# Applications open for £2 million youth loneliness fund

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/08/16/applications-open-2m-youth-loneliness-fund/
- Published: 2018-08-16T08:37:42+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The Building Connections Fund Youth strand is inviting charities and community
organisations from across England to apply for up to £80,000 to expand or enhance
work tackling youth loneliness in the most deprived areas of the UK.**

 

Applications are open until 26 September. Organisations can apply for up to £80,000:
up to £10,000 (to be spent between December 2018 and March 2019) to engage young
people in co-designing innovations to improve the impact of existing provision on
tackling loneliness, and up to £70,000 (to be spent between April 2019 and March
2021) to implement and evaluate these innovations.

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The funding is available for projects that support any groups of young people within
the [most deprived 30% areas](http://dclgapps.communities.gov.uk/imd/idmap.html)
of England.

 

Grants can also support projects from any location in England that mainly benefit
young people with any one or more of the following circumstances:

 

 * Being a carer
 * Being unemployed or precariously employed
 * Experiencing bereavement
 * Having a disability or long-term health condition
 * Having been in the care system.

 

More information as well as the application form is available on[ the Co-op Foundation site](https://blog.coopfoundation.org.uk/index.php/2018/08/15/2-million-youth-strand-of-building-connections-fund-open/).

 

The £11.5 million [Building Connections Fund](https://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/building-connections-fund)
is a partnership between Government, Big Lottery Fund and the Co-op Foundation, 
set up in response to the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness to support projects in
England that prevent or reduce loneliness.

 

It is split into two strands: the Main fund and the Youth strand. The £2 million
Youth strand is made up of £1m from Government and £1m match funding from the Co-
op Foundation.

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