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Earlier Rounds
How have funds helped young people in my area?
Click on the links below to find out about projects in your area that have been awarded money:
- Babergh District Council (Hadleigh, Sudbury)
2009-10 (Round 4)
(No applicants)
2009-10 (Round 3)
Shotley Youth Project
To provide a new young people's meeting place (shipping container converted into a youth facility) and equipment for this facility.
Awarded: £7,635 (YOF) & £10,000 (YCF)
2009-10 (Round 2)
Sudbury Young Parents Group, Sudbury
To set up a young parents group to meet on a regular basis to support each other.
Awarded: £1,938 (YOF)
EPFC, Great Cornard
To provide an 8-a-side football team (plus rolling subs) of young people in a local friendly league where everyone can play.
Awarded: £1,940 (YOF)
CO10 Wombats, Babergh
To arrange 10 different activity experiences that young people in the area would not have access to normally.
Awarded: £6,073 (YOF)
SUS Cheerleading, Sudbury
To give young people the opportunity to create a competitive cheerleading squad.
Awarded: £9,871 (YOF)
2009-10 (Round 1)
Artificial Net Practice Facility, Sudbury
To update the old net facility at the Sudbury Cricket Club and build 3 new lanes with an enclosed netted cage.
Awarded: £7,976 (YCF)
Junior Covers, Ipswich
To build on existing facilities at the Copdock & Old Ipswichian Cricket Club.
Awarded: £4,338 (YCF)
Young Filmakers, Sudbury & Gt Cornard
To run various workshops on film making in the area for young people.
Awarded: £10,000 (YOF) & £7,450 (YCF)
MUGA, Monks Eleigh
To provide a Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) and youth shelter on the village recreation field.
Awarded: £15,000 (YCF)
2008-09 (Round 3)
Cornard Young Adventure Club (CYAC)
To enable a group of young people from a local estate to go away on a residential experience which involves some adventure activities
Awarded: £4,165 (YOF)
Introduction to Pool Sessions
To run 3 special pool sessions at the local pool to introduce young people to canoeing
Awarded: £370 (YOF) & £1,332 (YCF)
Sudbury & Great Cornard Young Film Makers
To write and develop a number of films during a 12 week project running from January to March 2009
Awarded: £5,180 (YOF) & £3,106 (YCF)
The Ziggy Art Club
To run an after school art club for young people to be held on Tuesday and Thursday nights
Awarded: £5,104 (YOF)
2008-09 (Round 2)
(No applicants)
2008-09 (Round 1)
Skills 4 Life
To run a variety of workshops that will develop young people at Eden's Life Skills
Awarded: £4,809
Teenagers Speak Out Loud
To purchase equipment for a new young peoples' meeting place in Glemsford
Awarded: £7,305
Suffolk Sabres Girls Rugby Team
To equip and pay for practise areas for county wide based girls rugby team in Suffolk
Awarded: £4,985
Reade Field Sports Pavillion
To build and equip new hut for Reade Field. To include changing rooms, kitchen and toilets as well as an area to store equipment.
Awarded: £10,000
2007-08
Acton & Waldingfield Scout Group
To buy 2 canoes for activities
Awarded: £2,381
Eden's Multimedia Studio
To create a multimedia studio
Awarded: £826
Eden's Project Kitchen Refurb
New equipment for kitchen plus 3 video game machines and 3 widescreen TVs
Awarded: £6,993
Eden's Refurbishment Project
To make Eden's the ultimate venue for young people to meet with their friends, offering a real alternative to hanging around the streets
Awarded: £10,901
Eden's Xtra
To open Eden's an extra night a week on a Monday
Awarded: £4,371
Holbrook Basketball Project
To redevelop the basketball area in Holbrook
Awarded: £7,710
Music for Life
Hold 2 hour music sessions each week during term time. Perform gigs. Hold day long workshops during the holidays. Finance County tour, recording, laptop & software
Awarded: £8,847
Neptune Youth Group
To buy a new support boat to enable the youth group to teach a larger number of young people
Awarded: £6,665
Sensations Majorettes
To teach and train majorettes to twirling UK standards
Awarded: £2,580
Shotley Summer Project
To provide activities over the summer for members of the Shotley Youth Club
Awarded: £6,575
Stratford St Mary Youth Club
To buy equipment for the youth club to encourage older young people to attend
Awarded: £3,960
Sudbury & Cornard Young Parents Network
To offer a weekly opportunity for young parents to meet in the Sudbury and Cornard area
Awarded: £4,280
The Jetty Studio
To convert the Jetty Studio for youth friendly projects
Awarded: £6,000
Activity Day Around Issues for Youths
Organise a day of workshops and fun activites for youths of Hadleigh
Awarded: £3,500
- Forest Heath District Council (Brandon, Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Newmarket)
2009-10 (Round 4)
(No applicants)
2009-10 (Round 3)
Newmarket Open Duke of Edinburgh Group
To allow young people aged between 14-25 to enrol in the fun activities and experiences that the Duke of Edinburgh Award offers.
Awarded: £5,000 (YOF)
Thorpe Woodlands Parachute Simulator
To provide a parachute simulator for all young people to use at Thorpe Woodlands.
