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Youth Voice Conference 2023 Booking Details
We are delighted to announce that booking is now live for 2023 Youth Voice Conference.
Violence & Vulnerability Community Grants 2024-2025
We are very excited to announce the launch of the V & V Community Grants funding for 2024-2025.
The 2024-2025 V&V Community Grant round is for local ‘not-for-profit’ voluntary or community clubs or organisations based in, and therefore delivering in, Essex, Southend and Thurrock only.
Looking to fund projects working with children/families/young people and young adults (Families must include work with children, young people or young adults aged 0-24 years), that meet the stated aims of the V & V Partnership and can run during April 2024 to 31st December 2025, commencing no later than 1st September 2024.
Projects MUST also evidence they are meeting specific needs as highlighted on an area by area basis by young people in our Listening Project 2022-23. It is essential that you read and reference the Listening Project report as we are keen that the interventions are based on what local young people are telling us they need. https://ecvys.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/vvu-youth-voices-report-2022-2023-final-pdf.pdf
We would especially like to see some applications for creative work around risk taking behaviours.
Applications open: 17th July 2023
Applications close: 12 noon on 29th September 2023
For more information and to apply see our ‘funding new’ page:
ECVYS are looking for a part-time Youth Researcher to join their small but brilliant team!
Have a look at our page https://ecvys.org.uk/ecvys-youth-voices/ to find out more about the role
NEW Violence & Vulnerability ‘Secondary prevention fund’
We are pleased to announce the launch of the VVU’s ‘secondary prevention workstream fund’
This is an exciting new fund from the VVU, with a potential pot of £380,000 dedicated to supporting and providing interventions for children, young people & families who are at risk of being involved in criminality and exploitation through factors that make them *more vulnerable than their peers
This fund has two rounds; Round one will fund work taking place from January 2023, and round 2.) will fund work taking place from April 2023- March 2024. For more information, see our ‘funding news’ page https://ecvys.org.uk/funding-news/
Youth Voices Project 2022/3
We are delighted to again be working with the VVU on the new Youth Voices Project. This helps inform policymakers of the issues and concerns affecting young people across the county. The results of past youth voices projects, married with the VVU business case and priorities for work, help to direct resources to the areas of Essex that need direct intervention and immediate support the most. This year we are looking for five groups from each district to participate in the project. Groups can take part if they run youth sessions with young people aged 11-25yrs as a part of an officially recognised charity or organisation, and have at least 15 young people (although smaller groups could join together to take part). We have designed a question-and-answer session that uses games to promote discussion around each question. Groups that take part will receive a £90 donation, a way of us investing back into the voluntary sector and thanking those who take part. Funding is limited, so all groups need to have confirmed their place by emailing rachel@ecvys.org.uk as soon as possible.
VVU Community Grants launch 2022-2024
We are very excited to announce the launch of the VVU Community Grants funding for 2022-2024.
As a partnership, our strategic goal is to reduce serious violence, the harm it causes, and to safeguard those at risk (relating to county lines, gangs and knife crime). We recognise that local organisations and groups are at the forefront of some amazing work that takes place to address these issues and we would like to support this work further as much as we can.
Our 2022-2024 VVCS grant round is for local *’not for profit’ voluntary or community clubs or organisations based in (and therefore delivering in) Essex, Southend and Thurrock only, and we are looking to fund projects that meet our stated aims and can run from April 2023- 31st March 2024.
Groups can apply for up to **£20,000 to deliver support and interventions for children, young people, young adults and families (families must include children and young people, and ‘young person’ is defined as up to the age of 25). Projects must demonstrate how they have a positive impact on issues relating to crime and anti-social behaviour and violence and vulnerability. This may include early intervention work, gang & ‘county lines’, and child criminal exploitation projects.
**Our grants funding this year has a total pot of just under £156,000 that we will look to distribute as evenly as possible across the 12 ECC districts/ Quadrants plus Southend & Thurrock. Please bear this is mind when completing your applications.
We would be particularly interested in projects that can evidence they are meeting needs as highlighted by young people and local residents in our Listening Project 2021-2022.
You can read the full report here https://ecvys.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/vvu-listening-2021-2022-youth-report-final.pdf The report only focuses on 7 Districts in Essex, but the fund is open to all (including Southend & Thurrock). Some examples of need highlighted in the report are-
• Indoor/ outdoor safe spaces with affordable & inclusive activities for young people to socialise (this can include a one off cost for lighting the outside of voluntary group spaces to create a safer space for young people, additional staff or youth activities).
• Opportunities for young people to learn life skills, participate in community based or volunteering projects and undertake work experience
• Work with young people and their families to raise awareness of youth violence
• Projects that promote greater communication and positive engagement between the police, youth groups and schools
• Targeted youth work aimed at those young people most at risk of exploitation
• Support for victims of youth violence
• Drugs education in informal settings or led by voluntary groups in schools with evidenced links to how drug use relates to young people becoming involved in serious violence
The fund is open to work of all ages from 0-25 but we would especially like to see some applications for creative work around risk taking behaviours with primary school age children and their families.
Please do read the listening report and try to evidence the need for your intervention within your application, referencing the listening report or local needs if your district is not one of the 7 listed.
All applications must demonstrate how their project enables children & young people to-
• Make positive choices that keep them safe
• Raise self-esteem and confidence
• Build resilience
• Improve emotional and physical health and mental wellbeing
• Have a letter of support from the local CSP
*PLEASE NOTE THAT: Your organisation MUST have a recognised constitution and be a- not for profit voluntary or community club or organisation, a registered Charity, A not for profit company or community interest company or other social enterprise. company limited by guarantee, charitable incorporated organisation or Registered society.
If you have any questions about this grant process, then please contact Rachel Brett rachel@ecvys.org.uk or Jim Pearson james.pearson@essex.gov.uk
| Timeline of grant process: |
| Applications open: 15th August 2022 Applications close: 31st October 2022 Completed applications to be sent to rachel@ecvys.org.uk and james.pearson@essex.gov.uk Short listing, due diligence checks and final panel decisions will happen from November 2022-February 2023 Applicants made aware of grant decisions: End of February 2023 Funds to be with groups For the project start date in April 2023 |
To download an application form with further guidance on applying please click the link below:
You can also apply online using this link https://forms.gle/qLaoT2atPZMvrioD8 (please note though that any due diligence forms requested will need to be emailed separately to Rachel and Jim (emails above).
Work for ECVYS as our Partnership & Projects Manager
This is an exciting new role to develop the work of ECVYS and to work closely with the Essex Violence and Vulnerability Unit (VVU) for the shared purpose to further develop & amplify the voice, presence and joint working of the voluntary youth sector in Essex, Southend & Thurrock.
We are looking for a dynamic and creative networker with an organised and analytical mind-set who has experience of the voluntary sector in Essex and grant management, and who would like to be a part of this exciting new role with ECVYS.
The contract is initially for 3yrs and will be home based but with travel across Essex, Southend & Thurrock.
Please find the full j.d and application details below or email rachel@ecvys.org.uk if you have any questions. Thank you for your interest in this position.
Essex Council for Voluntary Youth Services 