Deadline: 28-Jul-22
The Listening Fund’s Advisers’ Fund is now welcoming applications! They want to hear from organisations who are working to support young people who have experienced injustice into positions of leadership.
The design of this call has been led by 10 young people from across England. In pursuit of The Listening Fund’s goal – making organizations more accountable to young people – their advisers want organizations to shift power to those they exist to serve, creating leadership opportunities which enable young people to shape strategies, services and systems.
Funding Information
- They have allocated a total budget of £500,000 for the lifetime of this funding programme.
- The maximum grant for which you can apply is £40,000 pa
- Funding is available for 2 years.
They are particularly looking to fund work that:
- Has meaningfully involved young people in its development
- Improves organisations’ accountability to the young people they exist to serve
- Focuses on working with young people who have experienced injustice to bring their experience and expertise into leadership roles
- Is ambitious about realizing changes in an organization’s existing leadership to create better opportunities for young people, and is excited about where that might lead
- Explores new leadership approaches which are grounded in young people’s strengths and interests
- Centers creativity and joy in both the process of change and the final outcome
- Is rooted in an organization’s existing relationships with young people and past experience of involving them in the organization’s work
- Creates ideas, opportunities and learning which have the potential to have influence beyond a small cohort of young people
- Has potential for longer-term impact by, for example, influencing organisations’ and/or systems’ cultures and ways of working
- Is progressive in values and willing to challenge the status quo
Questions they want to explore
Learning from funded work is an important part of their collective impact. They will work with all partners to define their final learning goals, but some of the questions they are interested in addressing through this funding include:
- What are the emerging or established forms of youth leadership which do not currently get the funding they need?
- In the different organizations and systems which affect young people across society, where is youth leadership most absent and how can this be addressed?
- What support, structures and approaches are effective in supporting young people into leadership roles?
- How does increased and improved youth leadership affect an organization and its activities?
- How are the young people who step into leadership roles affected by these opportunities?
- Their learning partner – Collective Discovery – will work across all funded work, supporting organizations with their reflections and working with them to share their knowledge.
Eligibility Criteria
- This funding is for: Youth-focused charities and non-profit organizations in England that are supporting young people (aged 10-30) Organizations with the skills to deliver the work alone, or in partnership
- Either new work to create leadership opportunities for young people, or ongoing work where additional funding will accelerate impact and progress.
Assessment Criteria
- They will be scoring applications according to the organization’s listening culture, the need for the proposed work, the potential for learning, and the application’s potential for joy
- They will also be assessing the mix of partners within the cohort, with an ambition of funding a range of partners across England, working with different groups and ages of young people, in a variety of different ways.
For more information, visit https://www.blagravetrust.org/our-work/listeningfund/