Awarded: £10,000 (YCF)
2009-10 (Round 2)
(No applicants)
2009-10 (Round 1)
(No applicants)
2008-09 (Round 3)
Once in a Lifetime / Dreams Come True
To advertise the Bunbury Players drama group and enable young people to do more activities and recruit more members
Awarded: £3,500 (YOF) & £7,718 (YCF)
2008-09 (Round 2)
(No applicants)
2008-09 (Round 1)
4 Teens Trip
To pay for the young people involed in the youth club to go to Alton Towers on a trip
Awarded: £2,860
Mission Malawi
To buy outdoor equipment and training so that the young people in the project can travel and participate in a community project in Malawi
Awarded: £2,400
2007-08
Cooking for Young People
Teach young people to cook proper meals
Awarded: £2,985
Forest Heath Skate Park Research
To supply funding for transport etc for research to develop a skate park in Newmarket
Awarded: £3,200
Mildenhall Rocks
To buy equipment to provide regular rock pop and dj sessions
Awarded: £9,550
Music for Life
To run regular rock and pop workshops
Awarded: £10,002
SYKE
To offer transport for young people in Forest Heath
Awarded: £13,995
- Ipswich Borough Council (Ipswich)
2009-10 (Round 4)
Play Connections
To provide opportunities across Ipswich & Suffolk for young people to interact with each other and the wider community through a variety of projects.
Awarded: £4,325 (YOF) & £500 (YCF)
Zimbabwe D of E Award
To allow young people who would not otherwise have the chance to undertake their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh award
Awarded: £4,552 (YOF) & £2,244 (YCF)
Tuesday Night
To provide a safe place for young people to hang out for alternative people - Goths, Greebos, Emos, Punks, Scene, Skaters
Awarded: £3,000 (YOF)
2009-10 (Round 3)
Marlows Youth Club
To allow disadvantaged young people to go on a residential trip they would not otherwise have the opportunity to go on.
Awarded: £1,983 (YOF)
Improving Boating
To purchase 4 new rowing boats which would replace the old wooden ones currently available to the Ipswich Sea Cadets
Awarded: £510 (YOF) & £5,500 (YCF)
The Turn Over
To improve the Nacro training centre for young people.
Awarded: £7,300 (YOF) & £2,500 (YCF)
SQUAD - Super Quality Activity Days
To provide days of activity for adopted teenage children and their families to work together to enhance the family bond.
Awarded: £2,565 (YOF) & £1,268
One Mic
To provide an opportunity for young people to perform on stage in front of their friends and family, focussing on the hidden talents within the Ipswich community amongst our youth.
Awarded: £5,000 (YOF)
2009-10 (Round 2)
Karibu Lions League Basketball, Ipswich
To take the Karibu Lions basketball team into the League in September.
Awarded: £10,000 (YOF)
Young Refugee Education, Ipswich
To provide more English classes for young people who have recently arrived in the Ipswich area as refugees.
Awarded: £10,000 (YOF)
2009-10 (Round 1)
Wheels, Ipswich
To make a film to promote awareness of what can happen if a car is stolen and the person driving doesn't know how to drive - joy-riding can end in sad-riding.
Awarded: £2,800 (YOF) & £400 (YCF)
Ip-Switch-It!, Ipswich
To have SCA in Ipswich open for one day a week in the summer holidays; to go on a trip to Alton Towers at the end of the school year.
Awarded: £5,231 (YOF)
Visiting Artists, Ipswich & Woodbridge
To invite professional people to come and teach young people new skills for the Common Ground Theatre Groups new show.
Awarded: £1,011 (YOF)
2008-09 (Round 3)
Christchurch Rats
To bring together distinct groups within the Park and promote unity; to promote creativity and sociability amongst young people and encourage teamwork
Awarded: £3,430 (YOF)
Digg It
To provide dedicated IT equipment for the DIGG (Development & Income Generation Group), which aims to take an active part in fundraising activities at 4YP
Awarded: £550 (YOF) & £7,357 (YCF)
District D of E Training Project
To fund the purchase of expensive specialist equipment so young people are able to participate in the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme
Awarded: £7,500 (YOF) & £10,000 (YCF)
Game Zone
To improve the quality and range of gaming equipment available to young people after school and during holidays
Awarded: £7,500 (YOF) & £870 (YCF)
The CHOP (Community Hockey Outdoor Park) Project
To fund an area where young people can turn up and play hockey at any time
Awarded: £1,744 (YOF) & £2,450 (YCF)
WCC Our Space
To increase the facilities available at the Waterfront Community Centre so more young people can use the facilities
Awarded: £5,825 (YOF)
2008-09 (Round 2)
Residential To Felixstowe
To enable members of Christy's Club to go on a residential trip to Felixstowe
Awarded: £2,045
Soundwaves Studios
To fund a music studio to be part of Murrayside Youth Club
Awarded: £6,800
The Rope Walk Youth Club
To cater for the needs of other young people in our community through setting up a youth club to provide a social outlet and encourage youth to learn and gain new skills
Awarded: £6,400
Unique (BME Youth Forum)
To create a forum that would represent all BME young people with regards to issues on: racism, school/ education, isolation, boredom, self-esteem/ confidence, peer pressure, raising attainment, aspiration etc
Awarded: £4,600
2008-09 (Round 1)
Wize Up Music Project
To enable young people in project to create and perform different forms of music
Awarded: £5,000
Mix-A-Lot
To purchase equipment to run workshops for young people to learn how to mix their music and DJ
Awarded: £7,525
Why Young People Let Loose?
