Funding opportunities
Here’s a list of our upcoming, open and closed funding rounds.
Open rounds
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Open Call
Grant:Open Call
This is an ongoing call for proposals from delivery organisations working to prevent children from becoming involved in violence.
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Open Call
Grant:Evaluator Open Call
This call for proposals is for evaluators who have identified a intervention aimed at preventing children from becoming involved in crime and violence and is ready for a rigorous evaluation.
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Open Call
Grant:Multi-Site Trial Open Call
This open call invites evaluators to propose the design and delivery of a multi-site trial for an intervention aimed at preventing children from becoming involved in crime and violence or supporting those already in the youth justice system.
Currently paused
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Targeted projects
Grant:Targeted projects
Our targeted projects funding is for programmes that don’t fit into our themed rounds or place-based funding, but are widely used or promising with the potential to scale.
Closed rounds
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Themed grant round
Grant:Psychological Therapies
This grant round focuses on psychological therapies delivered to children who are at risk of becoming involved in crime and violence or those already involved in the youth justice system.
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Themed grant round
Grant:Testing for impact
We are specifically looking to fund programmes that are well-established and ready for an efficacy evaluation.
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Themed grant round
Grant:Positive activities
We’re looking to learn more about the impact of the arts, sports and wilderness and adventure activities on reducing violent offending behaviours for children and young people who have been – or are at high-risk of being – affected by violence, offending and/or exploitation.
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Place-based grant round
Grant:Agency Collaboration Fund: A supportive home
In the second grant round of our Agency Collaboration Fund, the theme will be family support. We plan to fund and evaluate multi-agency support projects for children at risk of extra-familial harm.
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Race Equity Fund
Grant:The Phoenix Way – Children and Youth Emergency Round
Emergency grants for groups working with children and young people from Black, Asian and other minority backgrounds.
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Themed grant round
Grant:A trusted adult
We’re looking to fund and evaluate projects where trusted adult relationships – outside of the family environment – is a defining or core feature of their work to improve outcomes for children and young people who have been or are at high-risk of being affected by violence, offending and/or exploitation.
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Targeted projects
Grant:Trauma-informed practice and preventing young people from becoming involved in violence
In September 2022, we’re looking for applications for projects using trauma-informed practice approaches.
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Themed grant round
Grant:School choices: improving attendance and reducing exclusions
We’ve come together with the Education Endowment Foundation to jointly fund a grant round to find out how whole-school policies and approaches can improve attendance and reduce exclusions.
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Themed grant round
Grant:A safe, positive place to learn: improving attendance and reducing exclusions
We’ve come together with the Education Endowment Foundation to jointly fund a grant round to build evidence of what works to improve attendance and reduce exclusions.
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Place-based grant round
Grant:Agency Collaboration Fund: Another chance
In the first grant round of our Agency Collaboration Fund we’re investing in a multi-agency approach which research has shown to be particularly effective at reducing violent crime: focused deterrence.
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Themed grant round
Grant:A supportive home – Helping families to overcome challenges
Our September 2021 themed grant round, in partnership with Comic Relief.
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Themed grant round
Grant:Another chance – Diversion from the criminal justice system
We know that sometimes, children need another chance: alternatives to arrest, conviction and custody. Diversion programmes help them do that.
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Themed grant round
Grant:COVID-19 grant round
We launched our COVID-19 grant round in response to the pandemic. We had two aims. Firstly, to provide targeted support to young people at-risk of being drawn into violent crime. Secondly, to learn fast about the best ways to reach vulnerable young people during a period of social distancing.
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Themed grant round
Grant:Capacity building round
Following the Launch grant round, we awarded 45 organisations capacity building grants, totalling £2m. Each received support from one of our learning partners to improve how they demonstrate and articulate their impact.
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Themed grant round
Grant:Launch grant round
We launched our first grant round in May 2019, awarding a total of £18.1m to 24 projects, working with 36,000 children across England and Wales.