If you are 13-19 years old and live, work or study in Richmond Upon Thames you can get awarded from Ł200-Ł5000 by the Youth Opportunity Fund or Youth Capital Fund (a.k.a. Pounds 4 Young People) to help your ideas get off the ground. For example, we might be able to help if you have an idea for a karate class, sports league, music event, something for the disabled community, an idea to make the area safe, refurbish an area or anything else that will benefit young people in Richmond Borough.

In march 2005 a series of meetings took place with young people, counsellors and workers in the young peoples services. A report on Richmond’s children, young people’s priorities and their involvement in the services they received was put together. This was done to get a clear view on what young people wanted. This fund helps young people have fun and develop skills for adulthood, getting them involved with community and society to prevent them from engaging in anti-social behavior. The Youth Capital Fund would be ideally for the projects that need bigger bids. All you have to do is follow the terms and conditions when you apply. So get involved! Get in touch with your local branch.

Terms and Conditions:

The project must be young person led. Funding is to be used in accordance with young people, where young peoples wishes cannot be accommodated an explanation should be given to them
Priority will be given to projects that will help local arising issues
Branches will help assist young people with keeping receipts and records of monies spent
Young people must take part in training provided to help assist in delivering projects
There must not be any duplication when creating projects with other occurring ones in the borough
There must be two or more applying for funding