Young People’s Wellbeing Fund in the UK

Deadline: 15-Mar-23

The Heart of Bucks Community Foundation is accepting applications for the Young People’s Wellbeing Fund.

Purpose

• To encourage positive activities which enhance emotional wellbeing and resilience during non-school time for children and young people, for example, by:
  • Equipping people with strategies and tools to manage their emotional wellbeing
  • Improving resilience
  • Improving knowledge and understanding of the symptoms of mental ill health
  • Improving knowledge of and access to the sources of support available
  • Breaking negative cycles which can limit children’s life chances.

Priority: Priority will be given to projects which can demonstrate that their activity has been codesigned with the intended audience.

Funding Information

• Grants available: up to £15,000.

What they can fund

• Project costs – such as hire of venues, trainers, refreshments etc
• Core/overhead costs – where these are required to deliver a defined project
• Capital expenditure – they would not expect capital costs to exceed 25% of the overall project cost. Please contact us to discuss further if you think you may need to exceed this

What they can’t fund

• Activities:
  • Taking place during school hours
  • Promoting a particular religious or political belief
  • Overseas travel
  • Projects which are already completed
  •  Individuals
  • Statutory bodies (excluding parish/town councils)
  • Profit-making organisations
  • Activity which is a statutory responsibility of a public body.
• Organisations:
  • Whose principal purpose is animal welfare
  • Who have shareholders (Community Benefit Societies are permitted)
  • Schools or school affiliated bodies.

Eligibility Criteria

• Projects must be working with:
  • Children and Young people up to the age of 18 OR
  • If entirely focussed on care leavers or young people with disabilities, up to the age of 25
• AND who are either:
  • From a community identified as at higher risk of poor emotional wellbeing and poor mental health. (They do not intend to limit this further, but in your application you will be asked to evidence how the particular group you wish to work with are at higher risk) OR
  • Living in an area of particular disadvantage in Buckinghamshire. A significant proportion of service users will be from the priority wards identified in the Buckinghamshire Council’s Levelling Up plan.
  • Registered charities, Charitable Incorporated Organisations, community groups, social enterprises, Community Interest Companies (limited by guarantee), Community Benefit Societies or other not for profit organisations which are based in or operate for the benefit of residents in the area administered by Buckinghamshire Council.  This includes parish & town councils.
  • The groups must be formally constituted and operate exclusively for public benefit.

Criteria

• Applications are invited from projects promoting positive emotional wellbeing for children and young people in Buckinghamshire (excluding Milton Keynes) through out-of-school activities. Gains in positive emotional well-being should be an intentional outcome of the project, rather than a positive side-effect of another activity.
  • Schedule:
    • Funding decisions will be notified in late May 2023 and so the project/funding start date you select must be no earlier than 1st June 2023.
    • Projects should aim to start running before the end of 2023. They expect grants to be spent within 12 months and it is possible that continuation funding may be available after this first phase.

For more information, visit Young People’s Wellbeing Fund.