Funding to build the evidence on how to support young people facing significant barriers to work to develop essential employment skills and ultimately access good jobs.
Key Criteria
This is a new fund to build high-quality evidence on how best to support those young people aged 16-24 who face significant barriers to work to develop essential employment skills and ultimately access good jobs. Under the new Essential Employment Skills Fund, the Nuffield Foundation is offering grants of up to £500k to evaluate UK programmes, share learning and inform the wider scaling-up of effective practice.
There is also potential to provide additional funding towards the costs of programme delivery where this is not covered from other sources, including through partnership funding models.
UK-based organisationsrunning programmes that support young people aged 16-24 (or a narrower age group within that range, such as 16-19 year olds) living in the UK can apply.
Programmes must have an explicit focus on developing at least one essential employment skill among the young people participating, although most programmes are likely to address more than one.
There is a a two-stage application process. Applicants submit a short outline application, and those that meet the criteria are invited to submit a full application.
Where an application costs over £500,000, they recommend that applicants contact them to discuss the application before applying.