To pay for a group of young people to go on a day trip to Alton Towers during the summer holidays
Awarded: £3,308
Zimbabwe Youth Project
To run numerous projects from the Zimbabwe Youth project such as different workshops and a magazine.
Awarded: £5,000
Media Night Youth Provision
To support the project with additional equipment to run workshops including Arts and Crafts, Dance, Healthy Life Style, Safety Issues and Multi Media.
Awarded: £5,120
The Rope Walk Youth Club
Setting up and equipping a youth club to run numerous acitivites to appeal to young people in the area
Awarded: £6,400
Unique (BME Youth Forum)
To set up a forum where young people can express their views on a range of topics
Awarded: £4,600
Soundwaves Studios
To purchase music equipment to run a studio for young people to create and produce their own music
Awarded: £6,800
Residential To Felixstowe
To finance a small holiday to Felixstowe for a youth club for disabled and able-bodied young people in Summer 2008
Awarded: £2,045
2007-08
4YP Youth Forum
To provide training, team building skills and learning opportunities for young people in the Youth Forum
Awarded: £3,911
Challenge Residential
To pay for activites and a residential over the school holiday
Awarded: £5,000
Disco & Prom Event
To hold 3 Under-18 disco nights for young LGBTQ and a Gay Prom Night ("Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning")
Awarded: £7,128
Foyer IT
To refurbish the IT room and upgrade the computers
Awarded: £2,341
Foyer Lounge
To redesign the lounge
Awarded: £2,341
From Fork to Fork
To develop an allotment. To learn cooking skills, budgeting, hygiene.
Awarded: £7,124
Ipswich Basketball Club
To update the basketball community home gym
Awarded: £5,000
Ipswich Play Boaters
To make canoe sport available to more young people in the area by having modern equipment that is designed for smaller people.
Awarded: £8,286
JIMAS - Curious Young Womens Group
Positive activities for Muslim young women, raise self-confidence, awareness and improve relations with community, provide safe place, empower young women, recognise their successes and achievements.
Awarded: £5,000
Karibu Club
To gain and improve existing sporting skills.
Awarded: £4,791
Karibu Club
To pay for design, print and copyright on basketball kit previously bought with YOF/YCF grant.
Awarded: £450
Karibu Club
To develop and strenghten existing beauty and home-making skills
Awarded: £2,500
Life Bites
For a group of young people with mild/moderate learning difficulties to be supported into creating dance/music and film production
Awarded: £8,789
London Trip Project
To take 8 under-priviledged young people to London
Awarded: £1,000
MP Football School
To set up a Muslim football club to challenge prejudices and breakdown barriers
Awarded: £2,000
Music For Life
To run regular rock and pop music workshops.
Awarded: £8,373
Orwell Centre Refurb
To install lighting equipment and music equipment at the centre and pay for a residential
Awarded: £5,546
REAL Group
Residential to Mersea Outdoor Centre
Awarded: £4,956
The Chainers
Create short plays on the theme "going missing" - Buy recording equipment and hold award ceremony
Awarded: £12,324
Thomas Wolsey Youth Club
To finance a weekend at Kids Klub
Awarded: £2,550
Twilight Hours Project
To secure portable media and audio equipment to improve employment skills and education. To hire teachers for workshops
Awarded: £17,189
Waterfront Community Centre
Request for additonal funds to pay for Youth workers for round1 project
Awarded: £5,848
Waterfront Rhythms
To write and perform a RESPECT festival song, learn how to drum, to learn how to use the music studio
Awarded: £2,874
Waterfront Young People's Project
To create a multi media studio.
Awarded: £9,847
YIP Music Project
To buy equipment for YIP Music project
Awarded: £4,257
Youth Learning and Recreation Zone
To refurbish room in a community centre to make it young people friendly
Awarded: £6,600
Zimbabwean Youth Group
To set up a group to support Zimbabwean Youths with the culture change in the UK
Awarded: £10,000
YP Ends - mens
To set up a young mens weekend social group, to offer discussions, activities ad challenges
Awarded: £5,000
YP Ends - womens
To set up a young womens weekend social group, to offer discussions, activities ad challenges
Awarded: £5,000
Canoe Polo Club
To buy equipment to set up a Canoe Polo team
Awarded: £5,516
- Mid Suffolk District Council (Needham Market, Stowmarket)
2009-10 (Round 4)
HOPS Team Building Events
To enable volunteers to go on team building activities
Awarded: £2,900 (YOF)
Girls Stuff
To enable the girls from the group to do activities and trips.
Awarded: £1,728 (YOF)
2009-10 (Round 3)
1287 Minibus Appeal
To purchase a minibus for the use of the young cadets.
Awarded: £7,000 (YCF)
Suffolk Kick It Out
To provide football coaching, games and tournaments for young people delivered by an ex-professional footballer.
Awarded: £5,605 (YOF)
2009-10 (Round 2)
(No applicants)
2009-10 (Round 1)
Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, Stowupland
To support and encourage young people with the Duke of Edinburgh award.
