LIVE UnLtd have teamed up with the Steve Redgrave Fund to create Your Call Your Community. The Steve Redgrave Fund aims to use the power of sport and sporting activity to bring about positive change in the lives of disadvantaged children, young people and their communities.
Your Call Your Community is a chance to change your community for the better. This could be reopening a disused space to do something creative, promoting health and fitness through the power of sport, or running an event which brings different people in your area together.
UnLtd will be awarding small value awards to allow young people to deliver Ambassador programmes in their communities alongside a support package from UnLtd to build up the leadership skills of the individual. UnLtd will make awards to young people to tackle problems in the community.
There will be a selection of awards available:
Tester: Award value up to £500. These Awards will be for young people to test out running a project for the first time.
Try it: Award value up to £2000. These Awards will be for young people who have already tested a project/idea and are ready to develop it further.
Basic Eligibility:
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11 – 21 years of age
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Living in the UK
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Applying as an individual or informal group, with their own idea. This means they cannot apply on behalf of an organisation. For example a school, youth club or youth centre
Applications must meet the following criteria:
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Have a positive social impact on the community
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Has identified a problem and can explain how the project would tackle the problem
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Tell us what specific activities the project includes and what they hope to achieve
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Provide a learning experience or opportunity for the young person
Applications will not be for:
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Paid employment
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Political campaigning or the advancement of a religion
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Activities outside the law, against public policy, or anything that fosters ethnic, religious or commercial disharmony
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Living expenses
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Undertaking academic qualifications
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Employing others to run the project
Application deadline is Monday 1st October 2012 at 9am. Online application: www.liveunltd.com/ycyc.
For further information: www.liveunltd.com/faq or contact Ashley Whittley at ashleywhittley@unltd.org.uk or via mobile phone on 075 4593 3823.