Grants database

Forces Children Scotland (formerly Royal Caledonian Education Trust), is a Scottish charity supporting children and young people whose parents are in, or veterans of, the Armed Forces. This grant supports ​‘Listen Up!’, a new co-produced campaign designed to raise awareness about the challenges faced by armed forces children and young people. Through this work, Forces Children Scotland hope to bring about greater public recognition of this group of young people, leading to changes in public policy and practice.

Creative Youth Network (CYN) works across four open access youth centres in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North East Somerset. They build relationships with young people from all backgrounds to help them reach their own potential and live fulfilling lives. This grant supports CYN to develop and scale the impact of ​‘We the 33%’, their flagship youth voice programme. In this phase of the programme, CYN will aim to increase the number of young people supported, enhance evaluation and share their learning more widely.

Young Asian Voices (YAV) is a charity and youth community project based in Sunderland. They support children and young people up to the age of 25, the majority of whom identify as Black, Asian or minoritised. They create empowering opportunities through training, education, work placements, health and sports activities, youth sessions and volunteering. This grant provides core support for the YAV manager who will oversee operational activities, strategic planning and future development.

The Vulcan Boxing Club uses education, boxing, health and fitness classes to empower young people aged 14–25 years old to make the best of their skills, abilities and talents whilst facing the most challenging transitions. This grant provides support to underpin the organisation’s leadership and governance, and to roll out city-wide pre-apprentice training, industry-based apprenticeships and pathways to long term employment.

The Junction Foundation supports children, young people and families in Redcar and the Tees Valley. They provide social activities, education, information, employment readiness programmes, youth work, and mental health and wellbeing support. This grant supports the recruitment of a strategic lead for the Junction’s Youth and Participation Work, who will develop the organisation’s young people strategic decision-making group. This new post will ensure greater stability of this core work, increase sustainability and better articulate the Junction’s impact.

The Baca charity provides holistic services for young asylum seekers who have been separated from their families. This grant supports Baca’s expansion of services to the East of England through two housing units in Cambridgeshire. They will provide a support package for young asylum seekers and victims of trafficking aged 16–19 arriving into the county.

The Anne Frank Trust is a nationwide youth education charity that aims for a society free from all forms of prejudice and discrimination. This grant supports the recruitment of an Assistant Director to the Trust’s leadership team who will be responsible for launching the Youth Empowerment Programme.

Pure Insight works intensively with young care leavers aged 16–28, providing both practical and emotional support. This grant supports the capacity of the senior leadership team to build greater sustainability in Pure Insight’s projects and services, and generate new sources of income through a consultancy and training offer. This work underpins priority plans to establish services in Salford and build relationships with local authority partners across Greater Manchester.

Positive View Foundation uses photography and film to affect transformational change in the lives of 16–25-year-olds who live on the poorest estates and wards in Westminster, Lambeth and the City and most recently in South East Kent. This grant supports Positive View to deliver planned strategic expansion into Dover, Folkstone and Hythe, and to strengthen existing London-based programmes. The Kent pilot will be embedded and expanded to target areas in North Kent, furthering the organisation’s reach and impact.

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.