A panel of 13 young people selected 11 projects to receive funding after a series of interviews involving 21 shortlisted bids for Jack Petchey Foundation grants.
The funding has been handed out to mark the foundation's 18th birthday and based on priorities to emerge from a survey of 200 young people who have been supported by the foundation.
These priorities are supporting young people with their financial education, in finding work, with mental health issues and to tackle housing affordability.
Of young people surveyed around half (48 per cent) felt education had not prepared them for the world of work, 32 per cent have had mental health problems, and 43 per cent said a lack of money has held them back.
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