Grants in the East Midlands

For more information about our grants programmes please visit these pages for Development Awards and Community Cash Awards.

Read below to find out what grants are available in your region.

Young people can apply if they are:

  • aged 14–16 and not expecting to achieve five GCSEs grades A-C
  • aged 16–25 and not in education, training or are working less than 16 hours a week.

 

Our priority is to help young people who are:

  • educational underachievers
  • offenders and ex-offenders
  • unemployed
  • in or leaving care

 

Development Awards

 

Funding is availble, but please contact the regional office for details about maximum award amounts.

There is specific funding available if you:

  • need help with getting into farming – course fees, equipment etc…
  • are part of a youth project (aged 14-17) doing the ‘Community Space Challenge’
  • are involved with Kickz football 
  • are an asylum seeker, refugee or from black and minority ethnic groups*

*Funding has been donated by the Islamic Development Bank and Department of Communities and Local Government

 

Community Cash Awards

 

Specific funding is available for:

  • projects using football to help the community
  • young people who are involved with Kickz football 
  • young people (aged 14-17) involved in a youth project doing the ‘Community Space Challenge’
  • projects promoting and tackling issues around anti- gun, knife and gang violence through The Ben Kinsella Fund
  • young people who are asylum seekers, refugees or from black and minority ethnic groups.*

*Funding has been donated by the Islamic Development Bank and Department of Communities and Local Government

 

For enquiries and more information please contact The Prince’s Trust on:

 

0800 842 842
webinfoem@princes-trust.org.uk

 

 

Find out more

Call 0800 842 842

Or email: webinfoem@princes-trust.org.uk

To apply

To apply for a grant, fill in the form here

Start up your own project to help promote anti-gun, knife and gang violence messages in your local community

with the Ben Kinsella Fund at The Prince’s Trust

  • The new Ben Kinsella Fund in  England (excluding the East of England) and Wales is for young people to run positive anti-knife crime activities in their local area.
  • Fifty grants are available in England and Wales.


    Find out more.
Prince's Trust grants

Prince's Trust grants

We offer two types of grant:

Development Awards are grants to help you get into education, training or employment.

Community Cash Awards are grants to help you set up a project that will benefit your community.

Cows

The Jason Kanabus Fund helps young people get established in farming

This includes:

  • growing of crops or fruit
  • rearing of livestock
  • maintenance of farmland
  • activities associated with or supporting farming