Welcome
Building Youth Power and Leadership
We have been supporting charities and organisations across London, Hampshire and Perthshire for over 30 years with grants totalling £3.7m.
Over the last five years we have supported some transformational initiatives to help disadvantaged young people bridge the gap between education and employment across a wide spectrum of areas including education, criminal justice, mental health and life skills.
Our 2020 Strategic Review
At the start of 2020, we embarked upon a transformational eight month strategic review programme led by Ten Years’ Time. We were determined to ensure we were having the greatest impact with our grants so we committed to a process of listening and learning from over 80 experts including many extraordinary young changemakers. We focussed on Youth Power and Leadership and were privileged to gain a much better understanding of the experience of young people in education, housing, youth services, criminal justice, mental health and the care system. Importantly we heard from so many inspirational young activists whose drive, insight and impact made it easy for us to pivot our funding towards innovative and genuinely youth-led work, safe in the knowledge that this will inspire so many more young people to be changemakers. Alongside this we must engage with power leaders to ensure they know how to listen and engage with young people effectively. Please do take a deeper dive into all our findings and read our Emergent Enquiry or for a shorter read, our Key Conclusions.
Causes
Youth Led Partnerships
We are extremely excited to confirm our funding plans on the back of our strategic review.
COVID-19 Funding
Helping our communities through Covid
Even though the Foundation was closed to funding whilst going through the strategic review programme, the Trustees agreed that we must respond to the crisis quickly arising from the Covid-19 pandemic. We set aside our usual grant giving metrics for the year and used cash reserves to support those people and organisations we felt were best placed to meet the most pressing needs emerging from this crisis.
Your story starts here
Following our strategic review we are fully committed and closed to funding until 2022. Please check back for further details later in the year when we will reopen applications for 2022 funding.
