The £125,000 of funding is being made available from the Youth Social Action Fund, a pilot scheme designed to test how young people between the ages of 10 and 20 can benefit from projects that help them develop a variety of life skills.
It aims to work intensively with young people in small geographic areas over the next two financial years, using social action as a tool to help young people increase their confidence and voice by engaging them in challenging youth-led activities.
Speaking exclusively to CYP Now, civil society minister Nick Hurd explained that the government will use the scheme as an opportunity to create an evidence base of how programmes, similar to the National Citizen Service, can make a difference to that age group.
He wants young people to use projects funded by the Youth Social Action Fund to “stretch and challenge themselves”. He added: “We are very ambitious. We think it really matters.”
The call for applications follows one issued in June, which sought bids for funding from either social action programmes or those supporting the progression and take up of social action opportunities for young people between the ages of 10 and 20 in the two areas.
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