The Youth Investment Fund (YIF) aims to expand and improve local youth clubs and services, in order to drive positive outcomes for young people. BBC Children in Need has been selected to distribute phase one of this funding on behalf of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
The YIF is different to the programme of the same name run by The National Lottery Community Fund and jointly funded by the DCMS that was launched in 2016.
How much and where?
In phase one, £10m is available for youth provision in what the government is calling “left-behind areas” of England. It will fund small-scale capital projects, including equipment and small redevelopments delivered in the 2021/22 financial year.
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