Ambition Giving
Derren Hayes
Monday, June 8, 2015
To celebrate its 90th anniversary, youth charity Ambition has set up a small grants programme to run throughout the year offering funding to individuals and groups to help deliver activities for young people up to the age of 24 in their community. Ambition Giving was launched in February and will make funding awards four times throughout 2015.
What will it fund? Ambition has three overarching outcomes for all of its programmes: improved educational attainment, improved health and increased employability for the future. Any project funded must address one of these outcomes. It should also focus on at least one of the following themes: supporting young people to be happy and healthy in mind and body; supporting young people to develop skills and access training that will help them to confidently enter education or employment; ensuring young people are adding value to their local community; supporting young people to develop leadership skills through practical projects that benefit their peers; and enabling young people to express themselves creatively and develop their media skills.
How much is available and to who? Grants of up to £2,000 are available through Ambition Giving, which is open to bids from both members and non-members of the charity. However, bids from non-members must be endorsed by a youth worker of an Ambition member. Grants of less than £500 will be provided in one lump sum, while those more than that will be distributed in stages.
What is the deadline? The deadline for the next rounds of funding is 31 July and 30 October.
More information For an application pack, see www.ambitionuk.org/site/media/Ambition Giving_Application_Form_2015.pdf.
