Support for children and young people
Funding theme: Children and young people
This funding programme closed to new applications on Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Grant details
- Area: Greater London
- Open to: No longer open to new applications
- Deadline: Wednesday, 3 July 2024
- Funding length: Up to 5 years
- Funding size: There was no minimum or maximum limit to how much we could give for this funding programme. However, we never give revenue funding exceeding 50% of the applicants turnover/income in any one year
Changes to our funding
We closed five of our funding programmes, including this one, to new applications on Wednesday, 3 July 2024.
Changes to our funding: learn moreThis following text is archived and no longer represents an active funding programme
What we fund
We want to increase the service provision and support available for London’s most vulnerable children and young people.
We want to fund projects and organisations working in three priority areas:
support for vulnerable parents and carers of preschool children (aged 0–5)
support for children and young people engaged in child criminal exploitation
work that addresses the needs of disadvantaged young women and girls
We generally place an upper age limit on beneficiaries of 25.
We welcome applications from organisations:
led or guided by people with lived experience of these issues
with local, community or specialist insight and knowledge
setting out to build the resilience of project beneficiaries
building the evidence of effective interventions
whose approach has been (and continues to be) co-produced with young people
We recognise that service provision is frequently fragmented and unevenly distributed across London. Therefore, we support work that builds stronger connections between the range of services available for children and young people, particularly where this addresses current system shortcomings or failure.
To ensure work is properly resourced, applicants are encouraged to request funds for both staffing as well as costs to support:
training and development
clinical supervision (where appropriate)
project delivery overheads
relevant staff and volunteer management
Wherever possible, we seek to support projects and organisations that involve the communities the project or organisation serves in shaping its services and/or that are majority-staffed or run by those with lived experience of the issues they address.
We will also consider work with children and young people across a number of our other funding strands.
Funding staff costs
We will not usually pay for staff costs beyond one full-time equivalent staff post. For example, we could pay for one full-time staff member, or two part-time staff, both working 17.5 hours a week. We will only fund staff posts that are paid the London Living Wage or above.