Deadline: 12-Feb-21
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Office for Civil Society has announced a call for applications for the Youth Covid-19 Support Fund to support grassroots youth clubs, uniformed youth groups, and national youth and umbrella organisations, to help to mitigate the impact of lost income during the winter period due to the coronavirus pandemic, and ensure services providing vital support can remain open.
This fund will focus on enabling the struggling, but most impactful, youth organisations to continue operating, where they may have scaled back service provision or temporarily closed due to reductions in their income following Covid-19. This would ensure that young people, especially those who are disadvantaged, have uninterrupted access to services, and could prevent local grassroots organisations from permanent closure.
The £16.5 million Youth Covid-19 Support Fund, which was announced in November 2020, is open to grassroots youth clubs, uniformed youth groups, and national youth and umbrella organisations, to help to mitigate the impact of lost income during the winter period due to the coronavirus pandemic, and ensure services providing vital support can remain open.
The funding has been allocated from the £750 million charities support package and £1.7m of the £16.5m has been allocated to vital youth work qualifications and training.
Eligibility Criteria
- Focused on the struggling, but most impactful, youth organisations, it’s open to grassroots youth clubs, uniformed youth groups, and national youth and umbrella organisations.
- This funding can support eligible organisations in England only.
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Local youth clubs or uniformed youth groups.
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National youth and umbrella organisations.
For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-the-youth-covid-19-support-fund