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What we want to fund

We can fund:

  • projects that will run for around 3 years

  • part of your project or all of your project

We welcome a variety of applications which may vary in the number of young people to support and amount requested.

What projects must do

All projects must:

  • help young people from ethnically minoritised communities in Cardiff to get into green careers. This might include skills development, voluntary and paid work experience, and longer-term employment

  • increase young people’s awareness of green careers

  • make sure employers are set up to support young people from ethnically minoritised communities

  • plan to share your learning and achievements to raise awareness and influence policy and practice

  • collect data for a programme evaluation (we’ll provide guidance when you need to do this)

  • must have the ambition to see some of the young people they support progress into paid employment (as well as helping to develop their skills and experience)

We call these our funding ‘outcomes’, or the changes we want the projects we fund to make.

Read our guidance about how to track your project’s progress to meet funding outcomes.

Projects that support specific groups of young people

Funded projects must:

  • work with young people from ethnically minoritised communities in Cardiff. They should be involved in helping with the design, delivery and evaluation of the project

  • commit to gender equality and proactively find ways to encourage women to participate. Your project should aim for around half of the people you support to be women

  • focus on benefitting people living in Cardiff

  • be for young people aged between 16 and 25. Helping those who are younger than 16 can be part of your project but this should not be its focus

Projects that include young people furthest from the labour market

This means supporting young people who face multiple barriers to employment, such as:

  • low mental or physical health

  • low self-esteem and confidence

  • poor performance in education

  • substance misuse

  • homelessness

  • criminal records

  • experience of childhood trauma

  • those that have experienced local authority care

This funding is not just to support young people who are not in education, employment or training. But we expect applicants to identify and work with those in greatest need of support. Young people can have had support from other services previously.

We understand that providing additional support will require more resources and will mean working with fewer young people.

Projects that complement existing and future services and activities

We know that other local, regional and national services exist for young people across Wales. Your project must show a strong understanding of how you complement what’s already available and fills a gap.

As part of this, we expect that you’ll build relationships to ease referrals to and from other services. Examples of other services include:

  • careers advice

  • other work placement services

  • education providers

  • other support services for young people

  • job centres

Projects in Cardiff

We’ll be looking to support one partnership project that will support young people in and around Cardiff.