Seed funding grants and support for early-stage social enterprises to establish their own non-profit ventures. These have the potential to provide solutions to intractable social problems faced by disadvantaged and socially marginalised young people.
The Shackleton Foundation aims to improve the lives of disadvantaged young people by supporting ambitious and inspirational leaders with innovative and scalable social ideas who are seen as high risk but also with high potential. The proposed projects should be long-lasting and far-reaching with the potential to provide solutions to intractable social problems faced by young people.
Successful applicants can expect to receive assistance with the practical aspects of starting up a social venture. These include:
- Seed funding: a single grant of £15,000 to get the idea started (and should be at least 25% or more of the total annual project cost).
- Mentoring from existing Leaders.
- Access to quarterly advice surgeries and an annual Leaders Forum.
- Awareness building for the venture.
- Introductions to potential second stage funders.
They support a range of costs across the following sectors: education; life skills and employability; physical and mental health; youth offending; and community and social welfare.
The funders are looking for:
- An idea/project in its early stage.
- An idea/project that makes a positive difference to the lives of disadvantaged young people.
- Applications showing leadership, innovation, enterprise, inspiration, ambition, endurance and courage.
Ideas must:
- Be innovative and fresh.
- Fulfil a clear need and demand.
- Be in the first year of development.
- Have a real social impact.
- Have well-defined outputs and goals.
- Have the potential for real growth and sustainability.
- The beneficiaries of the work must be young people (0-25) based in the UK.
The next closing dates is 2nd November