# Comic Relief #iwill youth social action fund seeks applications

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/04/25/comic-relief-iwill-youth-social-action-fund-seeks-applications/
- Published: 2017-04-25T10:00:37+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Comic Relief’s #iwill fund is open for applications until 12^(th) May for projects
encouraging young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to participate in and lead
youth social action.**

 

[Comic Relief](https://www.comicrelief.com/) has partnered with the [#iwill campaign](http://www.iwill.org.uk/)
to create a £2.4 million fund to target young people from less affluent backgrounds.
The campaign aims to get six out of ten young people involved in social action by
2020, and the [#iwill fund](http://www.comicrelief.com/grants/initiatives/iwill-youth-social-action-fund)
is offering grants for up to 30 projects of between £20,000 to £50,000 per year 
for up to three years, with a maximum of £150,000 in total. Comic Relief is keen
to fund projects that will work with young people in areas of high need and deprivation,
and where there are minimal services or activities available for young people.

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The criteria for the grants will be:

 

 * Ability to demonstrate effective ways to build relationships with ‘reluctant’
   young people in their own community
 * Ability to demonstrate how they will engage those young people in creative, innovative
   and meaningful social action

 

Activity funded under this programme will need to reflect the Step Up To Serve Six
Shared Principles of quality social action:

 

 * challenging
 * youth-led
 * socially impactful
 * progressive
 * embedded
 * reflective

 

More information on [application criteria and eligibility](http://www.comicrelief.com/grants/initiatives/iwill-youth-social-action-fund)
are available on the Comic Relief site.

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