LandAid: StreetSmart Youth Homelessness Support Fund 2025

Overview

Grant Eligibility Criteria 

Organisational Information

•  You must be a Charity, Community Interest Company (CIC), Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) or other form of not-for-profit organisation.
• You need at least three unrelated members of your board of trustees.
• Your charity must work with young people aged 16-25 who are, or who are at risk of, or who have experienced homelessness. This does not have to be the exclusive focus of your organisation’s work. However, LandAid funding can only cover projects (or parts of projects) which specifically support this age group.
• Organisations can hold multiple grants from LandAid at any one time, but in general only one grant under each of the grant programmes at any one time.

You must not have free reserves far in excess of your reserves policy without a valid reason. This would include reserves which you allocated for a certain purpose but are free to reallocate as needed. It does not include the value of fixed assets such as buildings

They are looking for projects that will be able to demonstrate tangible impact in either/both of the following areas: 

1. Housing – your project supports young people (aged 16-25) into accommodation (i.e. emergency, supported or move-on accommodation)
2. Employability – your project supports young people (aged 16-25) out of homelessness into education, employment, and training. With a view to enabling their transition to sustainable, independent living.

Project information

• Any project they fund must take place in a region specified within the table below,
• Applicants must be able to deliver project outcomes within 12 months of receiving all or initial instalment of funds. They expect to disburse funds (all or initial instalments) by the 31 July 2025, particularly where revenue funding is concerned,
• Projects can be revenue, capital or a mixture of the two,
• They can match-fund, or fully-fund projects,
• They do not retrospectively fund projects, fund projects which are the duty of statutory funders, or projects you could fund yourselves,
• They welcome partnership applications, with an identified lead partner who will hold the funding and duties associated.

Funding

As a result of the generous support of diners across the country, LandAid and StreetSmart have discreet pots of funding available to support projects across the UK. This means that they have different amounts available across different regions.

Please see below for guidance on how much you can apply for depending on where your project will take place.