The Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent charitable foundation, committed to supporting vulnerable and marginalised people in society. The Trust promotes social justice through grant making, research, influencing public opinion and policy and supporting local communities. The Trust was founded in 1920 by Barrow Cadbury and his wife Geraldine Southall Cadbury.
The Barrow Cadbury Trust is seeking new applications for funding from organisations who are looking to set up projects that are focussed on young people through their transition to adulthood (17-24). Projects must be rooted in local communities and address the underlying causes of crime.
The Trust wants to support groups that take a long term view about working with disadvantaged young people, recognising that change may take time and that improving life chances can take many forms. It is expected that the young people will play an active role in the funded projects.
While the trust is seeking to fund criminal justice related projects that address the needs of all young people, it will also be interested to receive applications for projects that have a specific focus on the distinct needs of young women.
The trust intends to support a small number of projects, with potential grant awards in the range of £10k-£15k per year for up to 3 years. Projects must be new initiatives, and not an extension of an existing service nor for the replacement of existing funding streams.
You can only apply for this programme if your project is based in Birmingham or the Black Country (Wolverhampton, Dudley, West Bromwich, Smethwick, Sandwell).
The trust will consider projects that seek to reduce the risk of disadvantaged young people being involved in criminal activity, which are likely to provide one or more of the following:
- access to education, training or employment;
- peer mentoring or access to positive role models;
- work with young people to change their perspectives and behaviours;
- development of young people’s life skills and self esteem;
- enabling of conflict resolution;
- utilisation of restorative justice;
- other activities, similar to the above, where part of a wider project intended to reduce offending.
Organisations funded through this programme must be able to show that they:
- have identified the barriers to inclusion faced by the individuals with whom they are working;
- work with all sections of the community sharing those common barriers;
- are working towards long-term resolution of the causes of offending;
- seek to reduce offending;
- are able to evaluate the impact of their work.
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