Community Cash Awards: grants for young people to set up a project

Community Cash Awards are grants to help you set up a project that will benefit your community.

What you get

• A grant to get you going of up to £5,000
• Support to help plan your project, research your budget, set goals and learn about your community

Are you eligible?

You must be either:

• aged 14-16, and achieving or at risk of achieving less than 5 GCSEs grades A* - C, or
• aged 16-25 and not in education, training or work (or working less than 16 hours a week)

Projects must:

• be run and managed by people between the ages of 14 and 25
• clearly benefit the local community
• benefit the people running the project; and
• be a new or developing project.

What it's not for

• Formal groups or organisations
• Expeditions or overseas travel
• Fundraising activities for charity
• Trips and outings, unless they have educational value

How to apply

Fill in our online form or call 0800 842 842.

The deadline for applications (by young people) is 28th February 2010.

If you would like to put something on this noticeboard, please send it to us at info@resourcecentre.org.uk

Published by Brighton Resource Centre