Funding

Co-op Foundation #iwill Fund

3 mins read Funding
The #iwill Fund is a £40m joint investment from the National Lottery Community Fund, using National Lottery funding, and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to support young people to access high-quality social action opportunities. Co-op Foundation is acting as a match funder.

The foundation has just launched the first strand of its £3m extension to its #iwill Fund, which focuses on supporting youth-led advocacy to improve the design and use of community spaces.

The other two strands will launch later in 2019, focusing on:

The #iwill campaign aims to make social action part of life for all 10- to 20-year-olds. It will run until 2022, with an overall focus on supporting social action that draws on young people's own lived experience to:

This funding builds on the foundation's Building Connections Fund Youth strand, which supported young people to co-design improvements to services and community spaces.

How will the grants work?

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