£20 million Grant for UK to prevent Children and Young people involved in Violence

Deadline: 14-May-21

The Youth Endowment Fund has launched a new themed grant round: ‘Another chance – Diversion from the criminal justice system’ to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence.

Scope of programmes they’ll fund in this round

They’re looking to fund projects that meet all of the following criteria:

• Your project supports children (aged 10 – 17 living in England and Wales) identified at one of four turning point moments before court action is taken for a crime:
  • Not yet arrested but identified by police or other statutory bodies as at high risk of becoming involved in crime
  • At point of injury due to a violent incident
  • At point of arrest
  • Prior to charge and court action (often referred to as out of court disposals)
• Diversionary programmes that provide:
  • Family and parenting support
  • Mental health and therapeutic support
  • Restorative justice
  • Other approaches if they can demonstrate scale and evidence of impact.
• Programmes that involve a referral by a relevant statutory body, for example:
  • Police
  • Violence Reduction Unit
  • Local Authority Youth Offending Team
  • Acute healthcare trust
  • But programmes may be provided by charities, public services, or private sector organisations.
• Programmes that have sufficient scale and evidence of impact to run a large-scale efficacy and/or effectiveness evaluation, through a randomised control trial or quasi-experimental design method.

Or

• Programmes that require a pilot study, but that could be ready for an efficacy and/or effectiveness trial within two years.

Eligibility Criteria

• At the Youth Endowment Fund, they only provide grants to organisations operating in England and Wales.

For more information, visit https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/themed-grant-round-diversion/