Deadline: 25-Feb-22
The Blagrave Trust is pleased to launch a call for applications for the Young People in Policy-Making to support young people to influence government policy and decision-making!
What They Intend to Fund
- They want to fund projects, campaigns, and organizations that help young people influence policy that affects them, and so redress power imbalances in policymaking.
- They hope to fund work that builds accessible and inclusive structures for ensuring young people’s voices are heard and acted upon.
Priorities
- Sets out a clear model and process enabling young people to develop and share their ideas
- Builds on the experience of involving young people in policy-making, and/or propose innovative ways of doing so
- Creates an environment for a wide range of young people to learn and work together
- Helps realize the rights of the young people experiencing social injustice, recognizing intersectionality and how different issues might interact
- Demonstrates the ability to support those young people to participate meaningfully
- Faces and addresses the question of privilege.
- There is merit in supporting all young people to influence, but where they fund young people to influence who have experienced higher levels of privilege, they want to be sure they aren’t perpetuating inequality
- Is progressive in values and willing to challenge the status quo
Funding Information
- They have allocated a total budget of £350,000 for the first year of this funding programme, and so depending on proposals received expect to agree around 10 grants of between £30,000-£50,000 per year.
Eligibility Criteria
- Charities and non-profit organizations in England that are supporting young people (aged 16-25) with experience of social injustice to be heard in policy-making processes
- Work targeting either national or local government policy-making, or the policies of large public bodies such as the police or NHS
- Organizations with the skills to deliver the work alone, or in partnership
- Either new or ongoing work
For more information, visit https://www.blagravetrust.org/our-work/funding-young-people-in-policy-making/