Deadline: 31-Mar-21
The Julia and Hans Rausing Trust has announced a call for proposals for the Youth Centre Recovery Fund to help charities running youth centres to be able to survive and recover from the impact of Covid-19.
The aim is to ensure that youth centres remain viable and are able to re-open or continue to deliver services as the country emerges from Covid-19 restrictions. The pandemic and concomitant actions taken to combat it are likely to have a significant negative impact on young people’s mental health and life chances, especially those from less advantaged backgrounds. As such, it is critical that charities running youth clubs are able to continue to provide support and opportunities to young people.
Aims
- Ensuring youth clubs at risk of permanent closure due to lack of income remain viable and are able to remain open or, were temporarily closed, to re-open when possible.
- Maintaining continuity of youth work and restoring temporarily paused activities (when restrictions allow), where lack of funding would otherwise reduce services.
Funding Information
- A total of £8 million is available to provide core funding for the costs of running youth centres and delivering youth work. Funding will cover the period from 1 April – 30 September 2021.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible organisations are those that meet the following requirements:
- A charity registered with and regulated by the Charity Commission (unregistered or excepted charities, or other non-profit forms, are not eligible).
- Is based in and operates in England.
- Runs a physical youth centre, defined as a fixed space or venue within a locality in England within which young people can meet and participate in youth work activities (centres that are temporarily closed due to Covid-19 are still eligible to apply).
- Has as its primary purpose the running of services benefitting children/young people.
- Offers general, non-uniformed youth activities (uniformed youth groups are not eligible).
- Delivers youth work through a range of services/activities (or if focused on one activity, e.g. sport, delivers this within a youth work context that focuses on personal and social development).
- Has at least two sets of published annual accounts.
For more information, visit https://www.juliahansrausingtrust.org/youth-centre-recovery-fund/