Grants database

The Centre for Youth Impact is a community of organisations committed to working together to progress thinking and practice around impact measurement in youth work and services for young people. A grant will support a core team to progress a collective impact initiative for organisations working with young people. The aim is to bring a group of organisations together to explore how they may pursue transformative change for young people.

Considered one of the leading mentoring organisations in Scotland, Move On particularly helps people affected by homelessness and vulnerable young people to grow in confidence; secure and sustain accommodation; build positive social networks; develop employability skills and access and sustain jobs, training and education. Move On’s growth plans include diversifying income and developing their offer to include establishing a Centre of Excellency for Mentoring. They aim to increase the number of young people they work with, develop new approaches to meet their needs and increase organisational resilience.

The Mix is the UK’s leading digital charity providing holistic multi-channel support for young people’s well-being using digital and mobile channels. As experts in digital engagement and provision for young people, they aim to be the ​‘go to’ platform for all young people, reaching 3 million by 2018/19. This funding will support their growth plans.

Fixers have a clear impact framework and ambition for change: to position their approach at the heart of society; to encourage people and organisations to value voice such that it brings people together for social good, encourages people to share their stories and helps to establish an architecture for people to listen to them, so that conversations start that lay the foundations for a new approach to social change.

Wac Arts is an arts and media charity based in North London. It provides a range of activities and professional training in the arts for young people facing various challenges. This grant will fund a contribution to a new Director of Finance and Commercial Operations salary and training for staff. It will enable Wac to focus on income generation and growing sustainability. It will also support dissemination of its learning and expertise in the use of interactive assistive technology.

A creative youth engagement agency, Beatfreeks offers peer-led programmes, activities and platforms which empower young people as leaders, creators, decision makers and mentors. Beatfreeks would like to grow the quality and reach of its programmes to support an additional 70 young leaders over the next two years. It will employ an Operations Manager, who will lead on programme development, review evaluation and impact measurement processes, and investigate a social licensing model.

Partnership for Young London is the regional youth policy unit for London. Having developed the ​‘Vision for Young Londoners’ agenda, the Partnership would like to increase its capacity to drive the identified priorities forward. It will support the coalition logistically, and invest in strategy, evaluation and wider dissemination. It hopes to increase the profile, impact and reach of both the vision and the network of coalition members.

Youth at Risk is a national charity working to create lasting transformation for young people and the adults and communities around them through a rigorous, strengths-based coaching model. This funding will support the delivery of community based programmes and training to professionals to transform individuals, organisations and systems.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) will carry out a community research programme aimed at gaining a deep understanding of the dynamics that drive local concerns about migration in these areas and which factors enable or block the process of integration for migrants. IPPR will work with local agencies to map key assets within the local community that can be mobilised by local policymakers, and will co-host a series of workshops with residents to develop initiatives that have local support.

COMPAS will work with five UK cities to achieve a step-change in their approach to migrant integration in their area. Drawing on learning from innovative approaches in US cities, the project will include assessment of the scope for subsequent roll-out nationwide and the development of an online toolkit for UK cities wishing to develop integration strategies of their own.

Voluntary Action Sheffield supports voluntary communities and organisations in Sheffield at all stages of development. VAS aims to test whether a city-led cohesion strategy and cross-sector partnership can influence policy across a range of statutory and non-statutory agencies, helping them to incorporate a welcoming approach to migration in Sheffield, as well as evaluate the impact of their approach.

Community Music Wales are Wales’s leading music charity with a mission to empower disadvantaged groups and individuals through participation in music-making. This grant will support Community Music Wales to deliver a four year professional development and training programme for community music practitioners with the aim to enhance both the quality of practice and the amount of activity being offered to participants across Wales.