Recent Grants
Recent Grants awarded
Grants awarded since November 2012
Canopy Housing Project - Community Skills for Homes
£100,000 over 3 years
Building the capacity and potential reach of a volunteering and community-based social housing renovation programme, which provides disadvantaged individuals with skills, supports them towards employment, and benefits local communities
Chance for Change - Rites of Passage
£120,000 over 3 years
This new project is targeted at disadvantaged 16-25 year olds who have already engaged in personal development programmes. It is focused on enabling these young people to further develop their skills to enable their transition to independent adulthood. Through a link up with the YHA, the project makes use of self development through outdoor adventure, and also uses community engagement projects.
Coram Childrens Legal Centre Ltd - The Migrant Children's Project
£120,000 over 4 year
The Migrant Children's Project promotes the rights of migrant, asylum-seeking and refugee children and young people and works to ensure that they receive the protection and support they need.
Iceni - Breaking the Cycle
£100,000 over 2 years
A project working with young parents with addiction problems to reduce the number of children removed into local authority care
Youth Access - GP Health Champions for Young People
£75,000 over 3 years
Working in 10 sites to improve the way that GPs work with local voluntary sector organisations to deliver health services to young people.
Grants awarded since July 2012
The Standing Committee for Youth Justice - Core funding
£37,000 over 2 years
To help SCYJ make transition to seperate charity, to allow it to employ a dedicated worker, and to begin to generate income from its membership.
Venture Scotland - The Journey
£149,999 over 3 years
To continue and develop "The Journey", a 12 month programme of personal development and volunteering for vulnerable young people.
Leave to Remain
£100,000 over 12 months
Support for pre-production and production of feature length film about the lives of young unaccompanied asylum seekers, co funded with Oak Foundation.
West of Scotland Regional Equality Council - Roma Youth Project (renewal)
£63,000 over 12 months
(Scotland: Glasgow) To enable the applicant to build on the relationships it has formed with the very hard-to-reach Roma community in Glasgow's Govanhill and support young Roma to access leisure and educational opportunities.
Public Achievement - Beyond the Margins - Policing with Communities
£148,000 over 2 years
Pilot working across communities in North Belfast, bringing together young people with police services.
Citizenship Foundation - InterAct Programme (continuation)
£150,000 over 3 years
To develop the applicant's successful InterAct programme, which brings together groups of RAS and 'local' young people on joint social action projects. The next phase wil focus on 'mainstreaming' the project in two national partners, Prince's Trust (Fairbridge Programme) and Refugee Action.
Freedom from Torture - Supporting children, young people and families affected by torture
£150,000 over 3 years
(North East) Children, Young People and Families (CYPF) Development Worker to provide training and supervision to other organisations working with torture survivors in the North East and to provide counselling and case work directly to a small number of complex cases.
Grants awarded since May 2012
The Men's Room - Development and Expansion of The Men's Room's Services
£134,228 over 3 years
Development of work to support young male sex workers and young male offenders with multiple and complex needs to progress out of lives of chaos and into education, employment and training.
MAC-UK - Testing the Integrate Model
£150,000 over 2 years
Having articulated its model of "street therapy" for young people involved in highly antisocial and gang behaviour, MAC-UK now seeks to test it in new settings, with new groups of deprived young people.
Body & Soul - The Garden - Income Generation
£80,000 over 2 years
Building on three years ground work, Body & Soul is seeking to generate unrestricted income through delivering youth-led training and building hire.
Institute of Criminal Policy Research - Is there room for ex-offenders in the 'Big Society'?
£59,872 over 18 months
Research to explore the scope for, and implications of, volunteering by young ex-prisones, with a view to creating practical, evidence-based guidance and policy recommendations.
Reclaim - Further funding
£150,000 over 2 years
Funding for two years to consolidate position Reclaim has reached and develop its youth enterprise activities to provide progression routes for programme 'graduates'.
Grants awarded since February 2012
Brook - Creating a youth led Brook through leadership and opportunity
£138,792 over 2.5 years
To increase disadvantaged young people's active involvement at all levels of Brook, enabling them to influence decisions that affect them, promote, and secure young people's sexual and reproductive rights.
Clore Social Leadership Programme
£105,000 over 2 years
The funding is for up to three specialist, Paul Hamlyn-funded Clore Social Fellowships, one per year in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
198 Contemporary Arts and Learning - Europe Meets the Roma
£45,159 over 2 years
Art project exploring identity, personal histories and cultural heritage of Roman and English Romany in order to increase integration between themselves and their communities.
Oval House - Future Stages
£150,000 over 3 years
Participatory, early intervention, youth arts project, supporting primary-age children at risk of exclusion and offending, and workforce development around participatory arts with challenging young people.
Move on - Care Leavers Peer Mentoring Service
£88,808 over 3 years
To pilot peer mentoring support for young care leavers in Glasgow, improving their chances of making a successful transition, and preventing homelessness among them and their mentors.
