Deadline: 28-Nov-22
The Two Ridings Community Foundation is currently seeking applications for its #iwill Fund (National) to support social action activities that create opportunities for young people aged 10-20 to develop their potential and their capacity to significantly contribute to their community.
Social action involves activities such as campaigning, fundraising and volunteering and has huge potential to create enjoyable opportunities and skills development for young people, and in turn benefit the local people and places.
The programme will prioritise young people under the age of 14, as well as young people from socio-economically deprived areas and communities. It will specifically target those scoring lower than 20% on the indices of multiple deprivation and/or those belonging to ethnic groups that have been hit especially hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Priorities
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Applications should address some of the 6 principles of youth social action as articulated:
- Reflective – recognising contributions as well as valuing critical reflection and learning
- Challenging – stretching and ambitious as well as enjoyable and enabling
- Youth Led – led, owned and shaped by young people’s needs, ideas and decision making
- Socially impactful – have a clear and intended benefit to a community, cause or social problem
- Progressive – sustained, and providing links to other activities and opportunities
- Embedded – accessible to all, and well-integrated to existing pathways to become a habit for life
Funding Information
- Grants are available of between £1,000 and £10,000.
- Projects can be up to a year in duration.
- Grants should deliver campaigning, fundraising and/or volunteering opportunities for young people aged 10 to 20 years old, or up to 25 for disabled people.
Eligibility Criteria
- This fund is open to registered charities, constituted community groups and other charitable organisations including Social Enterprises and CICs limited by guarantee in England.
- National organisations with local branches (with their own management committee and bank account) can apply.
- New organisations that can demonstrate they are financially robust can apply.
For more information, visit Two Ridings Community Foundation.
For more information, visit https://www.tworidingscf.org.uk/fund/iwill-fund-national/