Funder's logos including #iwill, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, National Lottery Community Fund and Coop Foundation.

 

 

About Co-op Foundation

  • Co-op Foundation is the Co-op’s charity, helping communities UK-wide work together to make things better.
  • Co-op Foundation is the leading charity tackling youth loneliness in the UK. By 2021, its Belong programme will:
    • Connect and empower at least 7,500 young people to take action to tackle loneliness
    • Strengthen local youth services that provide vital support and opportunities
    • Engage at least 25,000 young people in a national conversation that breaks down the stigma of youth loneliness.
  • Co-op Foundation empowered young people to create the Lonely, Not Alone campaign to help everyone show they care about youth loneliness.
  • coopfoundation.org.uk
  • The Co-op Foundation will launch further rounds of #iwill Fund grants in early 2020, focusing on peer support for young people going through bereavement and for those moving from primary to secondary school.
  • Subscribe to the Co-op Foundation blog to find out first when funding applications open: coopfoundation.org.uk/blog

About the #iwill Fund

  • The #iwill Fund is made possible thanks to £40 million joint investment from The National Lottery Community Fund and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to support young people to access high quality social action opportunities.
  • The #iwill Fund brings together a group of organisations who all contribute funding to embed meaningful social action into the lives of young people.
  • The #iwill Fund supports the aims of the #iwill campaign – to make involvement in social action a part of life for young people, by recognising the benefit for both young people and their communities.
  • By bringing together funders from across different sectors and by making sure that young people have a say in where the funding goes – the #iwill Fund is taking a collaborative approach.

About the #iwill campaign

  • The #iwill campaign is a collective effort involving over 900 partners from across the public, voluntary, education and business sectors with a vision to make meaningful social action part of life for 10- to 20-year olds by the year 2020, wherever they live and whatever their background.
  • The #iwill campaign was launched in 2013 with cross-party and multi-sector support after research into how the business, education, public and voluntary sectors could support young people to engage in social action. The campaign is coordinated by Step Up To Serve, a charity registered in England & Wales (no. 1154588).
  • HRH The Prince of Wales is Patron of Step Up To Serve and the #iwill campaign. For more information, visit iwill.org.uk and follow @iwill_campaign

About the National Lottery Community Fund

  • We are the largest community funder in the UK – we’re proud to award money raised by National Lottery players to communities across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Since June 2004, we have made over 200,000 grants and awarded over £9 billion to projects that have benefited millions of people.
  • We are passionate about funding great ideas that matter to communities and make a difference to people’s lives. At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when people are in the lead, communities thrive. Thanks to the support of National Lottery players, our funding is open to everyone. We’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of local groups right up to UK-wide charities, enabling people and communities to bring their ambitions to life.
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