Young Start Funding
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This document provides information about various Big Lottery Fund Scotland grant programs. It summarizes the Young Start Fund, which provides grants from £10,000 to £50,000 for projects focused on improving outcomes for youth. Eligible projects engage 8-24 year olds and involve youth in design, development and delivery. The fund aims to improve youth confidence, health, connections to other generations, and entrepreneurship. Over 750 applications have been received since 2012, though few address intergenerational connections. Key requirements are strong youth involvement and achieving specified youth outcomes. The document also briefly outlines other Big Lottery Fund grant programs in Scotland.
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Young Start Funding
- 1. Big Lottery Fund Scotland Colm McBriarty Funding Officer
- 2. • From £10,000 – £50,000 • Only for third sector organisations • one stage application process • Decision within 12 weeks • Focussed on 8-24 year olds • Confident, healthy, connected, enterprising • No match funding required • Making the best use of local assets • Strong youth involvement
- 3. • Confident – Children and young people have more confidence and skills • Healthy – Children and young people have better physical, mental and emotional health • Connected – Younger and older generations are better connected and have more understanding and respect for each other • Enterprising – Young people are better prepared for getting a job or starting a business • The estimated budget for Young Start is £5.2m for 2014/15.
- 4. • Since programme launched in March 2012 over 750 applications have been received (averaging at a rate of around 8 per week) •A low number of applications have been received that meet the Connected outcome. • A significant number of applications are indicating that they will meet all the Young Start outcomes.
- 5. Example •Range of support services to people with sensory impairments. • The two year project will benefit approximately 60 young and older people throughout Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray. • Young volunteers of school leaving age deliver activities to older people, enabling all the participants to learn new skills and gain confidence.
- 6. Most common reasons for applications not being successful: • Limited or inadequate young people’s involvement • Proposed project unlikely to deliver Young Start outcomes • Weakness in establishing need for the project • Weaknesses on resources and planning
- 7. Key points to remember: • Active involvement of young people in the design, development and delivery of the project. • Active participation of older generations in activities • Not just different generations using the same materials or taking part in the same activities.
- 8. £250 to £10,000 for up to 12 months One stage application process Community benefit Up to six weeks for a decision Small grant programmes
- 9. The focus of my project is... Which small grant is right for my project?
- 10. £10,000 to £1m for people, families and communities most in need 2 stage application 3 different streams...
- 12. Think your project fits? Read the programme guidance: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/scotland Use AskBIG: ask.biglotteryfund.org.uk Contact us (especially large grants) via Advice Scotland: enquiries.scotland@biglotteryfund.org.uk
- 14. Prepar e Early!
- 15. all funds are different, so... Read the guidance!
- 17. Explain clearly what you want to do
- 18. Not just buzzwords! Concise statement of how this specific money will be used (and who will benefit)
- 19. Ask for the amount of money and length of time you need
- 21. Show how your project will achieve our outcomes
- 22. Make sure your contact details are correct
- 24. Before you submit the application... Make sure you use the right organisation name and that it’s the same as your constitution and other documents
- 25. Before you submit the application... Check you have included any additional documentation required
- 26. Before you submit the application... Check & recheck before sending application Get someone else to read over your application.
- 27. Think your project fits? Visit our website • www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/scotland • www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/youngstartfund Use our enquiries and pre-application advice service • 0300 123 7110 • enquiries.scotland@biglotteryfund.org.uk
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- One successful “Connected” project is based in Aberdeen and provides a range of support services to people with sensory impairments. The two year project will benefit approximately 60 young and older people throughout Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray. Young volunteers of school leaving age will deliver activities to older people, enabling all the participants to learn new skills and gain confidence. This grant will pay for Inclusion Co-ordinator salary and costs, BSL support, staff travel, twelve iPads, sessional workshop fees, volunteer transport, activity materials and overheads. Sum Awarded: £47,454
- Young Start-type projects might also be eligible to receive support through some of the Fund’s other grant programmes (such as Awards for All and 2014 Communities, or even Life Transitions), and others which we operate with or for the Scottish Government (such as the Communities and Families Fund Outreach and enquiries staff will obviously direct applicants to the most appropriate source of funding and can provide Funding Officers with useful information about the history of applications that follow from the enquiries they receive. 5.12The Funding Officers that assess Young Start applications also liaise closely with their other Funding colleagues who may either, like them, be assessing applications from the same applicants to other programmes, or managing grants they may already have been awarded. Part of the reason for this is, of course, to try to avoid duplication of funding (though because Young Start monies are not lottery funding, the two can be used to support the same project or activity), but, more importantly, the liaison allows the Funding Officers to try to make sure that the projects stand a better chance of obtaining the best value and greatest impact from all of the various funding sources available to them. And, of course, it also allows the staff to discuss the applications and the applicants, and thereby share experience and opinions.