The Youth Endowment Fund has launched a new
themed grant round: ‘Another chance - Diversion from the criminal justice
system’ to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence.
Scope of programmes They’ll fund in this round
They’re looking to fund projects that meet all
of the following criteria:
- Your project supports children
(aged 10 – 17 living in England and Wales) identified at one of four
turning point moments before court action is taken for a crime:
- Not yet arrested but
identified by police or other statutory bodies as at high risk of becoming
involved in crime
- At point of injury due to a
violent incident
- At point of arrest
- Prior to charge and court
action (often referred to as out of court disposals)
- Diversionary programmes that
provide:
- Family and parenting support
- Mental health and therapeutic
support
- Restorative justice
- Other approaches if they can
demonstrate scale and evidence of impact.
- Programmes that involve a
referral by a relevant statutory body, for example:
- Police
- Violence Reduction Unit
- Local Authority Youth
Offending Team
- Acute healthcare trust
- But programmes may be provided
by charities, public services, or private sector organisations.
- Programmes that have sufficient
scale and evidence of impact to run a large-scale efficacy and/or
effectiveness evaluation, through a randomised control trial or
quasi-experimental design method.
Or
- Programmes that require a pilot
study, but that could be ready for an efficacy and/or effectiveness trial
within two years.
Funding Information and Criteria
- They will look to spend between
£10 million and £20 million depending on the quality of the applications.
- The Youth Endowment Fund aims
to identify around 10-20 programmes that are ready for robust impact
evaluation or could be supported to reach this point within two years.
- Their funding can run for up to
three years (but you can apply for one or two years’ funding too).
Eligibility Criteria
- At the Youth Endowment Fund,
they only provide grants to organisations operating in England and Wales.
Post Date - 20-Apr-2021