Resources: Funding focus - v

What will it fund? Schemes that provide young people with the chance to engage in worthwhile activity, coupled with the prospect of personal development through increased skills, confidence or learning. Applicants must also be able to demonstrate tangible outcomes for the organisation and its beneficiaries or the local community. Three types of opportunities will be supported in this first funding round: full-time placements where a young person makes a structured commitment to volunteer for a minimum of 30 hours a week over a period of at least 13 weeks; part-time activities of at least one hour a week over at least eight weeks; and short-term opportunities for young people to get a flavour of volunteering and a sense of its potential value to themselves and their community. Full-time volunteers will receive an allowance of 60 a week.