Nursery World - Up and running

Time Out opened over a year ago as an out-of-school club. Janey Hewitt talked to its founders about the nitty-gritty of getting going hurry, hurry if you want to apply to the New Opportunities Fund (NOF) for a grant to start up or expand an out-of-school club. The Government has announced funding for another 50,000 new after-school places and the closing dates for applications to the two funding rounds are 15 April and 15 June 2003. Applicants from the voluntary, statutory and private sectors can all apply.

hurry, hurry if you want to apply to the New Opportunities Fund (NOF) for a grant to start up or expand an out-of-school club. The Government has announced funding for another 50,000 new after-school places and the closing dates for applications to the two funding rounds are 15 April and 15 June 2003. Applicants from the voluntary, statutory and private sectors can all apply.

NOF is now also able to provide up to 3 million extra funding for capital expenditure to obtain registration under the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995. Unfortunately, however, funding for Welsh clubs has not been extended as targets have alreadybeen reached.

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