HNY2026Happy New Year!

The NatSIP Steering Group wish you a Happy New Year and all the best for 2026.
Thank you to for your support of NatSIP during 2025 and for all you do for children and young people with deafness, multi sensory and vision impairment.  
We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at NatSIP and NatSIP partner events in 2026.

Lindsey Jane Rousseau
NatSIP Facilitator

 

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award - funding opportunities

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award team is currently working to raise awareness among ANAP (Additional Need and Alternative Provision) settings about the funding available to help them deliver the DofE to the young people they support.

The Funding for Additional Needs and Alternative Provision (ANAP) project, supported by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, is available to state-funded SEND schools, Alternative Provisions, and Pupil Referral Units that receive funding through their local authority or directly from the government.

Applications close on 11 December 2025, and they are keen to ensure as many organisations as possible have the opportunity to access this funding. They are dedicated to making the DofE more widely available and accessible, ensuring that young people with special educational needs and disabilities have equal access to the life-changing opportunities the DofE offers.