Welcome to The Children’s Aid Committee
We are a charitable trust run by a committee dedicated to the continuing of an effective youth provision for young Jewish people. The trust 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.
We are now calling for grant applications that meet the specific challenges detailed below, for our remaining 2026 meeting.
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.
New Policy on Grant Eligibility
PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE MAKING AN APPLICATION
Due to revised Charity Commission obligations around safeguarding and governance, going forward, we will only accept grant applications from charities on our approved list. This list is initially based on charities we have funded in the last five years, and may be added to in the future if new charities meet our criteria.
If your charity is not currently on the approved list, please do not submit a grant application, as we will not be able to consider it.
If you would like your charity to be considered for the approved list, please contact us first at info@thecac.org.uk and include the following information:
- Charity name
- Charity registration number
- Registered address
- Names of trustees
- Website
- Charitable objectives, as set out in your governing document or constitution
We will review the information you provide and let you know within three weeks whether your charity has been added to the approved list.
Please note that we will not provide reasons for decisions about whether a charity is added to the approved list or not.
Only once your charity is added to the approved list, you will then be able to submit a grant application.
Areas that we support
The Children’s Aid Committee provides grants that cover the following five areas:
- Professional development & training
- Innovative programmes for Jewish Youth that address our funding priorities
- Staffing
- Grants for youth activities
- Holiday schemes
Funding priorities
We have set our funding priorities for the next year to December 2026 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.
- Innovative grants that promote Jewish identity and enhance resilience.
- All other activities that fall within our charitable remit.
Grant meetings
The schedule of meetings for 2026 are shown below.
At this stage we are calling for applications, under the following headings for our meetings.
| Meeting Date | Grants to cover the following areas | Last date for grant applications |
| October 2026 | Our next and final grant giving meeting of the year will take place in October 2026. | 30th September 2026 |
| The Committee will only be taking applications for grants that address the challenges of advocacy and resilience facing young people currently on campus or preparing to enter higher education.Please only apply if your application addresses these specific challenges.
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