The National Lottery Community Fund has funding available through its Million Hours Fund for 2025 to 2027. This funding is for organisations to provide extra hours of youth work in areas with high levels of anti-social behaviour. Only projects in certain areas can be funded – see below for a list of the eligible wards in Devon.
Grants of between £30,000 and £100,000 are available.
Your project must:
- work with young people at risk of taking part in anti-social behaviour
- deliver more hours of youth work than you do now
- involve young people in deciding how your project works
- be open to as wide a range of young people as possible
- be run by trusted adults
The aim of the funding is to provide extra hours of youth work so that young people have improved emotional wellbeing, improved skills and feel safer. The funding can be used for activities such as arts, learning and sports as well as for mentoring and developing social or life skills.
Applications can be made by not-for-profit companies limited by guarantee, CIOs, CICs, registered co-operatives or CBSs, schools and statutory bodies (including local authorities, town, parish or community councils).
Your work must benefit young people from one or more of the eligible ward areas. In Devon, these are:
Barnstaple Central, Bideford North, Bushell (Newton Abbot), Ilfracombe East, as well as wards in Exeter (Duryard & St James, Newtown & St Leonard’s, Pinhoe and St David’s), Torbay (Barton with Watcombe, Roundham with Hyde, St Marychurch and Tormohun) and Plymouth (Compton, Devonport, Drake, Honicknowle, Moor View, Plymstock Radford, St Budeaux, St Peter and the Waterfront, Stoke, Sutton and Mount Gould).
Focus of fund/fund aims:
Funding for organisations to provide extra support to young people in areas with higher rates of anti-social behaviour
Application deadline:
22 October 2025
Fund description:
https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/million-hours