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The Shackleton Foundation
Created: 03/02/2025News/Events Category: Funding and Finance
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The Shackleton Foundation provides seed funding to inspirational leaders and early-stage social enterprises with the potential to make a real difference to the lives of disadvantaged young people.
They provide seed funding and support to enable aspiring leaders and social entrepreneurs to establish their own ventures to help the disadvantaged and socially marginalised in society. They look for long-lasting, far-reaching projects with the potential to provide solutions to intractable social problems.
Eligible ideas must:
- Be innovative and fresh
- Fulfil a clear need and demand
- Be in the first year of development
- Have a real social impact
- Have well-defined outputs and goals
- Have the potential for real growth and sustainability
- The beneficiaries of the work must be young people predominantly based in the UK
Who can apply?
The Shackleton Foundation provides seed funding to inspirational leaders and early stage social entrepreneurs with the potential to make a real difference to the lives of disadvantaged young people.
How to apply
All applicants must submit a completed application form, available on the Foundation website. There is a new application form for 2025, no applications on the old form will be accepted
The closing date for applications is 5.00pm on Monday 17 February 2025.
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