KFC Youth Foundation Community Grants Programme

Open (with deadline for applications) Children (0-12) Communities Community and neighbourhood development Dependants and carers Family and parenting Health promotion Health, wellbeing and sport Housing and homelessness Offenders and ex-offenders Poverty and deprivation Social inclusion Social welfare and poverty Young people (13-25) Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane England Fermanagh and Omagh Great Britain Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Micro (up to £1,000) Small (up to £10,000)

Track grant Notes

Overview

The KFC Youth Foundation creates opportunities for young people that inspire and empower them to fulfil their potential and build a positive future.

The organisations that they work with across the UK provide safe spaces, help them to unlock talent, build life skills, provide mentoring or improve their chances to gain meaningful employment. They want to fund work that helps young people to create firm foundations, by addressing their needs through early intervention.

They know that grant making makes a huge difference to its recipients, but they are also challenging themselves to become a service delivery partner rather than just a financial partner. It is their ambition to create amazing safe spaces and develop awesome youth workers that allow young people who most need it, to feel safe and secure.

Summary

Key dates: Expression of interest open - 13th January 2025 Expression of interest deadline - 14th February 2025

Grant Size: They will make two year grants of £3,000 (£3,000 in year one + £3,000 in year two).

What do they want to fund?

The KFC Youth Foundation welcomes funding applications from organisations which:

Benefit young people aged 11-25 years old
Supports those in a position of economic disadvantage (Including at least one of these groups; care leavers, those experiencing homelessness, young carers, young parents, refugees, young people at risk of or with experience of the criminal justice system)
Empower young people to fulfil their potential and build a positive future by supporting them by providing spaces that allow young people to feel safe and secure, helping them to unlock talent, build life skills, provide mentoring and/ or improve their chances to gain meaningful employment.
Ultimately empower all young people to fulfil their potential and build a positive future
Will demonstrate positive results within 12 months of our funding being received.

Eligibility

The KFC Youth Foundation welcomes funding applications from organisations which:

Deliver services to one or more of their target groups
Are based in the UK
Be a registered charity, a registered community interest company, an unincorporated club or association or an unregistered charity.
Have an annual income of no more than £400,000
Have existed for at least 12 months at the time of submission
Have a signed constitution/ governing documents with asset lock where applicable
Have a bank account in its own name which requires two unrelated signatories/ dual authorisation
Have accounts detailing income and expenditure over the past 12 months
Have an active board of trustees or directors.
Have a suitable safeguarding policy.

They are asking for your organisation's latest accounts detailing income and expenditure and if the accounts are over 12 months, your organisations income and expenditure for the past 12 months as well. This is to make sure your organisations income is under their threshold of £400,000. They will not be able to provide grants to organisations over this limit.

Funding Level

KFC Youth Foundation offer two year grants of £3,000 (£3,000 in year one + £3,000 in year two).

They have recently introduced multi-year funding to reduce some of the burden of administration for their applicants in recognition of the continuously challenging environment their sector operates in.

Funding can be use to cover costs such as:

Materials.
Activities.
Staff posts.
Staff training.

Target Beneficiaries

The target beneficiaries of KFC Foundation are aged 11-25 years old and in a position of economic disadvantage (Including at least one of these groups; care leavers, those experiencing homelessness, young carers, young parents, refugees, young people at risk of or with experience of the criminal justice system)

For further information about what the Foundation can and cannot fund please refer to the FAQs.

Sporting Organisation

They will make grants to sports-based programmes but you will need to demonstrate

that your proposal focuses on delivering services to one or more of the KFC Foundation priority groups (e.g. care leavers, those experiencing homelessness, young carers, young parents, young people at risk of or with experience of the criminal justice system). These priority groups must make up the main percentage of your proposal’s users.
that you have a broader mission and that sport is used as a vehicle for building life skills, provide mentoring and/or improve their chances to gain meaningful employment.

Please note if you are using funding for sports kits, you will not be able to use the KFC Youth Foundation branding on them.