Youth Endowment Fund awards £6.5m to help vulnerable young people through COVID-19

Wednesday, 22 July 2020 09:23

The Youth Endowment Fund has today announced that it has offered a total of £6.5m to 130 organisations across England and Wales as part of its COVID-19 grant round. The funding will help charities, social enterprises, local authorities and youth organisations to re-connect with young people at-risk of being drawn into violent crime and tackle any problems to emerge because of COVID-19. The Youth Endowment Fund was established in 2019 with a ten-year, £200m endowment...Request free trial

The Youth Endowment Fund has today announced that it has offered a total of £6.5m to 130 organisations across England and Wales as part of its COVID-19 grant round.

The funding will help charities, social enterprises, local authorities and youth organisations to re-connect with young people at-risk of being drawn into violent crime and tackle any problems to emerge because of COVID-19.

The Youth Endowment Fund was established in 2019 with a ten-year, £200m endowment from the Home Office to find what works to prevent children and young people from being drawn into violent crime. It funds and evaluates projects across England and Wales and builds support with others to put effective approaches into practice.

Grants from the Youth Endowment Fund will fund a range of new programmes and activities across England and Wales. The work will focus on intervening early and supporting vulnerable young people, aged between 10 and 14-years old. The newly funded activities include the delivery of online and virtual programmes, targeted work in schools and detached youth work.

The Youth Endowment Fund has offered 130 organisations grants ranging in size from £25,000 to £192,000; the average grant offered was £50,000. Of the organisations to be granted funding, 84% (109) are charities or social enterprises and 15% (19) are BAME-led.

One charity that will be benefit is West Rhyl Young People's Project. It has been awarded £79,000 to expand its youth work across Rhyl, Denbighshire and North Wales.

Hannah Rowan, Project Manager at West Rhyl Young People's Project, said: “Social distancing and stay-at-home measures have made it even more difficult to identify when a young person is at-risk of being drawn into crime or exploited. Funding from the Youth Endowment Fund will help us reach vulnerable young people who may be hidden from sight or feel uncomfortable seeking help through traditional channels.”

To view the full list of recipients, please see notes or click here.

Alongside the funding, grant recipients will also benefit from the chance to learn from one another. This support will be delivered by a consortium of Dartington Service Design Lab, Research in Practice, The Centre for Youth Impact and University of Plymouth. Working with its grantees and learning partners, the Youth Endowment Fund aims to build and share knowledge of the best ways to support vulnerable young people during a time of social distancing.

The Youth Endowment Fund’s COVID-19 grant round was open for four-weeks from the 6th May 2020. In that time over 1,000 applications were made, requesting funding in excess of £54m.

Jon Yates, Executive Director at Youth Endowment Fund, said: “It has been too easy to forget vulnerable young people during this crisis. The pandemic has removed much of the critical support that many of them rely upon – from teachers to youth workers. This funding will help us find the best way to reach and support these young people when they most need it.”

Hamid Patel CBE, Chief Executive of Star Academies and Chair of Grants and Evaluation Committee at Youth Endowment Fund, said: “The challenges and hardships that many of our most vulnerable young people face every day have been exacerbated by COVID-19. The projects we are funding are working innovatively to help them overcome their difficult circumstances and make the most of the opportunities afforded to them. We are delighted to support them in this endeavour.”

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NOTES TO EDITORS

For media interviews, please contact: Matt Shaw, Senior Communications Manager at the Youth Endowment Fund on: matthew.shaw@youthendowmentfund.org.uk ; 07414 405031.

Full list of organisations offered funding from the Youth Endowment Fund’s COVID-19 grant round:

