Global majority led charities with a focus on children and young people’s issues are being urged to apply for a share of a grant funding worth £2m.

The Phoenix Way partnership, which launched during the Covid pandemic to tackle inequality, and the Youth Endowment Fund have launched this latest funding round.

The Children and Youth Round is being made available to global majority led charities and those that work with global majority communities, including young people at high risk of becoming involved with violence.

Applicants must be based in England or Wales and have annual operating budgets of up to £150,000 a year.

The previous funding round made available through the Phoenix Way and the Youth Endowment Fund was for emergency funding in May this year. This offered £20,000 in unrestricted funding to help groups survive the cost-of-living crisis.

“The YEF is investing £10 million in The Phoenix Way, as part of our commitment to ensure our funding is accessible to organisations led by – and working for – people from Black, Asian and other minority backgrounds,” said Youth Endowment Fund executive director Jon Yates.

Phoenix Way convening partner Yvonne Field, who is chief executive and founder of the Ubele Initiative, added: “I am pleased that we are using a participatory approach as our communities are often excluded from grant making and are unable to influence the design and/or decision-making processes.

"The significant response that we have received to these targeted funding rounds demonstrates that Black and racially minoritised communities are not actually hard to reach at all. We have to speak to these communities directly and involve them in decision-making.”

The deadline for applications is 3 December.

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