Youth

Charities committed to supporting, developing and improving opportunities for young people up to the age of 25 are all eligible to apply to the Awards.

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42nd Street
42nd Street

42nd Street is an innovative young people's mental health charity committed to supporting young people aged 11-25 who are experiencing ...

Active Fusion
Active Fusion

Active Fusion’s mission is to help every child develop a love for being active by unlocking potential and creating positive habits for life. It ...

Adoption Matters
Adoption Matters

Adoption Matters is a children's charity and voluntary adoption agency established in 1947. Children are at the heart of all the charity does. Its ...

Blackburn Youth Zone
Blackburn Youth Zone

Blackburn Youth Zone is an independent charity, which opened in 2012, under the umbrella of the OnSide Youth Zones network as public, private and ...

Cardiff City FC Community Foundation
Cardiff City FC Community Foundation

The Cardiff City FC Community Foundation is the official charity of Cardiff City FC. Its goal is to support children, young people and families to ...

Cramlington Voluntary Youth Project
Cramlington Voluntary Youth Project

We offer a range of opportunities to further the social and personal development of young people.

Drop Zone Youth Projects
Drop Zone Youth Projects

Drop Zone Youth Projects provides safe and supportive environments for young people to thrive. It aims is to motivate young people in order to ...

Eagle's Nest Project
Eagle's Nest Project

Eagle’s Nest Project is a charity set up to provide alternative education solutions for young people on the margins of mainstream. The charity ...

Focus Charity
Focus Charity

Focus supports up to 500 young people from some of the most deprived communities in Leicester each year. Their philosophy is ...

Fumble
Fumble

Fumble supports young people & the trusted adults around them, through:

  1. Its co-creation programme of its resources, which ...

Grace House North East
Grace House North East

Grace House North East is a charity based in Southwick, Sunderland; providing support to disabled children, young people, and their families. The ...

Greater Manchester Youth Network (GMYN)
Greater Manchester Youth Network (GMYN)

GMYN is a dynamic youth charity that delivers inspiring development and learning programmes for disadvantaged young people and infrastructure ...

Groundwork North Wales
Groundwork North Wales

Groundwork North Wales improves the social, economic, environmental and cultural wellbeing of people across North Wales, focusing on disadvantaged ...

Hope Support Service
Hope Support Service

Hope helps young people who have a family member diagnosed with a life-limiting illness feel in control of their lives, stay connected to their ...

Hull Children's University
Hull Children's University

Hull Children's University works to raise children’s aspirations and educational achievement by providing high quality, exciting and innovative ...

IMO Charity
IMO Charity

Inspire Motivate Overcome (IMO) is a community third sector organisation, based in Blackburn with Darwen, East Lancashire. IMO is a registered ...

Kids Kabin
Kids Kabin

Kids Kabin enables young people in Newcastle and Middlesbrough to learn and grow through creative and practical education. Young people learn new ...

Growth Path
Growth Path

Growth Path supports young people aged 16 – 25, not in education, employment or training, to thrive. Through its programme it helps young people ...

Malvern Special Families
Malvern Special Families

Malvern Special Families provides clubs and play schemes for children and young people with disabilities aged between 5 and 19 in Malvern and ...

Mentor Link
Mentor Link

Mentor Link provides one to one social and emotional support to vulnerable and distressed children and young people in the West Midlands. They ...

New Roots
New Roots

New Roots works with some of the most disadvantaged children and young people in Bassetlaw. Their needs are very complex and they have often ...

Northumberland Clubs for Young People Ltd (NCYP)
Northumberland Clubs for Young People Ltd (NCYP)

Northumberland Clubs for Young People Ltd, formally the Northumberland Boys Clubs is an organisation that supports the development and directly ...

Ocean Youth Trust North
Ocean Youth Trust North

We seek to inspire disadvantaged young people, irrespective of their backgrounds and abilities, to rise above domestic difficulties and broaden ...

Pentabus Arts Ltd
Pentabus Arts Ltd

Pentabus is the nation’s rural theatre company and are a champion for rural young people aged 14 to 25. They tour new plays about the contemporary ...

Ricnic
Ricnic

RicNic is a theatre charity which aims to empower young people by providing free access to theatre arts projects. RicNic was established by ...

Rochdale Connections Trust
Rochdale Connections Trust

Rochdale Connections Trust was established over 20 years ago by local magistrates who kept seeing young people coming through the courts that were ...

Safe and Sound Homes
Safe and Sound Homes

We prevent vulnerable young people from becoming homeless by offering them a room in a volunteer's home. We work with young people at times of ...

Salford Foundation
Salford Foundation

Salford Foundation provides education, training and intensive support to children, young people and adults in Salford, Greater Manchester and the ...

Sheena Amos Youth Trust
Sheena Amos Youth Trust

The Sheena Amos Youth Trust (SAYiT) is a registered independent charity running in Sheffield since 1999. It provides support and social ...

Skipton Extended Learning for All
Skipton Extended Learning for All

Skipton Extended Learning for All supports 300 children each year in Skipton and North Yorkshire to improve self-confidence, self-esteem and ...

Souster Youth
Souster Youth

Founded in 2015, the Souster Youth Trust has a mission to support the social, emotional and spiritual wellbeing of young people aged 11-19 in ...

Sport 4 Life UK
Sport 4 Life UK

Sport 4 Life’s mission is to create a better future for unemployed and socially excluded young people (aged 12 – 25) in Birmingham, by improving ...

Staying Put
Staying Put

Staying Put is a domestic and sexual abuse charity. Its purpose is to challenge violence and abuse wherever and whenever we see it and it's ...

The Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of Wales
The Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of Wales

The Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of Wales is a national voluntary youth work organisation that supports young people in Wales to fulfil their potential. ...

The Children’s Foundation
The Children’s Foundation

The Children’s Foundation exists to improve the health and well-being of children and young people in the North East by making serious stuff fun! ...

The Enthusiasm Trust
The Enthusiasm Trust

The Enthusiasm Trust is an award-winning youth charity providing prevention, early intervention and support for disadvantaged young people growing ...

The Exodus Project
The Exodus Project

For over 20 years, Exodus has been positively impacting the lives of children and young people growing up in less advantaged communities. It has ...

Wyre Forest Nightstop
Wyre Forest Nightstop

Wyre Forest Nightstop and Mediation Scheme is a small, local charity covering Worcestershire that provides safe, emergency accommodation with ...

YMCA Humber
YMCA Humber

YMCA Humber is a youth charity that services the communities of North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and Hull. It specialises in supported ...

YMCA North Tyneside
YMCA North Tyneside

YMCA North Tyneside is a charity that has been dedicated to strengthening people in its local community since 1879. It enables people to develop ...

Youth Leads UK
Youth Leads UK

Youth Leads UK has a vision of a country where youth leads - where young people feel listened to, part of their communities, and ready to make a ...

M13 Youth Project
M13 Youth Project

M13 Youth Project is dedicated to ...

The Toy Library
The Toy Library

The Toy Library supports families to advance the healthy development of their children. The charity increases wellbeing and good mental health by ...

Rekindle
Rekindle

Rekindle is the only charity in Mid ...

Youth Cymru
Youth Cymru

Youth Cymru is a charity empowering ...