The Youth Investment Fund (YIF) is over £300m of capital and revenue grants, funded by the UK Government. The Youth Investment Fund is now closed to new applications.
The Youth Investment Fund is a commitment to young people to transform and level up the out-of-school youth sector. It will provide truly innovative youth facilities in levelling up priority areas, and early-stage/seed resource funding to underpin them, enabling more positive activities that deliver improved outcomes for young people.
Phase 1 was launched in January by Children in Need on behalf of the UK Government delivering £12 million of funding for small-scale projects and Phase 2 is a fund to deliver grants for up to 300 youth services across England.
You can find out more about some of the youth service projects funded by the Youth Investment Fund here.
The Youth Investment Fund has been very popular and heavily oversubscribed, and we have funded some fantastic projects which will support thousands of young people to have improved mental and physical wellbeing, and skills for life and work. Given the remaining life of the grant programme and the deadline for spending the funds and completing projects, the Youth Investment Fund is now closed to new applications.
Over the coming months we will share more news about Youth Investment Fund awards to youth service projects across England.
