The Ministry of Social Welfare has published the bases that regulate the granting, under a competitive system, of subsidies for the development of actions aimed at social projects to support children and families for the year 2025, for an amount totaling 918,872.00 euros, which represents an increase of 80,000 euros compared to the call for the year 2024.
“Through aid, we guarantee financial support to programs promoted by social entities aimed at serving children and families in the Canary Islands who are having the worst time, not only guaranteeing basic and necessary aspects such as their food but also through support for family intervention services and programs aimed at facilitating family and work conciliation,” clarifies the Minister of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Children and Families of the Canary Islands Government, Candelaria Delgado.
Non-profit entities that have among the purposes established in their statutes the performance of activities considered eligible for subsidies, with at least one year prior to the date of the last day for submitting applications, and whose scope of action is real and effective in the Canary Islands, may access these grants.
The deadline for submitting applications will be 10 business days from the day following the publication of the call in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands, that is, until next Tuesday, July 22.
Applications for aid must be submitted electronically, through the single electronic headquarters of the Government of the Canary Islands, at this link.
The publication of the Order that can be consulted in the National Database of Subsidies: bases
Types of projects
The projects submitted must conform to the aforementioned Typologies and the Services and Benefits of the Public System of Social Services in the Area of Childhood, Adolescence, Young People Under Guardianship or at Risk of Exclusion and families. Specifically, the bases establish four types of projects to be subsidized:
1. Projects aimed at alleviating and improving the situation of social vulnerability of families, covering basic needs of food, hygiene, clothing, etc. and facilitating access to other services such as health, education (school supplies, aid for dining room), housing (rent and improvement of housing conditions, supplies, etc.) as well as accompaniment and social work with families.
2. Projects to support family and work conciliation for families in socio-labor insertion processes with dependent children, such as expenses for attending kindergartens, care for children to cover specific conciliation needs, complementary support services for standardized educational services or others that guarantee the right of children to adequate care and development.
3. Family intervention and support services (intervention and socio-family orientation, mediation family, meeting points or socio-educational care for girls, boys and adolescents).
4. Projects to guarantee the basic right to food, leisure and culture of children during school holidays, non-school periods (weekends and afternoons) and the conciliation of family and work life.