# Big Lottery Fund to fund young social entrepreneurs

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/08/03/big-lottery-fund-fund-young-social-entrepreneurs/
- Published: 2005-08-03T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Working with UnLtd, the Big Lottery Fund is to grant £10 million to help young people
in England to make their community improvement ideas a reality.

“The Big Boost” programme, which goes live in September 2005, will award grants
of between £250 and £5,000 to help individuals and small groups of young people,
aged between 11 and 25 years old, deliver projects in their local areas. It will
encourage social entrepreneurship among young people from all backgrounds, helping
individuals develop projects, which will make a lasting difference to them and to
their communities.

UnLtd has been selected as the Big Lottery Fund’s award partner to deliver The Big
Boost under the Grants to Individuals strand of its new Young People’s Fund programme
in England.

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Activities that are likely to receive support range from school-based enterprises
to larger scale, community projects, such as a counselling helpline for young people
and a youth magazine which raises awareness of racism.

UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, is a charitable organisation that
wants to support and develop the role of social entrepreneurs as a force for positive
change in the United Kingdom. It will lead delivery of the Big Boost programme in
partnership with The Prince’s Trust, Scarman Trust and Changemakers.

The programme will be launched in September 2005 with applications forms available
immediately after that and it will be promoted through existing and new, youth focussed
networks of UnLtd and its delivery partners.

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