Deadline: 1-Dec-22
Are you working to improve the lives of young people aged up to 24 years old? Do you have an idea to give young people new skills and self-confidence? Perhaps getting them into training, work or more involved in their community? Alternatively, you may have a project to increase young people’s resilience? If so, you could qualify for a grant from the Projects for Young People Programme.
They will prioritise funding for local, smaller organisations. Larger, national organisations must demonstrate a local delivery capability in their target area, or partnership with local organisations, or a specific skill or capability not otherwise accessible to the local community.
Funding Information
- Amount of Grant Funding available and frequency of fundingrounds:
- For Large Grant programmes (Environment & Sustainability Grants, Projects for Young People) – Groups can apply for up to £7,500 for one year, for projects costing no more than £30,000 in total (i.e. HCT funding may be a contribution to the total cost of the project, provided the total cost is no more than £30,000). Awards are made in a single stage process, and there are one or two application rounds a year depending on programme.
- For Small Grant programmes (Communities Together and HAPi) – Applicants can apply for up to £2,500), for projects costing no more than £10,000 (i.e. HCT funding may be a contribution to the total cost of the project, provided the total cost is no more than £10,000). Awards are made over a single-stage process.
Eligibility Criteria
- The application process is open to local authorities, schools, charities, community groups, social enterprises and not for profit companies subject to the specific eligibility criteria. Community groups could be a youth club, resident’s association, charity, or even a group of like-minded neighbours. Groups should have a constitution and a bank account in the name of their organisation. For new or less formal groups, you may need to work in partnership with another organisation that could hold the funds for you and provide other guidance and support.
- They will consider projects run by local authorities only where they are working in partnership with local voluntary and community organisations, as long as it is activity outside that which they are statutorily required to provide and which would not otherwise be possible. Matched funding must be demonstrated. Local authorities should also show clearly how they’re engaging the local community and community or voluntary groups with relevant expertise.
- They will consider non-religious projects run by faith groups only if they are accessible to all religions and benefit the wider community or clearly show how they’ll increase community cohesion.
- They work to connect groups to networks, other community organisations, other funding sources and non-financial support such as businessvolunteers.
- Projects must be focused on at least one of the themes of the individual Grant programme to which you are applying. It is not necessary to cover all of the criteria for a grant programme in a single application and it may be better to focus on a single theme which you can demonstrate well.
- Location – Your project must take place in one (or more) of the following local boroughs – Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Richmond, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Slough, South Bucks, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Exception – Heathrow Active People Initiative (HAPi) and Matched Funding schemes – While their other grant streams focus on the local boroughs, they will accept bids for any UK borough under these grant stream. Both schemes are only open for application to Heathrow Airport employees. They will only accept Matched Funding applications for events that have taken place no more than 4 months prior to the panel meeting.
Ineligible
- Heathrow Community Trust generally do not fund residential trips for young people since such trips do not represent value for money in terms of effecting a long-term impact on young people in terms of increased resilience, improved employability or raised aspirations. However, Heathrow Community Trust would support such costs if they formed part of a clear programme which involved interventions before and after the trip to embed impact.
- They won’t fund projects in schools or colleges to deliver core curriculum or statutory requirements, but will consider projects which provide a facility or service to benefit the wider non-school community, or where the work is clearly outside of the curriculum/ statutory requirements. The school/college must additionally be contributing a minimum of 10% of the total cost of the project
- They will consider projects run by local authorities only where they are working in partnership with local voluntary and community organisations, as long as it is activity outside that which they are statutorily required to provide and which would not otherwise be possible. Matched funding must be demonstrated. Local authorities should also show clearly how they’re engaging the local community and community or voluntary groups with relevant expertise.
For more information, visit https://www.heathrowcommunitytrust.org/need-funding/projects-for-young-people