Princes Trust Community Cash Grants

Archived Adult Education/Learning Age Communities Dependants and carers Education and learning Offenders and ex-offenders School, College and University Un/Employed Young people (13-25) Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane Fermanagh and Omagh Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Micro (up to £1,000) Small (up to £10,000)

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Overview

The Princes Trust gives practical and financial support to the young people who need it most. They help develop key skills, confidence and motivation, enabling young people to move into work, education or training.

The Community Cash Grants scheme offers cash awards up to £2,000 for young people to design and set up projects on a voluntary basis that will benefit their local community

Eligible projects must:

be run and managed by young people
deal with a local community need, with clear benefit to that community
benefit the young people running the project
be new or developing initiatives

Participants can receive:

A Prince's Trust staff member or volunteer to support them in setting goals, making decisions and evaluating their project.
Access to specialist advice for their project

Applicants must be UK residents aged 14 - 25 who:

Are part of The Trust's four target groups:

Unemployed young people
Young people underachieving in education
Young people leaving care
Young offenders and ex-offenders

Recent evaluations of the programme found that:

75% of award recipients are now in employment, education or training.
87% of award recipients have developed new skills through running their community project.
95% of award recipients felt they had achieved their goals

Example Grants

Over 9,000 young people have received a Community Cash Award to date.

Past awards have included funding for start up youth cafes, asylum seekers improving perceptions in the community through photographic exhibitions, community radio stations, organic gardens kept for and by young people with mental health problems, DVD's to raise awareness of crack dealing.