Kick start the Year of the Dragon with our great new funding opportunities for UK-China partnerships. We’re offering three different grant opportunities, open to schools with existing UK-China partnerships.
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Visit Grants – build your relationship and develop your partnership |
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Project Grants – work with your partner on a curriculum-based project |
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Better Community, Better Life Grants – work with your partners on a community-themed art project |
The deadline for applications is 31 March 2012.
Want to further develop the relationship with your partner teachers? We’re offering grants for you to host your Chinese partner teachers in the UK, or for travel to visit your partner schools in China.
Eligibility: Open to UK schools in a cluster partnership with China. The partnership must include at least six schools in each country.
Funding: £4,500 per cluster to be spent on the costs of hosting Chinese partners (eg accommodation, meals etc) or on travel from the UK to China
How to apply: Read the Visit Grants guidance notes, make sure you’re eligible and download the application form.
Priorities: Please refer to the Visit Grants guidance notes to learn more about our funding priorities for Visit Grants.
Do you have a strong, established partnership? Then choose a project topic to suit the curriculum in your school and your Chinese partner school(s) and work together. We’re offering funding for travel and project costs.
You can either apply as a cluster partnership or as an individual school with a single Chinese partner school.
Eligibility: Open to UK schools in a cluster partnership with China. The partnership must include at least six schools in each country. The project themes and topics must be agreed across the whole cluster partnership.
Funding: £9,000 per cluster to be spent on travel and/or project costs.
Eligibility: Open to any UK school with an existing partnership with a Chinese school.
Funding: £1,500 per school to be spent on travel and/or project costs.
How to apply for Project Grants: Read the Project Grants guidance notes, make sure you’re eligible and download the application form
Priorities: Please refer to the Project Grants guidance notes to learn more about our funding priorities for Project Grants.
Want to work on a curriculum project with your partner cluster? Save time and let us do the planning for you. We’ve created a special education pack to help you work on joint activities through the Better Community, Better Life project. This creative, ready-made project gets your pupils working with their Chinese peers to create beautiful artwork and take action in their local community. Funding is available for travel and/or project costs.
The project: Read the BCBL Grants guidance notes to learn more about Better Community, Better Life
Eligibility: Open to UK schools in a cluster partnership with China. The partnership must include at least six schools in each country.
Funding: £6,000 per cluster to be spent on travel and/or project costs.
How to apply: Read the BCBL Grants guidance notes, make sure you’re eligible and download the application form.
Priorities: Please refer to the BCBL Grants guidance notes to learn more about our funding priorities for BCBL Grants.
31 March 2012: Deadline for applications:
Mid-April 2012: Decisions made and applicants notified
If you have any questions or need advice on your application, please contact us
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