Grants database

The National Youth Agency (NYA) aims to transform the lives of young people through youth work. They drive innovative projects that consider new and different approaches and partnerships to ensure young people get access to timely, relevant and impactful opportunities, rooted in co-creation and youth voice. This grant provides core support for NYA, enabling the organisation to collaborate across the youth sector as part of the Youth Sector Infrastructure Collective.

Link to Change works across Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire supporting children and young people affected by sexual violence, exploitation, abuse, modern day slavery and trafficking. This grant supports Link to Change to respond to increased demand through the provision of more preventative services and targeted support for diverse groups of young people. It also underpins the organisation’s strategic development, enhancing their internal capacity to allow for increased fundraising activities and sharing of learning through existing partner networks.

Include Youth is a rights based charity in Northern Ireland. They work with young people with experience of care from communities with high levels of socio-economic deprivation, or whose rights are not being met. This grant supports Include Youth’s policy, advocacy and communications work. Specifically, Include Youth will provide increased guidance, support and training to external organisations, and continue to champion young people’s rights and voices in response to ongoing challenges, including the pandemic and Brexit.

Hot Chocolate Trust is a large youth centre in central Dundee. They offer open access drop-in sessions, tailored one-to-one and group support, and programmes focused around the arts and youth leadership. This grant supports Hot Chocolate Trust to increase the breadth and depth of their mental health, homelessness and creative arts offers. They also aim to influence the wider youth sector through the development and promotion of their outcomes database.

PHF funding will support PRCBC to: • Undertake complex casework for young people that supports and leads to strategic litigation in the high courts • Monitor unlawful or poor practice and pursue appropriate remedies including by higher court litigation and wider policy work • Build and support external capacity, awareness and relevant expertise on British nationality law and best practice among lawyers and other professionals working with young people, including local authorities • Work with parliamentarians and Home Office officials to raise awareness and understanding and influence changes to law, policy and practice

Increase opportunity and access for young artists in Wales.

The School of Comedy is a collaborative, whole-school approach to supporting mental wellbeing, which aims to embed the use of comedy and creativity in the daily life of a Leicestershire primary school, to respond to the mental health challenges facing young people which have been exacerbated by the pandemic. It supports pupils to build resilience, confidence and wellbeing through the use of improvisation and comedy.

Artlink Hull works with artists from under-represented backgrounds, deaf & disabled community participants, and children & young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. They provide professional opportunities and development, and participatory activities for these constituencies respectively, and wish to explore new ways of hybrid working to meet their needs.

Yuva Vikas Mandal is a non-government organisation that aims to empower and support young people, women and children to access rights, entitlements and justice. Their primary aim is to promote youth participation in development and governance processes for realising their rights and entitlements by ensuring transparency and government accountability. This grant supports the organisation to deliver the third phase of their project underpinning Dignity Centres in 20 villages in Sehore, Madhya Pradesh. The Dignity Centres will continue to support children who have experienced historic disadvantage to pursue alternative occupations and livelihoods.

Building Resilient Societies: Enhancing disaster preparedness capacity of grassroots organisations

Vidarbha Nature Conservation Society (VNCS) supports the community management of resources for ecological security and sustainable livelihoods. This grant supports VNCS to deliver the third phase of their project to improve natural resource-based sustainable livelihoods in ten villages. In this phase VNCS will continue working with local institutions to build the capacity of local leaders.

Development of Paharia Community in Littipara block