Deadline: 14-Jun-2024
The Community Foundation for Merseyside (CFM) is currently accepting for the Youth Empowerment Scheme.
The scheme, delivered by the Community Foundation for Merseyside (CFM) in partnership with the Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside (PCC) and the Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership (MVRP), is targeted at community projects that offer diversionary activities- particular those that include arts, culture and sports to support young people aged under 25 years who may be more vulnerable to experiencing violence and at risk of anti-social behaviour. This could be due to a lack of self-esteem, experiencing challenges at home, they may live in a community where drugs and alcohol are prevalent, or the community may lack infrastructure and accessible services. All these factors are recognised as increasing vulnerability to experiencing violence and/or exploitation.
Applications can be considered from all areas within Merseyside (Halton is not eligible as this falls under Cheshire PCC) and they encourage applications from areas suffering of high crime and ASB.
The grants panel are keen for organisations to include capacity building costs for your organisation and would encourage consortium/partnership applications that will allow groups to work together (although this is not a requirement). The primary focus of the scheme is community provision and out of school hours engagement.
Interventions/programmes delivered must fall into one of the following types:
- Prevention – Awareness-raising or psycho-social education programmes
- Early Intervention – Developmental and diversionary youth outreach activities and programmes
- Therapeutic – Tailored interventions and programmes
- Desistence – Programmes which aim to cease offending or reoffending
Funding Information
- The minimum grant applied for is £5,000 and maximum grant is £25,000.
- The grants panel will award grants that are proportionate to the turnover of the organisation(s) applying.
Outcomes
- A wide range of arts, culture and sports engagement and prevention activities that meet the below target outcomes can be considered:
- Increased participation of young people in arts, cultural and sports activities
- Increased engagement with young people which is sustainable beyond the funding period
- Improved reported mental health and wellbeing of young people (including anger management)
- Increased perception of personal safety amongst the young people involved
- Improved social, emotional, and behavioural skills
- Improved awareness of the impact of violent crime, particularly knife crime, and the signs and dangers of child criminal exploitation
- Improved aspirations of young people
- Voices of young people and communities being embedded within the organisation
- Increased opportunities for young people
Eligibility Criteria
- Constituted voluntary, community and faith organisations, community sports clubs, registered charities, CIC’s (Limited by Guarantee).
Ineligible
- Individuals
- Organisations with fewer than three unrelated trustees or directors or management committee members
- Projects and activities classed as a statutory responsibility
- Private Businesses or CICs limited by shares
- Retrospective funding
- Politically connected or exclusively religious activities
For more information, visit CFM.