Application deadline: Rolling application cycle
The aims of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Youth Fund are:
The fund believes that services, systems, structures, processes and practice can support young people to thrive. They want young people to have their voices heard, and to have agency and autonomy to drive changes and improvements which transform their transitions to adulthood.
This fund achieves this by:
- Focusing on young people (14–25) who experience systemic inequity. For these young people, transitions are harder due to the way society, systems and structures operate. This often compounds the inequity they experience.
- Driving change in systems, processes, structures and practice to create more equitable, inclusive, asset based environments and experiences for young people.
- Tackling the root causes of inequity and injustice which creates barriers and challenges for young people as they transition to adulthood.
- Centering young people voice, insight and power. Recognizing that many young people are marginalized or excluded, their experiences hidden or less well known and their voices often erased or ignored.
The Youth Fund is designed to be a strategic investment in your organisation, so only fund:
- for the full three years and at the amount appropriate to your plans to drive change;
- organisations where at least 50% of the organisation’s focus is on work with and for 14–25 year olds; and
- not-for-profit organisations which can be charities, community organisations, social enterprises and not-for-profit companies with a turnover over £30,000 and under £3.5 million. Non-charities must clearly declare how funding is for charitable purposes and have an asset lock in place.
For work delivered through partnerships, there must be a lead partner who can receive funds and the partnership must already be active. Funding provided:
- up to £50,000 per year for three years (max grant £150,000)
- to cover core operating costs (salaries, organisation and delivery costs); and
- to grow the impact of what you already do – not to fund new or untested approaches, projects or finite pieces of work
Visit the Paul Hamlyn website by following this link https://www.phf.org.uk/funding/youth-fund
