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Paul Hamlyn Foundation Youth Fund
Created: 11/10/2024
News/Events Category: Funding and Finance
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The Youth Fund supports organisations that's main purpose is about helping young people (aged 14-25) in the most precarious positions, where making the transition to adult independence is most challenging. It supports organisations which work with young people experiencing disadvantage in a way that recognises and builds on their strengths and potential.
The fund provides core funding for organisations that:
- Seek to sustain, prepare to grow, or grow impact with and for young people
- Put young people at the centre in terms of power, voice and agency – as part of an asset-based approach, starting with recognising and building on young people’s strengths and potential
- Aim to achieve wide impact for young people (for example, going beyond direct delivery and focusing on systemic or structural change).
- Are committed to continuous improvement in asset-based approaches to working with and for young people
- Support young people who are facing complex transitions, challenges and barriers to accessing support and opportunities. Particularly young people who are socially excluded or marginalised; whose experiences can be hidden or less well known; and whose voices are often erased or ignored
Funding available
The Youth Fund is designed to be a strategic investment in your organisation, so they only fund:
- For the full three years and at the amount appropriate to your plans to drive change
- Organisations where at least 50% of the organisation’s focus is on work with and for 14–25 year-olds
- Not-for-profit organisations which can be charities, community organisations, social enterprises and not-for-profit companies with a turnover over £30,000 and under £3.5 million. Non-charities must clearly declare how funding is for charitable purposes and have an asset lock in place.
For work delivered through partnerships, there must be a lead partner who can receive funds and the partnership must already be active.
They provide funding:
- Up to £50,000 per year for three years (max grant £150,000). They prefer to fund organisations at the maximum amount and term. They do not make grants of less than £30,000 per year
- To cover core operating costs (salaries, organisation and delivery costs)
- To grow the impact of what you already do. They are not looking to fund new or untested approaches, projects or finite pieces of work
Exclusions
- Newly registered organisations yet to produce independently audited/examined accounts
- Work that is considered a statutory responsibility
- Project-based activity or work with no scope for impact beyond the organisation’s immediate beneficiaries
- Service delivery that does not have a specific focus on wider change
- Research that does not demonstrate a direct link between findings and taking action towards change
- Work that is focused on young people receiving hospice or end of life care
- Work delivered by YMCAs unless it seeks to secure significant wider changes in housing provision and entitlements for young people
- Work that is focused exclusively on pathways to employment for young people or on pathways to further or higher education, often described as improving young people’s social mobility
How to apply
Click here to find out more and complete an online application.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, so there are no defined deadlines.
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