children with special education needs.
Voluntary sector organisations
Help schools to find you...
Register today on the VCS Hub
Explore our library...
Find a Library gem
TED talks at www.ted.com: Studio schools
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Find information documents written by experienced practitioners
Extra-curricular practice series
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Read useful articles and find top tips
Let's get clear about quality...
Is it worthwhile striving for quality in extra-curricular provision - and how do we measure it?
About Quality in Study Support (QiSS) and QiSS First Steps
Extra-curricular activities: Top tips for members
Our partners
We're working to help schools improve outcomes through extra-curricular activities. Our partners are key to making this happen.
Find or share a case study
Case studies can give your stakeholders – governors, funders, parents, delivery partners – information about impacts on the lives of children, young people and families who take part in extra-curricular activities or use extended services.
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