Grants of between 10,000 and 500,000 are available fromthe Big Lottery Fund's Family Learning programme, launched lastweek.
It aims to fund a variety of projects that build bonds between childrenand their parents or carers and helps them learn through activities likegardening, cooking, sport and art.
Projects will be expected to show how they will reach out to groups thatmay "have particular barriers to participation in learning or to feelingconfident to support their children's learning".
That might include parents who have had unhappy experiences ofeducation, lone parents, teenage parents, separated fathers, andone-parent families.
Projects must also show how they will overcome problems that mightprevent some families from learning together.
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