Funding opportunities

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.

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.

We are specifically looking to fund programmes that are well-established and ready for an efficacy evaluation.

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.

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.

Emergency grants for groups working with children and young people from Black, Asian and other minority backgrounds.

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.

In September 2022, we’re looking for applications for projects using trauma-informed practice approaches.

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.

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.

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.