Youth Futures Foundation – Evidence into Action

Aims/priorities: The aim of this programme is to:

• Improve knowledge mobilisation across the youth employment sector.
• Support practitioners, employers, funders, and commissioners in understanding and enacting evidence-informed change in how they do things.
• Provide an opportunity for delivery organisations to explore and implement what the Foundation’s  Youth Employment toolkit says about on-the-job and off-the-job training to enable young people to thrive. 

Who can apply? To apply, groups must:

• Already work with young people in selected local authorities within London, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and/or West Midlands.
• Work with young people aged 16 to 24 who identify as one or more of the following: Black, Mixed Black, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, and/or Gypsy Roma Traveller heritage, and who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET) or at risk of becoming NEET.
• Have an organisational income of between £50,000 and £2 million.
• Have been legally established for a minimum of 12 months. 

Grant amount: Ten grants of up to £75,000 per year for up to three years are available. 

Application process: Successful groups will be shortlisted in September/October 2024 to meet with the Youth Futures Foundation staff to present their application in more detail, discuss its potential, and provide any required policies.

Final decisions will be communicated in November 2024.

Guidance notes and an online application portal are available from the Youth Futures Foundation website. 

Deadline: Monday 9 September 2024.

Contact information: Email: grants@youthfuturesfoundation.org

Website: Evidence into Action - Youth Futures Foundation.