The Outlook Fund

The Outlook Fund aims to improve the lives of Cambridgeshire children that face difficulty and disadvantage, with a focus on the more than 400 Looked After Children.

Outlook Fund grants will be made to charitable projects that offer extra activities and opportunities that can help disadvantaged children widen their experience, gain self confidence, and succeed at school.

The Outlook Fund has adopted a long term approach to fund raising. All money donated into the fund will be held as an endowed sum and on an annual basis a percentage of the fund (currently 5%) will be used to make grants to local groups that are working to improve the quality of the lives of Cambridgeshire children that face difficulty and disadvantage.

More information on the Fund can be found at www.OutlookFund.com, a website created by Alex Reid, the inspiration and driving force behind the Outlook Fund.

Donations to the fund are welcome, whatever the size.

Applications for funding

Applications are invited from small, local groups with chariatble purpose who are working with disadvantaged children and young people in Cambridgeshire, with a focus on projects for looked after children. 
 
Outlook Fund grants will be made to charitable projects in Cambridgeshire that offer extra activities and opportunities that can help widen a young person’s experience, gain self confidence, and succeed at school. 
 
Grants can cover a range of costs including small capital items, travel costs, tuition costs, entrance costs, and course costs.  The typical grant for a single project is anticipated to be in the range £500 to £2500. An organisation may make more than application at a time.  Contributions towards staff costs will be limited to no more than 10% of the grant value. 

The total funds anticipated at this stage to be available each year for disbursement by the Outlook Fund are approximately £20,000, with ~80% of grants being made to projects working with look after children 

Applications will be reviewed at the two panel meetings held each year in March and September - to be considered we must have your application 2 weeks before the start of the month in which the panel is held.