Coram Youth Homelessness Grants Programme – UK

Deadline: 29-Jul-2024

Coram, with funding from Oak Foundation, is calling for expressions of interest to support grassroots organisations working with young people (aged 16-25) who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in London.

The grants will start in October 2024 and run for a year. They will enable the selected organisations to build their capacity, primarily by delivering their own project, but also joining a collaborative programme run by Coram.

Aims

• The aims of this funding are to:
  • build the capacity of grassroots organisations working with young people affected by housing and homelessness issues
  • unleash the potential of young people with lived experience of challenges around housing and homelessness, enabling them to have their voices heard in their local communities and beyond
• They’d particularly like to reach the most disadvantaged young people at highest risk of homelessness. For example (though they are open to you telling them about other needs): care-experienced young people or those who should have been recognised as entitled to care; young migrants and refugees; those from global majority communities; LGBTQI+ communities; D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent young people.

Funding Information

• Grant of £25,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• You are a grassroots not-for-profit organisation with a turnover of between £100,000 and £1 million per annum, with accounts for the last two years, and a high-quality safeguarding process
• You already support young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in London. Working on homelessness or with young people doesn’t need to be your only or even your main activity, so long as you can demonstrate some track record with relevant target groups, and are looking to extend your reach and support to them
• You can demonstrate an existing commitment to youth participation and participatory processes
• Your project builds your own capacity. They understand these are challenging times and have a very broad definition of capacity-building.
• Your project involves young people with lived experience from the start
• You are able to engage with Coram’s collaborative programme.

Ineligible

• Work taking place outside Greater London
• Work undertaken or costs incurred before October 2024
• Services that actively seek to promote any religion

For more information, visit Coram.