National Lottery Community Fund are going to fund your project!

We want to give Young People March £69,382 over 3 years for Open Access Sessions.

The funding is going to improve:

Long-term outcomes

• Life Skills and employability improves.
• Strengthened community cohesion and social capacity.
• Lifelong learning in identifying and tackling isolation and disadvantage.
• Safer communities.
• Young people’s physical, mental health and wellbeing improved to create lasting life chances.
• People have a higher level of lifelong transferable skills through accessing the project.

Short-term outcomes

• Improve social skills, social activities and promote positive behaviours.
• Increase confidences and self-esteem through accessing support and learning programs.
• Improve personal capabilities, aspirations, and wellbeing.
• Improved access to volunteering
• Increase in lifelong friendships to reduce isolation
• Increased awareness of risk taking, to reduce substance misuse and addiction.
• Improved access to external activities and support.
• Promotion of human rights and equality to Improve confidence to speak out, especially amongst those marginalised groups.
• Achieved learning from members and volunteers which leads to transferable skills to be able to support more vulnerable and isolated young people.
• Reduced anti-social behaviours in and around the community, due to having a regular safe place to attend and being made aware of consequences through guidance learning and support.