25th January 2022
About the DCMS Youth Investment Fund
The aim of the Youth Investment Fund (YIF) is to create, expand and improve local youth facilities and their services, in order to drive positive outcomes for young people, including improved health and wellbeing, and skills for work/employability and life.
BBC Children in Need was selected to distribute phase 1 of this funding on behalf of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Applications can be submitted from 31 January 2022.
Phase 1 comprises £10m for youth provision in left-behind areas of England, and is funding for small-scale capital projects, including capital equipment, small redevelopments and other capital projects that can be delivered within the 21/22 financial year (by 31 March 2022).
Please check the guidance below carefully. The requirements and eligibility for this fund are different than those of BBC Children in Need funding programmes.
https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/grants/dcms-youth-investment-fund/