Deadline: 2-Oct-22
The Community Foundation is seeking applications for its program entitled “#iwillFund” to support social action activities that create opportunities for young people aged 10-20, up to 25 for disabled people, to develop their potential and their capacity to significantly contribute to their community.
Projects Prioritise
They will prioritise projects that seek to increase participation from young people from less affluent social economic groups and young people who might not usually take part in volunteering, campaigning and fundraising activities, in particular:
- young people from socio-economically deprived areas and communities, specifically those scoring lower than 20% on the indices of multiple deprivation.
- young people in areas of economic deprivation and those ethnic groups that have been hit especially hard by the Covid-19 pandemic
- Are working with young people at the younger end of the spectrum (10-14 years old)
- Build the appetite of young people to continue with campaigning, fundraising and/or volunteering; support habit forming behaviour; leave a legacy of behaviour/activity after the funding stops
- Involve young people in consultation, planning, delivery and evaluation
- Give young people the opportunity to learn new skills and develop their character and confidence
- Give young people the platform to get their voice heard
Principles
All applications must clearly show how they adhere to some, or all, of the six principles of youth social action as articulated below:
- Reflective – recognising contributions as well as valuing critical reflection and learning
- Challenging – stretching and ambitious as well as enjoyable and enabling
- Youth Led – led, owned, and shaped by young people’s needs, ideas and decision making
- Socially impactful – have a clear and intended benefit to a community, cause, or social problem
- Progressive – sustained, and providing links to other activities and opportunities
- Embedded – accessible to all, and well-integrated to existing pathways to become a habit for life
Funding Information
- Grants between £1,000 and £10,000.
- Projects can be up to a year in duration, shorter periods are acceptable.
- Grants should deliver campaigning, fundraising and/or volunteering opportunities for young people aged 10 to 20 years old, or up to 25 for disabled people.
What they will fund?
- Staff costs – Budget for staffing, including full-time staff, part time staff, sessional staff and other related expenses e.g. a volunteer coordinator
- Development and capacity building costs – Budget to help build capacity and sustainability of organisation e.g. staff/volunteer training, external consultancy fees
- Volunteer costs – Budget for reimbursements of expenses, e.g. telephone calls, travel and meals
- Activity costs – Budget for resources to facilitate a project / activity (which are not already included as part of equipment, volunteer or staffing costs) e.g. catering, insurance
- Skills development projects, which help young people be ‘social action-ready’
- Established groups with an existing youth provision may apply for NEW projects or an expansion and development of an existing project (recruiting new young people etc) which meet the aims of #iwill
Continuation funding for previously funded organisations is available, where the organisation can demonstrate effective and impactful use of the previous grant and learning and adaptation of processes.
Eligibility Criteria
- This Fund is open to registered charities, constituted community groups and other charitable organisations including Social Enterprises and CICs (Community Interest Companies) limited by guarantee in England.
- National organisations with local branches (with their own management committee and bank account) can apply.
- New organisations that can demonstrate they are financially robust can apply.
For more information, visit https://www.communityfoundation.org.uk/group_grant/funding-to-support-young-peoples-involvement-in-social-action/
