Amount Available: £85,000
Funding Type: Project based
Registration Status: Constituted Organisations
Diversity Area: Across Diversity Areas, but must impact Young People
Activity: Campaigning
Application Deadline: 26th January
The Alliance for Youth Organising will provide anchor grants of £40,000 a year for two years, to organisations that work with young people (up to the age of 35) to support youth organising. Groups will also receive an additional £5,000 to support learning and to provide strategic insight to the Alliance to shape its future strategy.
Alongside directly confronting power structures, this grant can be used to support work that the focuses on creating safe spaces, healing, and strengthening belonging and belief for people who experience systemic injustice.
This fund is for organisations and groups who:
Provide training, coaching, or capacity building specifically for youth organising groups.
Run organising and/or political education training programmes, or leadership development specifically for young organisers or activists.
Offer resources, advice, guidance, tools, or platforms that strengthen youth organising capacity or help new groups to be established.
Facilitate networks or coalitions that connect and strengthen youth organising groups.
Provide legal, communications, or other specialist support services to young organisers.
Offer fiscal sponsorship, incubation, or infrastructure support for young organisers.
Priority will be given to:
Youth-led organisations.
Supporting organising in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, or in rural areas or small towns in England.
Supporting organising led by young people from marginalised and minoritised communities.
Supporting youth organising that strengthens international solidarity and learning from outside the UK (although funding is for UK-based organisations only).
Supporting organisations that engage young people who are new to organising.
Find out more here