Grants awarded since November 2011
Centrepoint - Centrepoint Youth Educators' Project in the North East
£149,399 over 3 years
North East
Centrepoint Youth Educators' Project in the North East
A peer educator's project, based in Northumbria, which trains and supports ex-offenders and young parents to deliver homelessness prevention programmes to vulnerable young people in schools and custody
Changing Tunes - Music and Rehabilitation rolling out the Model
£226,707 over 3 years
UK Wide
Supporting rehabilitation and resettlement of young offenders, this application seeks to expand capacity and broaden the reach of the work through development of three regional franchises
Crisis UK - Skylight Oxford
£200,000 over 3 years
South East
Three years funding for delivery of support services for young homeless in innovative multi function new building, shared with arts organisations and social enterprise cafe
Dance United - Core Funding
£160,000 over 2 years
England (5+ regions)
Core funding for three years to enable Dance United's Artistic Management Team to continue to develop and deliver its award winning programmes for disadvantaged and hard to reach young people
LGBT Youth Scotland - LGBT young people's participation and policy project
£150,000 over 3 years
Scotland
LGBT young people's participation and policy project
Co funded with Scottish Government, a national youth council with a participation and policy influencing element
Revolving Doors Agency - Service user involvement
£190,000 over 3 years
England (5+ regions)
Continuation support for ongoing development of RDA's 'National Service User Forum' and 'Young People's Forum' to secure and strengthen the ability of service users and ex-offenders to influence policy. Building on the national forum work to pilot local service user forums
Tender Education and Arts - Core funding
£129,302 over 3 years
UK Wide
Expanding the reach of Tender's violence-prevention models nationwide, using a franchise model to develop self-sustaining projects with schools, youth centres and local authorities
Voice UK -Safer, Wiser, Respected
£110,000 over 2 years
England Multi-region (2-4 regions)
Programme of youth led work to support learning disabled young people avoid, address, and improve the work of agencies dealing with abuse, violence and crime against them
Grants Awarded since September 2011
Interest Link Borders - Children's and Young Peoples' Service
£115,000 over 3 years
Scotland
A 3 year volunteer befriending service for 98 children and young people aged 8-25 who have learning disabilities and live in the Scottish Borders
Grants Awarded since March 2011
The Runnymede Trust - Core Funding
£65,000 over 6 months
UK Wide
Support for development of fundraising campaign. Support to improve the impact on policy and practice of research and evidence on racial injustice and enable the organisation to adapt to the new context of reduced government funding. Transition to a new model of support that engages beneficiaries of Runnymede's work and corporate donors
Grants awarded since July 2011
Clean Break Theatre Company Ltd - Positive Pathways Education Programme
£150,000 over 3 years
England wide
Gender specific, holistic support, skills development, accredited training and progression into employment for girls and women offenders and those at risk of offending, onsite and in prisons
Council for Dependency Problems - 'Your Journey'
£70,072 over 3 years
Yorkshire & Humber
A Community Engagement Project for New Migrant Communities
The provision of advice, advocacy, support and training for newly arrived migrant individuals and their communities to improve wellbeing, reduce stigma and improve access to mainstream services, including a pilot mentoring scheme for migrant individuals providing outreach support to service users with substance related problems and their families
New Economics Foundation - Co-producing Outcomes for Young People: a Blueprint for Public Services
£149,000 over 3 years
England (5+ regions)
To develop a blueprint for transforming services for young people through co-production and outcomes-focused commissioning, and to work with commissioners and providers to encourage take-up
Refugee Youth - Action to Bring About Change
£124,901 over 3 years
London
Young refugees will be supported to explore the issues that affect them and take action to make change by engaging creatively with service providers, policy makers & public
User Voice - Developing workforce capacity
£145,821 over 2 years England (5+ regions)
Provision of a staff training and support programme to better develop the capacity of an ex-offender workforce to work in professionally and personally challenging contexts and effectively deliver organisational ambitions; creation of a further programme manager post
Grants awarded since June 2011
Legal Services Agency - Young Person's Project, Women and Children's Department
£181,100 over 3 years
Scotland
Provision of a specialist legal service to young women and children with an unsettled immigration/asylum position who have suffered gender and child based persecution
Prisoners' Education Trust - Learning Matters Phase Two
£105,000 over 3 years
UK wide
Core funding to enable PET to extend its Learning Matters project into a second three year phase. Through the formation of a Prisoner Learning Alliance, PET will advocate for improved provision for prisoner learning
Red Rose Chain - TicTac (Theatre Is Chance To Activate Change)
£150,000 over 3 years
East of England
The creation of a permanent acting company for recovering Class A drug addicts, as part of a wider package of support and treatment, providing a vehicle of education and change for individuals, organizations and policy
Grants awarded since March 2011
The Action Group - BEMAS Transitions Service
Scotland
£193,930 over 3 years
Development of support service for BME learning disabled in Edinburgh and the Lothians - to provide transition support for age 16+
Bolton Lads and Girls Club - Transitions
£150,000 over 3 years
North West
Further development of successful Pathways2Success pilot, focused on earlier intervention with NEET young people
Clinks - Core funding
£300,000 over 3 years
UK Wide
Funding towards core costs to enable ongoing support, advocacy for and engagement of the third sector working in criminal justice
The Koestler Trust - Creative Young Offenders
£180,000 over 3 years
.UK Wide
Expansion of 'Arts Mentoring for Released Prisoners' project and UK-wide roll out of the Arts Award Scheme's exhibitions, curated by marginalised young people
OnSide North West - Young Volunteers and Inclusive Positive Activities: Bridging the Gap
£62,810 over 2 years
North West
Capacity building of volunteers to support participation of disabled young people in new wave of NW youth facilities
YouthNet - TheSite.org Leaders Project
£147,441 over 2 years
UK Wide
Support to develop user engagement in re-development of their online service provision.
