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The Heritage Lottery Fund has re-launched its Young Roots grants programme, aimed at providing young people aged between 11 and 25 years-old with active roles in planning and delivering their own heritage projects. The rolling programme, which has an annual budget of £4million, awards grants of between £10,000 and £50,000. For further information visit www.hlf.org.uk/YoungRoots.
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The Ernest Cook Trust offers grants of between £100 and £50,000 to support land-based learning for children and young people and projects wishing to encourage young people's interest either in the countryside and the environment or the arts or aiming to raise levels of literacy and numeracy. For further information visit www.ernestcooktrust.org.uk.
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The Yapp Charitable Trust aims to make grants totalling £300,000 to about 100 small registered charities each year to sustain their existing work, with one of its priorities being children and young people aged 5 - 25. Grants are normally for a maximum of £3,000 and prioritise on-going needs. For further information visit www.yappcharitabletrust.org.uk.
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Carnegie UK has launched a new plan to apply new ideas and young minds to the towns challenge. TestTown is a new competition for young people throughout the UK aged between 16 and 25 to put forward their own ground-breaking ideas to redesign the future UK high street. The top 10 finalist teams with the most exciting ideas will be shortlisted in April with the climax of the competition taking place across three days in Dunfermline, Scotland this June. The winners, who do the best job of turning their ideas into reality, will receive £10,000 to take their idea to market for real. The deadline for applications is 3 May 2013. For further information visit www.testtown.org.uk.
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The Live UnLtd programmed has grants of up to £5,000 available to help young people aged 11 - 21 turn an idea to make the world a better place into a reality. Non-financial support is also available and can include budgeting advice, networking opportunities, governance issues and working with volunteers. For further information visit http://liveunltd.com/apply.
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vInspired Cashpoint has reopened and is offering grants of up to £500 for 14- 25 year olds to run volunteering projects in their communities. They are looking to support exciting and creative project ideas from young people, the project ideas must originate from young people and any funding will be paid directly to them. For further information visit www.vinspired.com/cashpoint.
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The Wessex Youth Trust is interested in supporting projects providing opportunities to help, support and advance children and young people. Preference is given to pump-priming projects for development and more extensive fundraising initiatives. There is no minimum or maximum level of grant is specified and the deadlines for applications are 1 May and 1 November. For further information visit www.wessexyouthtrust.org.uk.
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Action 4.5 of Youth in Action aims to support information activities for young people and those active in youth work and youth organisations. Projects should promote information and communication within the framework of the European Year of Citizens and elections to the European Parliament in 2014. The deadline for applications is 27 June and a total of €2.04 million is available with a maximum of €120,000 available in the UK and only one project will be supported per Member State. For further information visit http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/youth/funding/2013/call_action_4_5_en.php.
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The European Network of Foundations for Social Economy prize for youth employment in the social economy aims to identify and encourage exemplary entrepreneurial initiatives which can be deployed in other European countries as well. The winning enterprise will receive a prize of €5,000 and the deadline for applications is 15 May. For further information visit http://www.pefondes.eu/spip.php?page=article&id_article=184&id_rubrique=38&parent=25.
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The British Record Industry Trust (BRIT Trust) aims to encourage young people in the exploration and pursuit of educational, cultural or therapeutic benefits emanating from music. The Trust does not consider individual grants, scholarships or capital grants or grant donations outside the UK, the funding amount is discretionary and applications can be submitted at any time. For further information visit www.brittrust.co.uk/funding.
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The Ironmongers' Company aims to support projects that provide opportunities for disadvantaged children and young people to fulfil their potential. Projects must consist of educational activities that develop learning, motivation and skills. The annual deadlines for applications are 31 January and 31 August and grants of up to £10,000 are available. For further information visit www.ironmongers.org/charity_organisations.htm.
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Sport England has announced an extra £24million to expand and extend its Sportivate programme. The National Lottery funding means Sportivate can continue helping 14 to 25-year-olds to get involved in sports until 2017. It has also published new figures which show that almost 190,000 young people have so far benefitted from free or discounted six-to-eight week sport courses through the programme. For further information visit www.sportengland.org/about_us/our_news/sport_england_gives_%C2%A324m_boost.aspx.
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The Prince's Countryside Fund provides grants to improve service provision in rural areas, support rural enterprise and farming businesses, and provide training opportunities for young people. The maximum level of funding for individual projects is £50,000 and the deadline for applications is Friday 18 May. For further information visit www.princescountrysidefund.org.uk/page/apply-funding.