Resources: Funding focus - Young Roots

It provides money to set up projects that are based on young people's own interests and ideas.

Who can apply? Projects must involve young people aged 13 to 20, and they must be a partnership between youth groups and at least one "heritage partner", such as a museum or local history group. Projects will need to show how young people are involved in managing the project and should last for up to 18 months.

What will it fund? Projects that link to the "local and culturally varied" heritage of the UK. For example, "heritage" could mean local traditions, local environmental landscapes and wildlife habitats, sites linked to industrial or maritime history, archive and oral history work, or the social history of communities. In Beverley, Yorkshire, a project received 12,000 to research local archives and mount a performance based on the 1860 trial of a young woman accused of theft. This helped young people explore issues such as attitudes to women and the history of criminal justice, as well as develop their own research and drama skills.