The Shared Ground Fund will provide organisations with the financial support they need to test new approaches and explore ways of addressing new challenges in this area of great change and uncertainty. It will also support organisations with an already strong track record of achievement with substantial help to achieve a greater impact.
Applicants must contribute to one or both aims of the Shared Ground Fund:
• Living well together – supporting work for the benefit of young people which helps communities experiencing high levels of migration become stronger and more connected
• Staying safe – ensuring that young migrants in greatest need can get help and support
The Shared Ground Fund offers two kinds of grants to support organisations at different stages of development:
• Shared Ground ‘explore and test’ grants – each year around 10 grants will be made to help explore and test both new approaches and ways of addressing new issues (awards will be for a maximum of £60,000, usually for up to two years)
• Shared Ground ‘more and better’ grants – each year around 10 longer, larger grants will be made to help develop and embed more established activities (awards will be for between £100,000 and £400,000 for up to four years)
The Fund will support organisations to provide direct services and support to young people, and/or work that seeks to influence relevant policy or practice.
Applications are welcomed from not-for-profit organisations, of any size, working anywhere in the UK.
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation are particularly interested in funding:
• Partnership proposals, and other forms of collaboration (particularly cross sector), where this is a route to greater and lasting change
• Organisations whose primary focus is not migrant young people, but where there is an opportunity to increase positive benefits for migrant young people
• Work taking place outside London, particularly in areas experiencing high
levels of migration and areas to which refugees are dispersed
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation also want to see the grant contribute to improving the reach and impact of your work and strengthening your organisation for the future.
The More and Better stream is expected to open in Autumn 2015.
Applications to the Explore and Test stream of the fund can be submitted at any time.
For further information and to apply, visit: www.phf.org.uk/funds/shared-ground-fund/