Awarded: £690 (YOF)
Amplitude Summer, Stowmarket
To run 12 6-hour music sessions at the Stowmarket Community Education Centre over the summer.
Awarded: £4,580 (YOF) & £1,512 (YCF)
Fat Wreck Fest, Debenham
Over a week, to put on a variety of workshops including music, circus skills and graphic arts that will conclude with a local gig.
Awarded: £4,070 (YOF) & £2,000 (YCF)
2008-09 (Round 3)
Dance Show!
To put on a dance and movement show involving young people of all ages from a local dance school
Awarded: £5,100 (YOF) & £3,200 (YCF)
Monday Night Special Night
To provide up to date activities for young people in Stowmarket who attend Childer Road Youth Centre on Monday Nights
Awarded: £2,500 (YOF)
Recording Studio
To provide equipment for young people to make music - e.g. songs, instrumentals, soundtracks for games and movies
Awarded: £1,000 (YOF)
TCP Shelter
To provide a shelter at Tesco Cedars Park to give young people a place to sit and chillout
Awarded: £2,100 (YOF) & £10,000 (YCF)
The Stowmarket Oval
To clean up and improve the local area where cricket is played
Awarded: £1,816 (YOF) & £5,500 (YCF)
2008-09 (Round 2)
Achieving Independence Show Case Project
To run a project that will help us to learn new skills which we will need in later life
Awarded: £8,500
Film It
Film It will be a series of one hour film-making, editing and planning sessions in Eye from 12noon to 1pm on Saturday mornings, open to young people aged 12-17 years
Awarded: £2,300
Hartismere
In the past year, we have had the opportunity to bild a new dance studio/ sportshall which is now complete. In order to use this hall to the best advantage, the Project wishes to purchase new equipment that can benefit the group and also the local community
Awarded: £6,599
Mix n Munch
The idea is that young people can come in and have a mix or listen to music and to also have a healthy snack from a bar run by young people
Awarded: £5,116
Needham Market Football in the Community (NMITC)
We want our own facility and equipment that allows us to participate in structured football activities all year round. The local adult team has the land available and pitches. We want to use this area for our football practice and coaching
Awarded: £6,060
Summer Fun
To keep Needham Market Youth Club open over the summer holidays and take the opportunity to arrange some activities that would not normally be on offer
Awarded: £4,235
2008-09 (Round 1)
Redwood Lodge
To pay for the young people at the Children's Home to stay for 3 days/2 nights at Alton Towers.
Awarded: £2,016
Boxing Summer Programe
To run a boxing summer programme on every Tuesday and Thursday of the Summer Holidays
Awarded: £2,380
Hall Stars
To buy equipment for the football team including new kit, to pay for referee training and to pay for a stadium tour.
Awarded: £4,058
SOS - Skaters of Stowmarket
To build a new skatepark in Stowmarket
Awarded: £5,000
Needham Market Football in the Community (NMITC)
To equip a facility to allow young people to particiapte in structured football activities through out the year
Awarded: £6,060
Film It
To fund a film making project on Saturdays including new dance, drama, and puppetry
Awarded: £2,300
Hartismere
To equip a newly built sports hall/dance studio
Awarded: £6,598
Summer Fun
To fund Needham Market Youth club to remain open during the summer holidays
Awarded: £4,235
Mix n Munch
To fund equipment so that young people can learn to produce their own music while also participating in healthy eating
Awarded: £5,116
Achieving Independence Show Case Project
To finance a play to desmonstrate what the young people have learnt during a series of life skills building projects
Awarded: £8,500
2007-08
Chat & Chill
To buy laptop, pool table and musical equipment for the youth club
Awarded: £5,645
Debenham Youth Club
Upgrade & update dj & disco equipment
Awarded: £8,375
Debenham Youth Club
To buy instruments and Musical equipment for Debenham Youth Club
Awarded: £3,800
Football Nets
Buy anti vandal 5 aside football goal nets
Awarded: £1,640
Hartismere Cricket Club
Build and buy equipment for a cricket facility
Awarded: £22,850
Husrtlea Boxing Club
To rebuild the exisiting boxing club to provide provision for young people over the summer holiday
Awarded: £14,145
Late Night Hopefuls
To run a youth club for young people with LDD
Awarded: £3,012
Low Rider Bike Project
To supply bike kits to build bikes and complete training
Awarded: £4,550
Mentor Training
Mentor training to help on a residential held during summer holiday.
Awarded: £5,217
Mobile Street Project Wos Up
To buy a 4X4 vehicle equiped with activities and leaflets for young people
Awarded: £13,475
Music for Life
To provide Rock and Pop workshops and gigs
Awarded: £8,580
Needham Market Internet Café
To convert a store cupboard into a games room
Awarded: £9,833
Needham Market Youth Club Trips
To organise 3 day trips for youth club members
Awarded: £4,565
Occold Youth Club
Help fund building a new village hall for the youth club
Awarded: £21,200
Open House/CREATE
To supply funding for more equipment for photography and film making and to fund staffing
Awarded: £9,748
Park View Music Group
Expand on the number of instruments and extend recording equipment
Awarded: £3,140
Parkour Group
To buy equipment designed for young people to practice Parkour/Free Running
Awarded: £10,970
St John's Ambulance
To provide activities for cadets and send 2 to Africa for volunteer work
Awarded: £5,000
Stowupland D of E Camping Equipment
To buy camping equipment
Awarded: £1,620
Stowupland Dance Group
Hold a dance class once per week after school.
