Funding is now available for the Youth Opportunities Fund and the Youth Capital Fund for 2009 / 2010!

You can download the application form and guidelines by clicking the links below:

 Youth Funding Application Form (2,659KB)
 Youth Funding Application Form (504KB)

 Youth Funding Guidelines (2,231KB)
 Youth Funding Guidelines (355KB)

Please note there is now only one form for all three funding streams.

More information about each fund is given below. If you have views on the current application forms please e-mail your comments to youth@staffordshire.gov.uk

What is the Youth Opportunities Fund?

The Youth Opportunity Fund is a pot of money given to us by the Government to pay for young people's activities.  The pot of money is there for young people to bid into for the sort's of things young people like to do but have never had the chance to.  This may be things like residentials, DJ workshops, arts projects, developing projects which benefit other young people, etc.

The fund is managed by a group of young people from across Staffordshire, who will meet to consider and discuss your application and decide on how the fund will be given out.  This group will work to a set of criteria to help them make those decisions, and you should follow these criteria when filling in an application.

There are two other pots of money available to young people when thinking about the Youth Opportunities Fund.  These are the Youth Capital Fund, a pot of money to be used on things like doing up buildings, buying mobile resources, youth shelters, etc.  This fund is also managed by the group of young people that manage the Youth Opportunity Fund. 

The second pot is the YouthBank.  This is very similar to the Youth Opportunity Fund, but is managed by young people locally.  This fund could be utilised for smaller projects or activities, which have a benefit for you and other young people in your area.

Here's the good news.  You can apply for Youth Opportunity Funding and Youth Capital Funding for the same project! (Where it meets the fund criteria)

Here's the bad news.  You cannot apply for Youth Opportunity Funding and Youth Bank Funding for the same project/activity.

Some more good news.  You could apply for Youth Capital Funding and YouthBank funding for the same project! (Where it meets the fund criteria)

So what's your next step?

Talk to your friends and/or group members about what you'd like to do.  Click the link to the funding pot that you're interested in. Read the funding criteria, and complete the application pack and send it in! Work with a helpful adult if you would find that useful.  This could be your teacher, youth worker, carer, Connexions PA, etc.

Good luck and have fun!        

Last Modified: 30/06/2009 09:01:52
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