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Funding: small grants to encourage and inspire young black people
The Black Training and Enterprise Group (BTEG) is offering grants of £500 to 40 local community and voluntary groups through its REACH Community Engagement Fund.
Youth charities are being invited to bid for a share of a £20,000 grant to organise activities to "encourage and inspire" young black people...
Awards: NCVYS Young Partners Awards
The NCVYS Young Partners Award (YPA), sponsored by Participation Works, the Big Lottery Fund and PGL, is a celebration of young people’s involvement in decision making within voluntary and community youth organisations or projects...
The Social Breakfast
The Social Breakfast is a website set up by Ashram Housing Association in Birmingham to give young people an opportunity to express their views on issues that matter to them and be heard by decision-makers...
Funding: O2 - ThinkBig
O2's new funding scheme for young people aged 13-25 offering up to £2,500 for successful projects that young people lead on...
News: National Citizen Service details published
The government has published further details of the Nation Citizen Service for 16 year olds to be piloted next Summer, 2011. This covers an idea of the stages of anticipated programme delivery and the commissioning process...
Funding: Big Lottery Youth in Focus programme launched
Big Lottery Fund has launched this new fund targeting groups of young people identified as in particular need of additional support...
Funding: Moto Community Grants
Grants of up to £10,000 for voluntary and community organisations within 25 miles of a Moto service area...
Funding: I Do Ideas - £1,000 for young people's ideas
£1000 for up to 30 young people aged 13–19 to make a positive change in your area...
Birkbeck College survey on future Youth Work degree-level qualifications
Birkbeck, University of London is doing a scoping exercise to gauge support for the establishment of Higher Education under-graduate and post-graduate professional qualifications in Youth Work...
Volunteering opportunity: BBC Blast
BBC Blast is looking for young people (aged between 18-24) to work on a BBC Blast Event in a number of areas of the country...