Awarded: £3,290
Street Dance Workshop
Hold 1 hour dance sessions over 12 weeks to learn street dance routines
Awarded: £7,780
Summer Holiday opportunity time
To open Needham Youth Club over the summer and provide activities
Awarded: £5,163
UFIE - Equipment
To supply video equipment, food and kitchen equipment
Awarded: £1,200
UFIE - Pool table
To repair the pool table and buy sports equipment
Awarded: £1,000
Hartismere Fitness Centre
To purchase a range of fitness equipment to set up a fitness suite for the area based at the school
Awarded: £5,000
- St Edmundsbury Borough Council (Bury St Edmunds, Clare, Haverhill)
2009-10 (Round 4)
Squadron Band
To purchase new instruments for the squadron band to enable young people to play an active role in the community by taking part in vollage fetes.
Awarded: £3,494 (YCF)
2009-10 (Round 3)
B-Boing Dance Workshop
To teach young people a variety of different types of dancing - breakdancing, popping, krump, hip-hop and house.
Awarded: £4,106 (YOF)
301 IT System
To provide 50+ air cadets from Bury with an IT system, safe internet access and the ability to work towards BTEC and GNVQ qualifications.
Awarded: £6,730 (YOF)
Cycle for Cambodia
To raise funds to help complete a sponsored bike ride from the most westerly point in Wales (St Davids) to the most easterly point in England (Lowestoft)
Awarded: £5,480 (YOF)
Junk Art
To allow young people with special needs/ disabilities the chance to enjoy doing art & craft.
Awarded: £2,115 (YOF)
Bury Street Football
To host a Bury street football tournament on a local estate and invite street ball extreme to give a demonstration of their skills.
Awarded: £2,040 (YOF)
4 2 the 6
To allow young people with disabilities create a band from scratch, buying all necessary equipment and seeing how the young people can develop with support from tutors.
Awarded: £4,360 (YOF) & £650 (YCF)
Communi-K8 Youth Club
To arrange a number of day-trips and excursions for the Youth Club
Awarded: £3,275 (YOF)
2009-10 (Round 2)
Thinking Ahead, Thurston/Thetford
To take methods of dealin with anger and emotions and use them in a team building experience.
Awarded: £1,005 (YOF)
Right Proper Drama Club, Bury St Edmunds
To provide funds for a group of young people to be taught drama techniques and play drama based games.
Awarded: £3,720 (YOF)
Watersport Training Centre, Bury St Edmunds
To improve the existing facilities at the sailing training centre.
Awarded: £850 (YOF) & £3,250 (YCF)
VJ Tour / Body Jam, Haverhill
To do a VJ Tour around a number of venues in Haverhill and the outlying areas.
Awarded: £4,484 (YOF) & £4,630 (YCF)
2009-10 (Round 1)
King Edward D of E, Bury St Edmunds
To plan and execute Duke of Edinburgh Award expeditions.
Awarded: £5,000 (YOF)
Box Trailer/ Refurb, Bury St Edmunds
To purchase a new box trailer for the minibus; to refurbish the project area at squadron headquarters in Thurston.
Awarded: £12,223 (YCF)
Basketball & Streetball Club, Haverhill
To hold a basketball extreme event in Haverhill in order to increase the exposure of basketball in the local community. To start a basketball club for young people to ensure there is continuity from the youth basketball club.
Awarded: £9,840 (YOF) & £4,302 (YCF)
Outdoor Activity Complex, Bury St Edmunds
To provide a safe, secure complex that allows a range of activities to take place that otherwise would not be possible including band practice, volleyball, basketball, leadership training and rigging.
Awarded: £14,990 (YCF)
The SCA Bar, Bury St Edmunds
To build a tuck shop at SCA in Bury.
Awarded: £1,965 (YOF)
Audio Break, Bury St Edmunds
To hold a 5-day workshop at the Rehearsal Rooms in Bury St Edmunds to cover a variety of music-related themes and topics.
Awarded: £1,750 (YOF) & £2,680 (YCF)
2008-09 (Round 3)
Anselm Youth Club Summer Time
To fund a youth project that would provide equipment and activities for local young people
Awarded: £3,400 (YOF) & £2,200 (YCF)
Bands Information & VJ Project
To encourage young people to learn new skills - how to interview people, camera skills, film editing, VJ skills, communication and teamwork - by helping local bands to promote themselves and give them access to equipment
Awarded: £3,428 (YOF) & £2,012 (YCF)
Christmas Party
To give local bands and dancers the opportunity to showcase their talent and gain experience in performing
Awarded: £4,719 (YOF)
Marquee, Minibus & Mountain Bikes
To fund a marquee, minibus and mountain bikes for young people to benefit from in the area
Awarded: £7,000 (YOF) & £10,000 (YCF)
Rattlesden Youth Community Council
To help fund a new pavilion that will be used partly to house a youth group and give local young people a place to have a good time
Awarded: £5,000 (YCF)
2008-09 (Round 2)
Morton Halls Oblivion
To arrange a trip to Oblivion for members of the Moreton Hall Youth Club
Awarded: £3,656
2008-09 (Round 1)
Friends for the Future
To celebrate the 250 years since the originial Anglo- Japanese treaty to throw an 1858 themed day to welcome young people from Japan visiting the area
Awarded: £196
Christmas Panto Outing
To finance threatre trip - tickets and travel - for group of young people from Extra Steps and Beyond
Awarded: £1,080
Away From Base
To finance numerous day trips over the summer for the young people from the Communi-ke group
Awarded: £4,265
School's Out For Summer
To run a variety of sports events on one day for young people to participate in.
