The Volunteer Recruitment Fund, announced by charities minister Fiona Mactaggart last week, intends to help organisations attract first-time volunteers, including young people not in education or employment.
Of 59 projects benefiting from grants averaging 80,000, eight are designed for young people.
They include Hands On!, a youth volunteering project for 12- to 21-year-olds in Glossop; the Active Youth Project, which is aimed at disengaged 13- to 25-year-olds in north Tyneside; and the Voluntary Services Unit's Youth In Action.
The grant will allow Youth In Action to appoint a project co-ordinator to expand its group-based work into east Kent.
Youth in Action director Pene Clarkson said: "For young volunteers, group projects are more effective than placements."
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