Deadline: 27-May-2024
The Triangle Trust Fund are now open for applications and will accept proposals for work supporting young women and girls who are either caught up in the criminal justice system or on the edge of it.
In 2024 the focus is on projects that work with young women and girls and the first funding opportunity will only be open to organisations led by and for women and girls.
They want to fund projects that are focused on young women and girls who already have a history of offending or who are at high risk of registering a first offence.
They are looking to support work that specfically aims to reduce the likelihood of a young woman or girl either entering the criminal justice system or reoffending and support them to move on positively with their lives.
Projects will need to demonstrate age, gender, trauma, and culturally responsive approaches to working with young women and girls. They are particularly interested in supporting work that provides peer support from women with their own lived experience and projects that can demonstrate that they have been co-designed with the voices of young women and girls.
In an effort to fill the gaps in support that exist for young women and girls, they want to provide opportunities for new ideas to be developed and new ways of working to be tested. So, whilst they will fund existing projects, they are also interested in supporting organisations to try out new approaches or grow a much smaller piece of work, as long as it can be clearly demonstrated that it is informed by the experiences and voices of young women and girls.
They will prioritise applications that are targeting young women and girls who are care experienced or from Black or minoritised/racialised communities. These groups are disproportionately represented amongst young female offenders and the intersection between them and offending rates is something that needs to be urgently addressed.
Sectors
- Community and voluntary organisations who can demonstrate a track record of working with young people caught in the criminal justice system or vulnerable hard to engage young people on the edge of the criminal justice system.
Funding Information
- Grants of between £10,000 and £80,000 for a duration of 12 months to two years. The amount of funding requested must be propotional to the project being undertaken
- A maximum of £40,000 per year can be requested
Types of organisations that they will fund
- They will only consider applications from organisations that exist solely to support the wellbeing and welfare of women and girls. Whilst they recognise that there are many exceptional organisations working with a wider group of beneficiaries who provide support to young women and girls, they want to support the women and girls sector specifically with this funding round. Therefore, only organisations ‘led by’ and ‘for’ women and girls will be eligible to apply.
Eligibility Criteria
- They support not for profit organisations working anywhere within the UK, with a registered UK office.
- They particularly welcome applications from organisations working in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
- They welcome applications that:
- Have specific outcomes and targets related to at least two of the following key social impact areas; individual development, health and well-being, employability, education, and social cohesion. The proposed project has to demonstrate how these social impace areas will lead to a reduction in reoffending or first offences.
- Demonstrate that they understand the wide range of challenges and issues that will need to be addressed to help a young person succeed after being released from a Young Offenders Institution or prison.
- Show a track record of either current or previous work with young women and girls and can demonstrate that the proposed project is culturally responsive, and trauma and gender informed.
- Show existing work with young people who have been in the criminal justice system is already taking place and can evidence a track record of helping them to achieve positive outcomes. Clear referral pathways from key partners (such as Police and Youth Offending Teams) should be highlighted as part of this.
For more information, visit The Triangle Trust Fund.