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What you can spend the money on

Developing your project idea

We’re offering a development grant from £300 up to £25,000. This will help partnerships develop their project ideas further.

We’re funding well-considered, high-quality support for young people over several years. And we think applicants will need time to consider the most effective way to deliver that.

This funding might cover things like:

  • staff time

  • more engagement sessions with young people and others in the community

  • hosting partnership meetings

We’ll pay you in advance, after you have accepted our terms and conditions.

Delivering and running your project

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, geographical area and amount requested.

If your partnership is invited to apply for project funding after you’ve developed your idea, we’ll ask you to tell us your project costs.

These costs may include:

  • young people’s training or work placement costs – we encourage all organisations to pay the real living wage

  • expenses for young people to get to and from workplace or training and items of clothing which are not normally provided by the employer

  • training for staff and employers paying for project staff such as job coach support

  • overhead costs

  • software and website infrastructure

  • marketing and communications

  • small items of equipment, such as computers

  • monitoring and evaluation costs

  • Welsh language translation

  • professional and legal fees electric vehicles – check our electric vehicle guidance for more information

Access to Work scheme

Funding may be available for some costs through the Access to Work scheme.

The Access to Work Scheme may be able to offer specific support for some young people’s work placements. In this case, we would expect the young person to apply to that scheme for funding first, with assistance from the employer or job coach. If their request is rejected or more in-depth support is required, we may consider funding it.

Advice is available here on the UK Government Access to Work website.

What we cannot fund

We cannot fund:

  • costs for supporting young people that are already participating in other employment programmes

  • alcohol

  • profit-making

  • recoverable VAT

  • activities that replace government funding. Before you apply, you should research what support is already available

  • political or religious activities paying someone else to write your application