What you get:
" A grant to get you going of up to £5,000
" Support to help you plan your project, research your budget, set goals and learn about your community.
Past awards have included funding for start up youth cafes, asylum seekers improving perceptions in the community through photographic exhibitions, community radio stations, and organic gardens kept for and by young people with mental health problems.
 
Projects must:
" be run and managed by young people between the ages of 14-25
" clearly benefit the local community
" benefit the young people running the project, and
" be a new or developing project
 
The following are not eligible:
" Expeditions or overseas travel
" Fundraising activities for charity
" Trips and outings, unless they have educational value 
 
You must be either:
" Aged 14-16, and achieving or at risk of achieving less than 5 GCSEs grades A* - C, or
" Aged 16 - 25 and not in education, training or work (or working less than 16 hours a week).
 
Key facts
Over 9,000 young people have received a Community Cash Award to date.
" Recent evaluations of the programme found that:
" 75% of award recipients are now in employment, education or training.
" 87% of award recipients have developed new skills through running their community project.
" 95% of award recipients felt they had achieved their goals

To register your interest contact Amanda Graham at the Prince's Trust:
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London and South East Region
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Hove BN3 3AW
Tel: 01273 723399
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