Aims/priorities: The Covid Resilience Fund is provided through a partnership between the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust and UK Youth.
The funding aims to ensure that grassroots youth organisations that have suffered due to the pandemic have the resources required to reopen or bring their level of delivery back to pre-Covid levels and ensure they have the financial means to weather future disruptions.
Who can apply: The grant can be spent on essential business expenditure that will be incurred between 1 August 2021 and 31 January 2022, such as staff salaries and fixed/operational costs, including:
- Rent.
- Utility and insurance costs.
- Facility or necessary equipment costs that will not be capitalised in the accounts.
- Core staffing costs (including youth workers).
- Equipment to ensure compliance with public health requirements.
- Professional fees (e.g. accountancy).
- Other basic expenses (e.g. travel, marketing, stationary, activity resources).
- Applications can be made for unrestricted funding.
- Organisations that are based and deliver work in England, with a turnover of less than £250,000 can apply.
- Centres that are temporarily closed due to COVID-19 may also apply.
Grant amount: Grants of up to £50,000 will help facilitate the reopening and continuation of youth provision to pre-pandemic levels. The fund will not award a grant more than 75% of an applicant’s pre-COVID annual income.
Application process: The application guidance notes, faqs, and eligibility can be found on the here
Deadline: Applications will be accepted from 1 July 2020 to 18 July 2021 (midnight).
Website address: The UK Youth Fund