The National Lottery Community Fund’s #iwill Fund 2025 is for projects that help young people in England take part in place-based youth social action. By place-based youth social action, we mean young people playing an active role in addressing the issues of a specific place or area that matter most to local people.
The fund is particularly interested in projects that include young people from low-income communities.
In your application, you must show how your project:
- Creates place-based youth social action opportunities for young people
- Will help young people get involved in social action. This should be throughout their life, even after the funding ends.
- Will reach young people who have not taken part in regular social action activities
- Will continue, even after the funding ends
- Involves the voices of young people. They should also be a part of your organisation.
The fund expects projects to support young people aged up to 20, or up to 25 for those with additional support needs.
This fund can fund other funders or organisations that run services for young people. If you're a funder, we can delegate authority to you to fund organisations that run these services. This means you can decide which organisations to fund.
It is expected that you will match the funding. The minimum amount that can be match funded is £200,000.
The fund may also be able to consider in-kind contributions to help meet this amount. These could include non-cash contributions that have a monetary value, such as goods, services, equipment or use of facilities.
Total available: £3million with 4 - 6 projects expected to be funded.
To apply complete the initial expression of interest to be invited to the next stage.