Commonweal Housing: Call for New Ideas - Young People4
Overview
The Call for New Ideas is an invitation to not-for-profits across the UK to bring them new and imaginative ideas for housing solutions to social injustice.
The more original and creative the better; the organisations with the best ideas will be offered up-to £10,000 grant funding.
This money is for you to test your model through further research.
The aim: to work in partnership with you to bring your models to life. It starts with your lightbulb moment, and it finishes, they hope, with a housing and support pilot project running for up-to 10 years.
Who is it for?
The Call for New Ideas is for frontline organisations who want to manage a housing and support service that will improve the lives of vulnerable people.
Who does it help?
For this year’s Call for New Ideas, we are only looking for ideas that tackle injustices faced by young people over the age of 18 who have had experience of least one of:
- The care system
- Mental health problems or are neurodivergent
- Difficult experiences in the education system, particularly those who faced serial exclusion
To help guide their thinking for Call for New Ideas: Young People, they commissioned national homelessness charity Homeless Link to undertake horizon scanning research to better understand the key drivers of youth homelessness. This research identified the above groups as being particularly overlooked and vulnerable.
The report can be read in full here.
Previously funded projects