Co-op Foundation, in partnership with Co-op and the #iwill Fund, is offering grants of up to £20,000 for youth-led groups across the UK to support social action projects and activities that create positive social change in their communities through activism, awareness training, campaigning, disrupting and challenging norms, and building co-operation.
Through the Young Gamechangers Fund, funding is available for groups with an annual income of less than £100,000 that can demonstrate that 75% of their leadership are young people aged between 10 and 25, and are committed to building community cohesion, bringing people together, and designing or testing innovative approaches to established challenges.
In this round, priority will be given to applications from young people with experience of:
- The criminal justice system.
- Barriers to accessing education.
- Living in rural/isolated communities.
- Living in coastal towns and communities.
- Seeking asylum, being a refugee.
- Social and financial barriers to accessing opportunities.
There are funding streams for organisations:
- Project grants can be used to cover the costs of a particular programme activity, such as materials and resources, promotion, venue hire, transport, or staff time spent only on the project. Project grants are only available for groups in England.
- Unrestricted flexible grants can be used for costs such as staff salaries, organisational overheads, maintenance of equipment and venues, and other general running costs. Unrestricted grants are available for groups across the UK.
In addition to funding, successful applicants also get access to peer support networks, training and mentoring.
There is a two-stage application process. Groups must first complete an online eligibility checker before being invited to submit a full application.
The deadline to submit to complete the eligibility checker is 4 December 2024.
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