Funding of between £5,000 and £10,000 is intended to achieve the following:
- Reach children and young people who may be disadvantaged due to their physical or intellectual capacity, citizenship status, race, health and life expectancy, sexual orientation or previous criminal activity.
- Reach children and young people who fall between the gaps of high and low attainment and privilege, who are often left without access to opportunities and whose potential is frequently overlooked.
- Encourage organisations to be flexible and creative in their approach, to be bold and try innovative and untested ideas that have the potential to have meaningful impacts and bring young people into their leadership and decision making.
Registered charities, CICs and exempt charities are eligible to apply.
Preference will be given to smaller, local community-based organisations with income of up to £400,000 per year, with reserves between three to six months annual running costs and where the majority of beneficiaries are within the Greater London boundary.
Grants are mostly for project-based work, with a contribution to overheads.
The current funding priorities are:
Providing opportunities and encouragement for young people to access learning and employment:
Focus areas include working with those disengaged or excluded from compulsory education to achieve qualifications or training that supports their interests and employment aspirations, and groups where unemployment is demonstrably higher. Examples include refugees, those with disabilities, school avoiders and young people from traveller communities.
Empowering young people to lead the healthiest lives they can:
Focus activities include medium to long-term support to improve and protect their mental health through tailored and small-scale support that meets their individual needs as identified by the young people themselves.
- Engaging young people to feel empowered in their choices, to be able to act independently, and to have a voice:
- Projects which enable them to develop and demonstrate leadership skills with a practical application.
- Creative projects that enable them to speak out and express their views on key issues, that are presented to the decision-makers and communities they wish to influence.
Shaftesbury Young People's Trust will support campaigning organisations, those who act on behalf of communities without a voice or who support people to access the services they need, but which are not actively promoting the interests of any particular Political Party.
How to Apply:
The next deadline for applications is 27 September 2024 for the December 2024 funding round.
Full guidance and an application form can be found on the SYP Trust website.
It is recommended that groups initially call the SYP Trust for an informal discussion of their project and advice before they start work on their application.
Contact the SYP Trust for further information (details below).