The new fund will be fast-paced and provide grants for equipment, small refurbishments and other capital projects between £5,000-£100,000.
To apply, groups will need to meet a set of specific criteria, including:
🧒🏽 At least 50% of their provision must be for children/young people.
📜 They must be a registered charity, non-profit (like CIC, CLGs with dividend, asset and mission lock), local authority, uniformed group or community benefit society.
📌They must be located in one of 42 locations listed below (not the same list as the Youth Investment Fund)
We will also have a series of objectives, to help us prioritise where the funding will go. Aiming to:
- Improve the reach of youth work: by investing in projects that enhance and or expand the reach, number or range of activities.
- Improve the safety of youth facilities: by investing in refurbishments and equipment that will support the safety of young people within a facility.
- Support the sector to deliver quality enrichment activities: these include activities known to improve young people’s mental wellbeing and physical health, and could be sports, music, art, drama, dance, outdoor/adventure, debating, volunteering, youth groups, business/enterprise and tech/digital, or even opportunities to engage with culture more widely.
- Fund priority areas on the basis of youth need: by investing in places in England where young people have the greatest need (more details below)
- Improve financial sustainability of youth facilities: by investing in facilities that can benefit from potential income generation broadening improved facility/equipment to the wider community.
If this sounds like something you could benefit from, and you’re in one of the locations listed below, then please do keep an eye on emails from Social Investment Business in the coming weeks. 👀
You can also encourage other organisations to subscribe so they hear as soon as it launches.
Local authority areas eligible for our new youth fund coming soon:
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnsley
- Birmingham
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Bolton
- Bradford
- County Durham
- Doncaster
- Enfield
- Hackney
- Halton
- Hartlepool
- Islington
- Kingston upon Hull, City of
- Knowsley
- Lambeth
- Leicester
- Lewisham
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Middlesbrough
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- North East Lincolnshire
- Nottingham
- Oldham
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Rochdale
- Rotherham
- Salford
- Sandwell
- Sheffield
- South Tyneside
- Southwark
- St. Helens
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Sunderland
- Tameside
- Torbay
- Tower Hamlets
- Walsall
- Wolverhampton