Deadline: 27-Sep-24
SYP Trust is offering small grants to organisations working with young people (with a preference for ages 11-18) in Greater London.
SYP Trust aims to bring about positive change where it is needed in the lives of children and young people in London.
Aims
- Through their grants they aim to:
- Reach children and young people who may be disadvantaged due to their physical or intellectual capacity, citizenship status, race, health and life expectancy, sexual orientation or previous criminal activity.
- Reach children and young people who fall between the gaps of high and low attainment and privilege, who are often left without access to opportunities and whose potential is frequently overlooked.
- Encourage organisations to be flexible and creative in their approach, to be bold and try innovative and untested ideas that have the potential to have meaningful impacts and bring young people into their leadership and decision making.
Funding Priorities
- The grant-making programme focuses on supporting organisations that are providing one or more of the following outcomes for children and young people in London:
- Opportunities and encouragement for young people to access learning and employment: They know that with the right education and learning opportunities and support to keep going, young people are likely to experience a range of positive personal outcomes, affecting where and how they live, and the choices they make in the future.
- The focus area under this priority is currently:
- Work with those disengaged or excluded from compulsory education to achieve qualifications or training that supports their interests and employment aspirations. Primarily for groups where unemployment is demonstrably higher (such as refugees, those with disabilities, school avoiders and young people from traveller communities).
- The focus area under this priority is currently:
- Empowering young people to lead the healthiest lives they can: Being healthy and active makes you feel better, have more energy and can lead to fewer health problems. They want to empower young people to be as healthy as they can be (physically, mentally, emotionally and sexually), regardless of ability or life expectancy.
- The focus area under this priority is currently:
- Medium to long-term support to improve and protect their mental health through tailored and small-scale support that meets their individual needs as identified by the young people themselves.
- The focus area under this priority is currently:
- Engaging young people to feel empowered in their choices, to be able to act independently and to have a voice. Especially when it comes to decisions that affect their today and tomorrow: Young people are the workforce and leaders of tomorrow. By providing opportunities for young people to volunteer, to be involved in important conversations, and to take on responsibility, they can enable them to bring about positive impacts for themselves and others.
- The focus areas under this priority are currently:
- Projects which enable them to develop and demonstrate leadership skills with a practical application.
- Creative projects that enable them to speak out and express their views on key issues, that are presented to the decision makers and communities they wish to influence.
- The focus areas under this priority are currently:
- Opportunities and encouragement for young people to access learning and employment: They know that with the right education and learning opportunities and support to keep going, young people are likely to experience a range of positive personal outcomes, affecting where and how they live, and the choices they make in the future.
Type of Grants
- They typically give in the region of £5-10k per grant and will deliver two funding rounds per financial year.
- Applications can be for project-based work and ideally where they are the sole or main funder, or where the grant will leverage grants of a similar size from other sources.
- Applicants may include a contribution to their overheads within the budget they submit.
- Grants will typically be for a defined period or project, however they are looking to grow relationships with charities who closely align with the priorities and your initial application will not preclude you from applying for further funding.
Eligibility Criteria
- You are eligible to apply if you are:
- A constituted not for profit organisation including registered charities, CICs and exempt charities (Preference will be giving to smaller community-based organisations where the majority of beneficiaries are within the Greater London boundary).
- You can demonstrate you meet one of the three main priorities for children and young people.
- You have an accounts reporting mechanism that allows for the due diligence process or you are able to comply with the requests for enhanced due diligence where they feel it is required (please read the section ‘If a grant is offered’ here for more info). For those operating for at least one year or more this will include the provision of your end of year financial reporting.
- You can fulfil the reporting requirements outlined below and can evidence/detail the outcomes and impact your project has had on its beneficiaries.
- If you have delivery partners for the work you are seeking funding for, there are written agreements between you and your partners which you can share with them.
Ineligible
- Capital works/improvement processes.
- Projects which cannot demonstrate their main beneficiaries will be young people within the age range of 11 to 18 years.
- Organisations with a turnover of over £1m.
- For profit organisations.
- Organisations that cannot sufficiently demonstrate an understanding of the local area in which they plan to work.
- Large organisations seeking to roll out standard programmes to communities in which they have no previous experience and/or cannot demonstrate how they have established the local need for the service.
For more information, visit SYP Trust.