Awarded: £1,740
Morton Halls Oblivion
To fund a trip for a youth club to go to Alton Towers for the weekend
Awarded: £3,656
2007-08
1109 Air Training Corps Barnham
To buy a minibus for the squadron to be transported to events and training
Awarded: £10,000
1st Haverhill Girls Brigade
Fund a walking trip
Awarded: £250
BSE Young Mum's Group
Activities for a young mum's group over the summer
Awarded: £3,000
Bury CRC Grafitti Wall
To create a graffiti project for young people in Bury Children's Home
Awarded: £807
Digital Music & Video Project
To create their own piece of music and add a video to it
Awarded: £5,000
Extra Steps & Beyond
To provide a summer ball for members of club
Awarded: £610
Friday ART Project
To create a piece of artwork in their outside football court
Awarded: £1,271
Get Fresh, Grow Up
To manage an allotment to grow own fruit and veg
Awarded: £5,005
Gold Arts Event
To hold an open access arts event in Abbey Gardens to provide taster sessions and showcase local artists
Awarded: £4,226
Gonenkai - Edale
To pay for transport to a reunion residential in Derbyshire
Awarded: £686
Graffiti Project
To create a graffiti board about drugs and young people
Awarded: £5,000
I'm Just a Number
To produce a short film on road safety to be sent nationwide to secondary schools
Awarded: £3,768
Music For Life
To provide a place for young musicians to improve their skills
Awarded: £7,581
Music Workshops
Music equipment
Awarded: £20,836
No 46
To create a menu of activities, DJ Booth, Broadband and table tennis
Awarded: £8,950
Positive Futures
Take 14 young people to London for football trials
Awarded: £1,043
Recycled Circus
An art project to make a circus tent out of recycled materials
Awarded: £4,465
SCA Pool Tables
Provide 2 Pool tables for SCA
Awarded: £1,521
Spring Expeditions
To successfully achieve and/or qualifying expedition at bronze and silver level for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme
Awarded: £758
The Hangar
To upgrade their DJ booth
Awarded: £4,294
Trip to Paris
Residential to Paris
Awarded: £2,035
West Suffolk College
To take a group of young people to Thorpe Park
Awarded: £1,500
West Suffolk College Group
Team building outdoor activity day
Awarded: £4,498
Young Farmers Club
Keep website up to date
Awarded: £1,170
Youth Council
To supply equipment and continue the Youth Council
Awarded: £6,996
West Suffolk D of E Open Award
To pay for a residential weekend in the Peak District and buy camping equipment
Awarded: £5,000
Africa Trip
To add to funds already raised to take 8 young people from the children's home to Africa volunteering
Awarded: £8,000
Project Football
To buy football equipment for the young peope in the home to use to practice and join a a team
Awarded: £1,500
Mix It Up
To take a group of young people paintballing to "mix up" their social groups and to improve teamwork
Awarded: £942
Communi-K8 Easter Activities
To pay for a day trip for young people with additional needs and buy games equipment for the youth club
Awarded: £2,000
Anselm Youth Club
To fund the youth club to open regularly
Awarded: £4,800
- Suffolk Coastal District Council (Felixstowe, Framlingham, Kesgrave, Leiston)
2009-10 (Round 4)
Marlesford Massive
To enable the young people who are members of the Marlesford Massive Youth Club to play an active role in society, learn social skills and gain responsibility.
Awarded: £1,000 (YOF)
Chat 'N' Chill
To provide an area within Deben High School for students to relax after school.
Awarded: £5,000 (YOF)
Faith Girls Group
To enable the Fairh Girls Group to run a youth worker, who will organise activities and workshops for the members of the group
Awarded: £5,000 (YOF)
Bredfield Youth Club
To enable members of the youth club to learn to play musical instruments
Awarded: £1,000 (YOF)
2009-10 (Round 3)
Danger! Danger!
To provide one week of band tuition and work during the summer holidays.
Awarded: £2,000 (YOF)
Liaze
To turn what is a barely used storage room into a chill out/ relax room
Awarded: £2,000 (YOF) & £1,350 (YCF)
Duke of Edinburgh Woodbridge Open Unit
To be able to provide an accessible, viable and successful opportunity for young people in Woodbridge and the surrounding area to complete their Duke of Edinburgh Award.
Awarded: £5,599 (YOF)
Junior Equipment
To purchase more junior equipment which will allow more junior participation and development in the Deben Rowing Club.
Awarded: £1,592 (YOF) & £7,360 (YCF)
WMFYC Pavilion
To raise funds towards building a pavilion on the WMYFC sports field and will provide toilet facilities.
