Young People And Education
How You Can Help
County Durham Foundation would like to help more groups working with young
people to achieve their true potential. In order to do this, we need to raise
significant funding to meet the challenges ahead.
We are encouraging people to:
- Set up an endowment fund, or leave a legacy,
which can either contribute towards our Young People and Education
Fund, or be adapted to suit your own personal interests with you
being involved directly in the decision-making.
- Join our Young Ventures Team.
If you wish to contribute towards our Young People and Education Fund, we
will support the following:
- Grants to groups and projects:
Voluntary sector organisations, charities, schools, further education colleges
and other agencies working directly with disadvantaged young people (aged
up to 25) for non-statutory activity that will:
Pilot innovative new schemes that tangibly improve young peoples lives
and expectations, helping them to:
- Be healthy.
- Access more education and learning,
particularly encouraging marginalised or disengaged young people to
get involved in activities that will improve self-esteem, help them
to achieve, offer new opportunities and experiences whilst increasing
their aspirations.
- Become an active citizen and make a positive contribution
to society.
- Stay safe and avoid harm.
Demonstrate active learning from the pilot that can be
applied elsewhere and have an idea of how to achieve this.
Achieve a multi-agency approach to their work.
- Grants to individuals: A bursary
programme to support young people from a disadvantaged background and low-income
families:
- To attend further education or to access learning opportunities.
- To further an exceptional talent or skill.
- We will also set up a new Young Ventures Team,
to offer mentoring and support to groups.
We are looking to recruit a team of entrepreneurs and business people to
give their time and a small amount of money to work together over a 12-month
period with 3 individual organisations of their choice. They will review
the organisations development and give advice and guidance on how it can
become more successful, and in particular more sustainable. County Durham
Foundation will use the information gained during this process to provide
case studies and lessons learned for other organisations and stakeholder
agencies.
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