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Our funding aims

What we’re looking to fund

We’ll fund projects that help bring diverse communities together. We’ll also fund projects that help children and young people, and people affected by health inequalities, to use their voices to influence change.

Your project must meet one of the aims set out on this page.

On the following page, we explain the full criteria your project must meet to be considered for funding. 

Your project must meet one of our aims

We’re interested in projects that:

  • Improve relationships between people with different life experiences
    For example, it brings together people from different backgrounds, generations, or places.
  • Help people and communities meaningfully connect online when it's hard to meet in person
    This could be because of health issues, poor transport links, or because they live far apart from others with similar experiences or identities.
  • Support people from all backgrounds to influence the future of their communities
    For example, by creating ways for local people to have power in decisions that affect them.
  • Help children and young people facing specific challenges to change the systems around them
    By making sure their voices are heard – and acted on.
  • Help more organisations to involve and listen to children and young people
    Using what they say to make services, systems and communities better.
  • Support people and communities experiencing health inequalities have their voices heard and acted upon to influence the systems that affect their health.
    By health inequalities we mean avoidable and unfair differences in health across different groups.

We particularly welcome projects that involve or support people with disabilities.

You are more likely to get funding if you meet one aim really well.
You do not need to meet all the aims. We’re unlikely to fund projects that do a little of everything.

On our blog, you can read examples of projects that help children and young people to use their voice.

Our aims reflect our community-led missions. Learn more about our missions and outcomes. [link]