Youth Futures Foundation is providing grants of up £75,000 per year for up to three years for voluntary and community sector organisations to co-develop and implement youth employment activities that are targeted at young people aged between 16 and 24 from minoritised ethnic communities who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET), or at risk of becoming NEET, across selected areas of London, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the West Midlands.
The Evidence into Action Grants Programme will support organisations across two key phases:
- Phase One (one year) will support organisations to develop, test, and pilot evidence-based approaches to youth unemployment.
- Phase Two (up to two years) will support the implementation of activities that have been developed during phase one.
Funding can be used for:
- Staffing costs associated with participating in Evidence into Action learning activities
- Staffing costs associated with participating in organisational development and capacity building support
- A contribution to the core costs of an organisation
- Delivery staff to support youth involvement and/or pilot activity during phase one
- Project delivery costs related to pilot activities with young people during phase one
- Delivery of existing youth employment activities that include on-the-job or off-the-job training and are delivered to the target group of young people (phase two only)
To be eligible, organisations must have an organisational income of between £50,000 and £2 million, be established for at least 12 months, and must already be working with young people who identify as one or more of the following: Black, Mixed Black, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, and/or Gypsy Roma Traveller heritage, and who are NEET or at risk of becoming NEET.
Deadline: 9 September 2024