Every two years we review our grant-making programmes by consulting with leading professionals in the voluntary sector. This is to ensure that the money we raise best meets the needs of the people and communities we want to help. We also monitor and evaluate individual grants regularly to see the difference that they have made. The public put their trust in Comic Relief to use the money we raise wisely and well. Our grant-making teams take that trust very seriously indeed.
All grant applications go through a rigorous assessment process before a single penny is released.
After a thorough shortlisting process, grant applications are assessed by Comic Relief Grants Officers or assessors. Each assessment is then considered by the Grants Managers, Grants Director and discussed by the Grants Committees. Once the Committees are happy to recommend funding, Comic Relief's trustees make the final decision. Comic Relief's Red Nose Day funding programme takes place over a period of two years and is divided into five cycles. Each cycle has an equal share of the overall money allocated to spending in the UK and in Africa.