Evidence into Action – Youth Futures Foundation has up to £225k grants available for voluntary, community, and social enterprise sector organisations across the West Midlands (Wolverhampton, Birmingham, and Sandwell) to design and deliver evidence-based practises that address youth unemployment among young people aged between 16 and 24 from minoritised ethnic backgrounds.
The aim of this programme is to:
- Improve knowledge mobilisation across the youth employment sector.
- Support practitioners, employers, funders, and commissioners in understanding and enacting evidence-informed change in how they do things.
- Provide an opportunity for delivery organisations to explore and implement what the Foundation’s Youth Employment toolkit says about on-the-job and off-the-job training to enable young people to thrive.
To apply, groups must:
- Already work with young people in selected local authorities within London, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and/or West Midlands.
- Work with young people aged 16 to 24 who identify as one or more of the following: Black, Mixed Black, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, and/or Gypsy Roma Traveller heritage, and who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET) or at risk of becoming NEET.
- Have an organisational income of between £50,000 and £2 million.
- Have been legally established for a minimum of 12 months.
Funding is divided into two phases:
Phase One (up to £75,000 funding for 12 months).
- Organisations will be supported by a dedicated learning partner to focus on evidence translation. It will involve a range of workshops and one-to-one consultations to co-create resources. The aim of this initial learning phase is for funded organisations to develop existing or new activities, with development support from Action for Race Equality.
- Groups will test and pilot evidence-based approaches in the second half of phase one.
Phase Two (up to £75,000 per year for up to two years).
- A further two years of funding will be available to phase one organisations to deliver activities that have been developed in phase one, subject to meeting budget and proposal for delivery criteria.
Eligible costs include:
- Staffing costs associated with participating in Evidence into Action learning activities (eg an evaluation/learning role, a portion of an existing role/new role, employer engagement roles etc).
- Staffing costs associated with participating in organisational development/capacity building support provided by Action for Race Equality.
- A contribution to the core costs of an organisation.
- Delivery staff to support youth involvement and/or pilot activity during phase one.
- Project delivery costs related to pilot activities with young people during phase one.
- Delivery of existing youth employment activities that include on-the-job or off-the-job training and are delivered to the target group of young people (phase two only).
⏰ Deadline: 9th Sept 24
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