Grants database

The Centre for Youth Impact is a community of UK organisations that work together to progress thinking and practice around impact measurement in youth work and services for young people. This grant provides core support to the Centre, enabling the organisation to engage in collaboration focused on delivering infrastructure functions across the youth sector as part of the Youth Sector Infrastructure Collective.

Senghenydd Youth Drop-In Centre (SYDIC) is a youth charity based in in a former mining community in the South Wales Valleys. The organisation delivers their work via a frontline and holistic youth centre approach. This grant supports SYDIC’s transition to a new staffing and governance structure that is more youth led at the same time as investing in the improved quality and sustainability of their work.

The Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) supports children and young people who are blind or partially sighted to have the best possible start in life. This grant supports the growth of RSBC’s network of partners across local grassroots organisations and youth networks to become more accessible and inclusive for blind and partially sighted young people. This will increase reach into new locations and significantly grow the number of young people they engage.

Newtownabbey Arts and Cultural Network is a small youth and community charity working in the Rathcoole estate in Belfast, using creative and digital arts. This grant supports the organisation to increase their fundraising capacity along with the quality and breadth of their offer for young people. A key priority will be supporting more young people to take up leadership roles while the senior team will focus on strategic networking and longer-term sustainability.

Kinetic Youth is a social enterprise delivering youth work services in Yorkshire, the East Midlands and the South East. They work with young people to develop their skills, knowledge and experiences and support them to access services that can improve their lives. This grant supports the recruitment of a Business Manager to provide additional expertise and capacity, establish governance and infrastructure, develop and implement a diversified funding strategy, and invest further in youth participation practice. As a result, Kinetic Youth will have a more sustainable offer and be better placed to inform Youth Justice Policy.

Greater Manchester Youth Network (GMYN) engages young people across Greater Manchester in social action, volunteering and leadership. The network prioritises youth participation and aims to embed their youth leadership programmes into all aspects of the organisation. This grant supports the role of Youth Participation Lead which will enable GMYN to make youth voice and leadership even more central to their work and increase capacity to support young people to influence others.

Fat Macy’s Foundation works with young people in London, supporting them to get out of homelessness and into their own homes via catering employment. This grant supports Fat Macy’s to utilise a gifted space in Shoreditch to create a new permanent Training Academy space. Through the space, the organisation will grow the number of trainees supported to around 190 a year through a minimum of 24 Training Academies.

CREATE Paisley aims to improve the mental health and emotional wellbeing of young people aged 12–21 in Paisley and surrounding areas. It offers a range of arts-based activities. This grant supports the role of a new Youth Work Manager which will add capacity and oversee the youth work team as CREATE Paisley expands into a new hub in Linwood. The role will also lead on the delivery of a new evaluation plan and capture learning to inform future replication.

Beatfreeks is a youth led company in Birmingham that supports young people to develop skills, confidence and networks through creative activities and events. They also offer programmes focused on social impact and entrepreneurialism. This grant provides core support to Youth Voice, Insight and Power, a programme to ensure that young peoples’ insight is gathered and shared via the National Youth Trends 2021–2024 survey.

Young Scot is the national youth information and citizenship agency for young people in Scotland aged 11–26. They provide young people with information, ideas and opportunities, delivering targeted support and engagement programmes, infrastructure support and strategic leadership in areas such as collaboration and systems change.

The Ubele Initiative (Ubele) derives its name from the Swahili word meaning ​‘The Future’. They are an African Diaspora-led intergenerational social enterprise founded in 2014, with the purpose of helping to build more sustainable communities across the UK. Ubele supports a wide range of Black and minoritised communities, community-based organisations and groups with their community assets (people and physical spaces), through social action, community enterprise development and next-generation leadership initiatives.

Founded in 1888, NSEAD is the trade union, learned society and professional body for art, craft and design educators across the UK. They work to protect and promote the subject and the professional interests of those engaged in it, led by and accountable to its members who represent art, craft and design teachers, lecturers, museum and gallery educators, institutions and organisations.