Enrichment Expansion Programme: Delivery partner grant competition
Competition for a delivery partner for the £16.8 million Enrichment Expansion Programme.
Applies to England
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Applications open: 10.00 on 13 April 2026
Applications close: 23:59 on 25 May 2026
Applications for this grant fund must be sent to youth-enrichment-team@dcms.gov.uk with the subject line: Grant Application - [Organisation Name] \ Delivery Partner - Enrichment Expansion Programme.
About the programme
DCMS is providing £16,833,400 of grant funding to a delivery partner/consortium to improve and enhance enrichment provision and support secondary schools to improve their offer.
We are seeking to provide the grant funding to a delivery partner who can work across the 9 English regions and whose approach can be flexed to ensure its offer of support to schools includes the 400 target schools that DCMS will be funding to provide an enhanced enrichment offer.
The activity we fund through this grant should deliver measurable outcomes against the benchmarks set out in the Enrichment Framework, due to be published this academic year.
This grant will provide resource funding only to be utilised in Financial Years 2026/27 to 2028/29. DCMS will cover administration costs between 2 to 6% of the total funding awarded. The £16.8m grant award is exclusive of administration costs.
An assessment panel, appointed by DCMS, will review bids from eligible organisations using the evaluation criteria set out in Annex A to determine the successful applicant.
The deadline for applications is 23:59 on 25 May 2026.