	Organisation	Funding offered
1	Abergele Community Action Ltd	£41,770
2	ACT Training	£99,480
3	A Mind Apart Theatre Company Limited	£47,440
4	Artz for All C.I.C	£30,750
5	Aston Villa Foundation	£48,368
6	Barca-Leeds	£48,498
7	Barnsley College	£98,018
8	Beckfoot Heaton Primary School	£25,600
9	Be Safe - AWP	£27,030
10	Birmingham Education Partnership	£75,000
11	Black Country Consortium Ltd.] (Active Black Country)	£43,401
12	Blackpool FC Community Trust	£41,500
13	Blend Youth Project	£26,010
14	Brent Council	£60,000
15	Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival (BDBF)	£44,200
16	Cannon Street Memorial Baptist Church (CSMBC)	£25,262
17	Catch22	£63,956
18	CFYDC (Chance) T/A Chapeltown Youth Development Centre	£49,553
19	Challenge Academy CIC	£43,062
20	Child Action Northwest	£29,519
21	Clarets in the Community Ltd	£32,800
22	Compass Support	£45,422
23	County Durham Youth Justice Service	£55,000
24	Develop	£48,342
25	Doncaster Children's Services Trust	£56,000
26	e:merge (UK) Company Ltd	£47,464
27	Early Break	£49,004
28	East Sussex County Council, Children's Services Department	£93,521
29	Education Futures Trust	£48,642
30	Empire Coaching Limited	£25,200
31	Empowr-U CIC	£44,540
32	Escapeline	£31,050
33	Essex County Council	£56,758
34	First Class Foundation	£48,900
35	Fresh Start New Beginnings	£50,000
36	Futures Advice, Skills & Employment Ltd	£63,289
37	Give A Gift	£35,794
38	Gladesmore Community School	£70,250
39	Glyndwr University	£41,990
40	Grassroot Communities CIC	£30,156
41	Groundwork London	£49,867
42	Groundwork Northamptonshire	£43,850
43	Hampshire Cultural Trust	£28,250
44	Horn of Africa Youth Association	£28,500
45	Hounslow Action For Youth Association	£35,000
46	Hull Women's Aid	£36,683
47	Hyson Green Youth Club	£40,640
48	Ignite Trust	£27,973
49	Immediate Theatre	£26,040
50	Impact Mentoring	£49,164
51	Ipswich Community Media Community Interest Company	£47,965
52	Jamie's Farm	£49,175
53	Kids Inspire	£47,400
54	Krunch UK	£48,584
55	Leeds Rugby Foundation	£36,936
56	M13 Youth Project	£26,236
57	Mahdlo (Oldham Youth Zone)	£49,986
58	Mancroft Advice Project	£37,444
59	Media Academy Cymru	£49,968
60	Media Academy Cymru	£49,858
61	Medway Youth Service	£50,000
62	Mouth That Roars	£26,847
63	National Youth Theatre of Great Britain	£62,836
64	Nepacs	£37,142
65	Newport Mind Association	£47,875
66	No Limits (South)	£84,327
67	North Yorkshire Hospice Care	£30,329
68	Nottingham City Youth Justice Service	£192,558
69	Oasis Community Hub Waterloo	£49,822
70	Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria	£100,000
71	Onboard Skatepark Sheffield Ltd	£48,748
72	Orchard Hill Academy and Trust (Nightingale Community Academy)	£49,690
73	Parenting 2000	£41,975
74	Pembrokeshire County Council	£50,000
75	PIE: Pursuing Individual Excellence	£30,000
76	Play Sports Ltd	£49,794
77	Premier Agents Ltd	£49,794
78	Preston North End Community and Education Trust	£54,095
79	Prevex Limited	£49,908
80	QCCA (Queen's Crescent Community Association)	£57,780
81	Reach South Academy Trust	£78,758
82	Refocus Project Ltd	£33,925
83	Regenerate.com (RegenerateUK)	£36,675
84	REMEDI	£47,500
85	Rise Learning Zone CIC	£69,240
86	River Tees Multi-Academy Trust	£49,349
87	Rochdale Connections Trust	£57,000
88	Safer Communities Ltd	£75,689
89	Salford Foundation Ltd	£39,079
90	Shaw Trust	£50,000
91	SkyWay Charity	£49,680
92	Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council	£114,000
93	South Gloucestershire Council	£40,750
94	Southwark Diocesan Welcare	£36,661
95	Sports Alive North West	£43,150
96	Sport Works	£49,257
97	St. Mary's Catholic Academy	£45,000
98	St Giles Trust	£148,420
99	Stockton on Tees Borough Council	£76,641
100	Stop Abuse for Everyone	£40,880
101	StreetGames	£47,610
102	StreetGames	£37,950
103	Streetwise Young People's Project	£32,164
104	Studio3Arts	£36,333
105	SV Academy Limited	£60,811
106	Switch Up CIC	£94,183
107	Tarner Community Project	£34,410
108	Telford & Wrekin CVS	£26,906
109	The Enthusiasm Trust	£49,458
110	The Rowans AP Academy	£50,000
111	The Street Soccer Foundation	£43,090
112	The Youth Association	£48,278
113	Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Peace Foundation	£45,298
114	Totnes Rural Area Youth Engagement (TRAYE)	£25,254
115	Transform Training Ltd	£40,671
116	Warrington Youth Club Limited	£48,989
117	We Are IVE	£49,671
118	West Rhyl Young People's Project	£79,509
119	Womenzone Community Centre	£49,993
120	WoW Toxteth Library	£47,936
121	XLP	£49,879
122	YES Outdoors	£43,000
123	YMCA Cardiff	£72,000
124	YMCA North Tyneside	£30,000
125	You And Me Counselling	£28,600
126	Young Gloucestershire	£48,950
127	Young People Cornwall	£39,315
128	Young Shrewsbury (Shrewsbury Town Council)	£42,260
129	Youth Cymru	£46,600
130	Youth Federation Ltd	£49,590

About the Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund is an independent charitable trust. It is run by Impetus, a charity focused on transforming the lives of disadvantaged young people, in partnership with the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) and Social Investment Business.

The partnership combines Impetus’ expertise of building high impact charities and programmes, EIF’s knowledge of how to intervene early to improve outcomes for children, and Social Investment Business’ experience of managing and evaluating large scale grant programmes, to create a bold new model to tackle youth offending.