Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support charities and community interest companies working with young people aged between 10 and 30 and help to build monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity and achieve the following aims:
- Funded organisations are more confident they are collecting the right data to make informed decisions on programme delivery, staff resourcing, cost-effectiveness, and making a case for fundraising and communicating work externally.
- Funded organisations are more confident their programmes are being delivered well and effectively.
- Funding organisations have improved their capabilities around making the best use of data available to them. This could be measured through an organisational baseline and grant end data skills and capacity assessment as part of this grant programme.
- Funded organisations are better positioned to carry out periodic or ongoing evaluations of their services based on their own good quality data.
- Funded organisations have more reliable information about their work and its effectiveness, making them more credible to other charities, funders, and policymakers.
Who can apply? UK-registered charities and community interest companies (CICs) with an income of above £250,000 and two years of published accounts can apply.
Groups must also:
- Work exclusively with young people.
- Deliver direct mental health support (therapy or activities socially prescribed for young people experiencing anxiety or depression as mental health support).
- Already collect mental health or well-being data.
Grant amount: A total of £1 million is available.
Around five or six grants are available.
Grants start from £10,000. There is no maximum amount, however, the Trust is less likely to consider requests over £300,000.
Application process: There is a two-stage application process:
- Groups must first submit an Expression of Interest form. The deadline for first-stage applications is 3 March 2025 (16:00).
- Successful applicants will then be invited to complete a full second-stage application. The deadline to complete a second-stage application is 6 May 2025 (16:00).
Information webinars will be held on the following dates:
- 13 February 2025 (10:00).
- 20 February 2025 (15:00).
Guidance notes and an Expression of Interest form are available from the Prudence Trust website.
Deadline: Monday 3 March 2025, (16:00).
Contact information: Email: grants@theprudencetrust.org