Grants database

UK Youth is a leading national charity, committed to providing access to appropriate, high quality services in every community. They provide infrastructure support to an extensive network of regional youth organisations and umbrella groups across England so that young people are empowered to build bright futures, regardless of their background or circumstances. This grant provides core support for UK Youth, enabling the organisation to engage in collaboration focused on delivering infrastructure functions across the youth sector as part of the Youth Sector Infrastructure Collective.

The Lucy Faithfull Foundation is the only UK-wide charity dedicated solely to preventing child sexual abuse and exploitation. The Foundation works with offenders and those at risk of perpetrating child sexual abuse, including adults, young people, and their families, through a range of programmes and interventions. This grant supports the roll out of a training programme for professionals across the UK based on the Inform Young People model. The programme will reach up to 180 new practitioners, extending reach to young people beyond the organisation’s own direct work, and provide learning to inform future advocacy and policy work.

The Foyer Federation is a youth housing membership organisation that supports a network of Foyers who provide accommodation, learning and work opportunities for and with young people who have experienced homelessness. They create and support positive approaches to working with young people to enable them to make the journey to adulthood. This grant supports the development of a new Home for Advantaged Thinking strategy which will strengthen the capacity, quality and impact of youth supported housing provision. The Foyer Federation will communicate and promote their vision of Advantaged Thinking through a network that connects doers and thinkers.

The Change Foundation works with young people in London, Newcastle and Birmingham with a disability or experiencing mental health issues, or who are involved in serious crime and violence. It offers targeted long-term interventions using sport, personalised mentoring and tailored support, delivered by staff with lived experience. This grant supports the growth of the organisation’s Inclusive Employer Network, engaging at least 18 national employers. It will support them to promote inclusion and diversity in the workplace, and to create employment opportunities for young people facing barriers to work.

The Centre for Youth Impact is a community of UK organisations that work together to progress thinking and practice around impact measurement in youth work and services for young people. This grant provides core support to the Centre, enabling the organisation to engage in collaboration focused on delivering infrastructure functions across the youth sector as part of the Youth Sector Infrastructure Collective.

Senghenydd Youth Drop-In Centre (SYDIC) is a youth charity based in in a former mining community in the South Wales Valleys. The organisation delivers their work via a frontline and holistic youth centre approach. This grant supports SYDIC’s transition to a new staffing and governance structure that is more youth led at the same time as investing in the improved quality and sustainability of their work.

The Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) supports children and young people who are blind or partially sighted to have the best possible start in life. This grant supports the growth of RSBC’s network of partners across local grassroots organisations and youth networks to become more accessible and inclusive for blind and partially sighted young people. This will increase reach into new locations and significantly grow the number of young people they engage.

Newtownabbey Arts and Cultural Network is a small youth and community charity working in the Rathcoole estate in Belfast, using creative and digital arts. This grant supports the organisation to increase their fundraising capacity along with the quality and breadth of their offer for young people. A key priority will be supporting more young people to take up leadership roles while the senior team will focus on strategic networking and longer-term sustainability.

Kinetic Youth is a social enterprise delivering youth work services in Yorkshire, the East Midlands and the South East. They work with young people to develop their skills, knowledge and experiences and support them to access services that can improve their lives. This grant supports the recruitment of a Business Manager to provide additional expertise and capacity, establish governance and infrastructure, develop and implement a diversified funding strategy, and invest further in youth participation practice. As a result, Kinetic Youth will have a more sustainable offer and be better placed to inform Youth Justice Policy.

Greater Manchester Youth Network (GMYN) engages young people across Greater Manchester in social action, volunteering and leadership. The network prioritises youth participation and aims to embed their youth leadership programmes into all aspects of the organisation. This grant supports the role of Youth Participation Lead which will enable GMYN to make youth voice and leadership even more central to their work and increase capacity to support young people to influence others.

Fat Macy’s Foundation works with young people in London, supporting them to get out of homelessness and into their own homes via catering employment. This grant supports Fat Macy’s to utilise a gifted space in Shoreditch to create a new permanent Training Academy space. Through the space, the organisation will grow the number of trainees supported to around 190 a year through a minimum of 24 Training Academies.

CREATE Paisley aims to improve the mental health and emotional wellbeing of young people aged 12–21 in Paisley and surrounding areas. It offers a range of arts-based activities. This grant supports the role of a new Youth Work Manager which will add capacity and oversee the youth work team as CREATE Paisley expands into a new hub in Linwood. The role will also lead on the delivery of a new evaluation plan and capture learning to inform future replication.