Awarded: £13,000 (YCF)
Soundwaves Ultimate Bands Contest
To hold 3 heats of a battle of the bands competition. 3 bands from each heat will then be selected to put their compositions on to an album.
Awarded: £4,815 (YOF) & £2,315 (YCF)
2009-10 (Round 2)
Leiston Trampolining, Leiston
To increase opportunities in Leiston for young people to access trampolining in the form of a club, coaching sessions and competitions.
Awarded: £4,577 (YOF) & £4,394 (YCF)
RIB, Felixstowe/Woodbridge
To replace the existing RIB due to it being old and tattered and purchased second hand.
Awarded: £4,198 (YOF)
2009-10 (Round 1)
The WAPer, Woodbridge
To install an artificial pitch at the Worlingworth Cricket Club with a low slip surface for safety, long life and of professional quality to allow as many games as possible per season.
Awarded: £13,620 (YCF)
Savvy Teen Shelter, Saxmundham
To provide a shelter for young people so they have somewhere to go while fundraising to renovate the local park is happening.
Awarded: £10,695 (YCF)
Minibus Fund, Felixstowe
To put towards funding for a new minibus for the Felixstowe Sea Cadets.
Awarded: £10,000 (YOF) & £14,393 (YCF)
2008-09 (Round 3)
Karen Carpenter Story
To raise self-esteem and self belief; to gain an understanding of peer pressure and the influence of the media; to look at role models and what young people allow to influence their own image and identity and where to go if it all goes wrong
Awarded: £3,355 (YOF)
Kesgrave Kings
To start a local league basketball team
Awarded: £7,500 (YOF) & £3,005 (YCF)
Kuk Sool Won
Kuk Sool Won is a traditional martial art which helps develop discipline, self-respect and respect for others
Awarded: £4,316 (YOF) & £2,302 (YCF)
Leiston Competitive Basketball
To give local basketballers the opportunity to enter the EBBA under-19 basketball league
Awarded: £2,700 (YOF)
Leiston Cricket
To raise the awareness and quality of cricket within the local community
Awarded: £2,850 (YOF) & £1,560 (YCF)
Yoxford Pitch for Funding
To build an artificial cricket pitch
Awarded: £10,000 (YCF)
2008-09 (Round 2)
Artified/Paradise Garden
The project has two parts. The first is to build an organic vegetable patio and patio area to have barbecues and to do cooking on. The secons is to have an art room called Artified so the young people can do art projects and paitning, and listen to music
Awarded: £5,000
Leiston Dance
We want to get more young people actively involved in dance within our local area; to raise the standard of the dancers in the local area; to improve the current facility provision for dance by installing specialist dance mirrors, ballet barre, sound system and lighting. We would also like to arrange a visit to an elite dance studio
Awarded: £6,369
Party in the Sticks
To run a disco for young people in the villages outside Woodbridge
Awarded: £4,970
Soundwaves Compilation Album 2
To form a compilation album that includes many young enthusiastic musicians who are from different backgrounds and help them to advance their musical capabilities and knowledge
Awarded: £4,700
Thomas Mills High School - Fitness Suite
The project aims to convert an office space on theSports Hall balcony to an aerobics/ fitness suite
Awarded: £4,060
2008-09 (Round 1)
The Duke of Edinburgh
To help the young people obtain the Bronze Award from the Duke of Edinburgh Scheme 2008-2009
Awarded: £1,000
Gifted and Talented Water Sports
To pay for the young people to participate in the Royal Yachting Association Stage 1- Junior Dingy Sailing Course
Awarded: £2,490
Peasenhall Young People (PYP
To equip the youth club so that the young people can participat in numerous workshops and activities and attract more members
Awarded: £1,422
Club Sax
To equip the youth club so that the young people can participate in activities that they would not normally do
Awarded: £2,497
Go With The Flow (Cluster Bus)
Payment towards mini bus for group
Awarded: £5,000
IT Overnight Group
To buy two lap top computers and printers so that all sections of the group can learn IT and work towards their badges in the scout group
Awarded: £2,050
Shark EYE Coach Training
To help regular young attendees at the lesiure centre coach training so they can help out with coaching as well as devleoping their own swimming skills
Awarded: £1,175
Deben Young Paddlers
To equip project so they can run courses teaching young people new skills in kayaking and canoeing.
Awarded: £6,800
Fusion 3:16
Payment towards mini bus for group
Awarded: £5,000
Venture Adventure
To purchase new adventure training kit allowing young people to develop new skills in the ATC.
Awarded: £4,885
Thomas Mills High School - Fitness Suite
To build and purchase equipment for new gym facilities in Framlingham
Awarded: £4,060
Artified/Paradise Garden
To build a gardening area in the home and also an Art room
Awarded: £5,000
Leiston Dance
To equip a dance studio to run dance workshops
Awarded: £6,369
Party in the Sticks
To run a disco for young people in the villages outside Woodbridge to take palce at the weekends including a tuck shop.
