Deadline: 1-Sep-22
The Witney Town Council is delighted to be opening its Youth Funding Grant to applications again to support young people’s access to activities they are interested in, maintains play provision and encourages the voice of youth in the decisions that affect them through the work of the Witney Youth Council.
This is an exciting opportunity for community and voluntary sector organisations, including existing organisations and those in the process of setting up.
The Council will look favourably on those who create opportunities to be accessible to all young people, therefore applications demonstrating how they will extend their reach to young people who have not previously engaged with these opportunities are encouraged.
Purpose
- The Youth Fund is open to applications from community and voluntary sector organisations, including existing organisations and those in the process of setting up to establish easily signposted and accessible youth opportunities, supporting open access to preventative services, particularly for those who may be hard to reach and to extend activities to support the young people of Witney.
- Activities may include, for example, providing guidance and support about their lives and issues relating to school, family life and peers through way of drop-in sessions.
- Applications may, for example, facilitate the provision of a safe space for young people who would otherwise have nowhere to go, including a safe space to talk, and the ability to enjoy some selfdirected or group/organised discretionary activities. In this instance funds could be requested towards facility hire costs and towards a permanent youth structure in the town.
- Once the available resource is used the Youth Funding Grant will be closed.
Funding Information
- The pot has increased from £30,000 to £40,000 this year
Eligibility Criteria
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Applications will only be accepted from the following:
- Local Charitable and/or non-profit-taking organisations (existing or start-up groups)
- Community Groups
- Religious Groups (providing the funding is for non-religious activities for young people)
- Volunteer Groups
Note: Organisations applying to Witney Town Council should be local to Witney or, if just outside the boundary, its work should be of significant benefit to the town and its residents.
Ineligible
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Regrettably, applications from the following will not be accepted:
- Commercial Organisations
- Individuals
- Charities operating overseas
- Funds established to help persons outside the UK
- Churches & Ecclesiastical charities (towards the upkeep of a building)
- National appeals are, with limited exceptions, also outside the legal scope of the Council’s grantaid scheme
- Grants cannot be made to cover money already spent and the giving of a grant one year does not set a precedent for another.
Note: Preference will be given to organisations who have not already received funding from any other body. The Council will look favourably on organisations who can demonstrate they have been unsuccessful in obtaining funding from their national bodies or West Oxfordshire District Council.
For more information, visit Youth Services Funding.
For more information, visit https://www.witney-tc.gov.uk/news/witney-town-council-youth-services-funding-applications-open/