Deadline: 22-Nov-22
Grants of up to £15,000 for community organisations supporting young people (aged 14-30 years) to get good, productive and rewarding jobs in South Yorkshire.
Priority will be given to organisations working specifically with vulnerable and marginalised young people.
Aims and Priorities
- The aim of this funding is to help community organisations support young people in South Yorkshire to get good, productive and rewarding jobs.
- By young people, they mean people aged between 14- and 30-years-old living in South Yorkshire.
- Based on consultation with local employers, partners and community organisations, they understand that supporting young people into productive and rewarding employment needs a range of approaches, from pre-employability through to pathways into work, so they are looking to fund activity across all three of the approaches below.
Funding Information
- Up to £15,000 over three years (i.e., up to £5,000 per year).
Approaches
- Pre employability skills – engagement, soft skills development: Under this heading they expect to fund activity focused on engaging young people, raising aspirations, and ensuring they have the soft skills and the confidence to continue their journey towards work.
- Applications will be expected to demonstrate that they are reaching those that are furthest away from work: vulnerable, underrepresented and marginalised.
- Pre employment and establishing pathways – interview techniques, access to support centres, mentoring, skills training: Under this heading, they expect to fund activity to get young people ready for work. This might include providing work-ready skills training or supporting young people to gain qualifications which link to employment. It could also include CV writing, interview practice, job coaching or mentoring.
- Pathways to Employment – offering apprenticeships, kickstart programmes, graduate schemes, work experience, employment: Under this heading, they expect to fund activity which completes the pathway into employment. They anticipate this will include supported work experience placements or engaging with apprenticeships or kickstart programmes. Under this heading they also hope to fund the wraparound support which can help young people to secure a good employment, and perhaps even more importantly to stay and progress in employment.
Priority Groups:
- Across all three approaches, priority will be given to organisations working specifically with vulnerable and marginalised young people, including the following:
- Young people suffering mental health and isolation issues
- Young people with a history of drug and alcohol abuse
- Ex-offenders or those at risk of offending
- Young people in or leaving the care system
- Black, Asian and other Minoritised Ethnic groups
- Young people suffering inequalities: gender, race, disabilities
- Young people living in workless households
- Young people living in geographical areas of high unemployment
- Young people who disproportionately struggle to access work: young carers, LGBTQ+ people, Gypsies and Travellers, young people with special educational needs
Eligibility Criteria
- Moving On Up grants are for community organisations in South Yorkshire. This includes charities, community groups, and not-for-profit social enterprises. To be eligible for a grant you must:
- Have a governing document (e.g., a constitution or memorandum of association),
- Have a board or management committee of at least three unrelated people,
- Have a bank account in the name of the group requiring at least two unrelated signatories, and
- Have beneficiaries who live in South Yorkshire and be locally led and run.
- They will only fund local offices or branches of a national charity if they have their own local management committee and manage their own local finances. A partnership approach is particularly encouraged, because they believe that community organisations can achieve more by working together with other community groups, businesses and statutory partners. One organisation will need to submit
- the proposal as the lead applicant, taking responsibility for the application as a whole and ensuring that roles and responsibilities of all partners are clearly set out within the application. It will be expected that the lead applicant has previous experience and expertise to deliver the project, working alongside other organisations.
Ineligible
- Grants cannot be awarded to fund:
- For-profit organisations, statutory organisations (e.g., schools and hospitals) or overseas organisations
- Retrospective funding (activity and costs that have already taken place or repayment of money which has already been spent)
- Overseas trips or expeditions
- Grant-making to other organisations and/or individuals
- Organisations or activities primarily for the benefit of animals rather than people
- Activity that promotes a particular political or religious point of view They can fund religious organisations (like a church, mosque or gurdwara) delivering activity which benefits the community (like running interview skills sessions), but they cannot fund religious services or activity intended to promote a particular religion.
For more information, visit https://www.sycf.org.uk/grants-to-organisations/moving-on-up-young-people-and-employment-programme/