Future Communities Fund
The second round of our Future Communities Fund is launching 15 May
The second round of our Future Communities Fund focuses on supporting organisations that are helping young people with experience of the youth justice system to re-build their lives and settle back into their communities.
Through this £1.75 million programme round, we’re looking to fund roughly ten organisations and grants will be awarded on an unrestricted basis and to a maximum value of £150,000 over five years.
Are you eligible?
As part of this round, we’re looking to fund organisations:
- With an annual income of £250,000 or less
- That are not-for-profit organisations, which are registered and operate exclusively in the United Kingdom
- Have two or more unrelated directors or trustees on the Board
- That primarily support justice-experienced young people aged 10-25 years old
- Which have a sole purpose of supporting justice-experienced young people to re-engage with their community
Find out more
About the fund
Our Future Communities Fund is the first strategic fund launched under our ‘Building communities of the future together’ strategy. We’re pioneering a distinctly co-operative way of funding, and that’s why this fund is:
- Participatory – grant-giving will be led by our Future Communities Collective. This is a group of diverse young people who advise on our funding and strategy.
- Unrestricted – we’re funding organisations, not projects.
- Long-term – we’re providing funding for up to five years.
- Trusting – we’ll work with our partners to understand how our funding can increase their impact.
- Accessible – we introduced a two-stage application process for this fund and pledged to be honest and open with applicants as we trial new ways of working. This aligns to our IVAR commitments.
- Supportive – we’re here to help community groups to be the best they can be in whatever way we can. That’s why we’re funding them flexibly and amplifying the amazing work that they do.
- Facilitating co-operating – we’ll help to facilitate connections between groups so our partners can achieve more, learn together and co-operate for a fairer world.
Our Future Communities Fund was first launched in November 2022. It brought together two strategic priorities from our youth-designed Future Communities Vision – ‘youth activism and shared power’ and ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’.
Our working definition of ‘diverse’ is people who have experience of being marginalised in society due to their race, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic status or any other attribute that impacts their inclusion.
Read more about our partners from round one of funding.
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