The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) grant to Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) will enable the expansion of the Fixers social action campaign for 16-to 25-year-olds.
The programme allows young people to choose and develop campaigns that will be useful to the community and help other people.
More than 5,000 young people in England have already taken part in 600 Fixers projects, amassing more than 100,000 hours of voluntary work between them.
So far young people have chosen a broad range of campaigns on problems they have often personally faced, including tackling negative stereotypes of minority groups including gender, race, sexuality and mental health issues.
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