Awarded: £4,970
Soundwaves Compelation Album 2
To create a compilation album that includes many young artists from the area
Awarded: £4,700
2007-08
1st Leiston Scout Group
To visit the "World Jamboree" and to replace trailer
Awarded: £3,650
ATC Accessibility Project
To buy a minibus
Awarded: £24,690
Bin There Drummed That
Funding to take over the running of the group and supply money for support
Awarded: £4,520
Carlton Park Hockey Club
To enable them to enter the Suffolk Hockey Association U17 Girls league
Awarded: £3,445
Claytime/Playtime
Produce animated films like Wallace & Grommit about serious issues
Awarded: £5,520
Claytime/Playtime
To buy a camera and a laptop
Awarded: £2,077
Deben Canoe Club
To buy equipment and training for young people to learn canoeing
Awarded: £13,340
Felixstowe Skatepark
To provide a safe, controlled, professionally designed area for "extreme" sports.
Awarded: £25,000
Felixstowe Swimming Club
Funding for an automatic score board
Awarded: £15,000
Framlingham Bus
To provide equipment for a double decker bus which will serve as a mobile youth club
Awarded: £15,000
Framlingham Youth Club
Refurbishment of Youth Club and buy computer equipment
Awarded: £19,725
Hasketon & Grundisburgh Youth Club
3 week summer programme for YP's in Hasketon & Grundisburgh
Awarded: £4,976
HN Netball Club
To buy kit to match the senior team
Awarded: £1,700
Kirton BMX Bike Track
To create a permanent BMX track.
Awarded: £5,200
Kirton Youth Club
To create a youth group for the village
Awarded: £14,028
Leiston Tennis Facility
To improve the tennis facilties in Leiston
Awarded: £5,423
Leiston Youth Club
To build a basketball court.
Awarded: £3,000
Leiston Youth Club
To create an ICT suite in the youth club
Awarded: £5,204
Level 2 Youth Project
To buy 5 new computers for the youth club
Awarded: £3,272
Peasenhall Youth Club
Expand Youth Club by creating an online space for young people
Awarded: £2,195
Regeneration of Guide Land - 2nd Walton Guides
Regeneration of guide land for outdoor activities
Awarded: £7,749
Sanctuary Supported Housing
To have a computer/laptop for the service users in the supported housing. To have a BBQ, to have mirrors in the bedrooms
Awarded: £1,000
Self Develop/Team Spirit
Develop a coaching team of young people for Team Spirit Cheerleading squad
Awarded: £2,310
Soundwaves Woodbridge
Arrange music sessions and gigs. Buy musical equipment
Awarded: £5,940
Suffolk Coastal Teen Voices
To provide transport and support to promote young people's views
Awarded: £6,760
Suffolk Coastal Youth Forum
Fund the setting up of a youth forum
Awarded: £6,760
Tru Soldier Dance Project
To provide a dance classes
Awarded: £3,782
Woodbridge Club Night
To hold under 18's club nights in Woodbridge
Awarded: £5,000
Yoxford Arts Festival
Bring together local children with varying musical abilities to form an orchestra and small musical groups.
Awarded: £2,875
Cadet Uniform for SJA Felixstowe
To fund uniforms for young people that cannot afford to supply their own uniform to join SJA
Awarded: £2,443
Woodbridge D of E
To buy camping equipment and go on camping trips
Awarded: £4,000
- Waveney District Council (Bungay, Halesworth, Lowestoft, Southwold)
2009-10 (Round 4)
(No applicants)
2009-10 (Round 3)
Duke of Edinburgh Programme
To give a group of homeless young people the opportunity to take part in the Duke of Edinburgh programme.
Awarded: £8,276 (YCF)
2009-10 (Round 2)
Construction Brave! Beccles
To purchase a portable building which can be placed within the current Unit grounds to increase the ability of the Unit to cater for more young people.
Awarded: £7,438 (YCF)
Gt Yarmouth Weekend Dance Festival, Lowestoft
To provide part of the funds for young people to attend the Gt Yarmouth Dance Festival.
Awarded: £1,988 (YOF)
Rock Lobster Studio, Southwold/Reydon
To provide equipment for young people to produce and record their own music.
Awarded: £5,765 (YOF)
I Made This! Lowestoft
To help fund the 'I Made This' Project, which will run media projects in professional studios in Suffolk.
Awarded: £15,000 (YCF)
Act Up - Prime Suspects, Lowestoft
To provide a 2-week prforming arts summer school based at the Denes High School.
Awarded: £6,281 (YOF)
2009-10 (Round 1)
Wannabe Willow, Lowestoft
To improve The Pit in Lowestoft to make it a better place for young people to socialise. To make a mini football pitch in this area and put a fence and posts around it.
Awarded: £1,323 (YOF) & £750 (YCF)
Stitch It Up, Lowestoft
To make & design own clothes; to share skills with younger students and disabled individuals; to earn own money by setting up a business selling own designs; to hold a fashion show showcasing the work done; to make own prom dresses.
Awarded: £5,022 (YOF)
Radio East, Waveney
To create a youth-orientated internet radio station.
Awarded: £1,000 (YOF)
Sketch, Lowestoft
To give the young people of Lowestoft the chance to graffiti safely and legally and to learn new skills such as airbrushing.
Awarded: £5,000 (YOF)
Cricket Lanes, Lowestoft
To install two new cricket lanes.
Awarded: £10,000 (YCF)
Give it a Go!, Lowestoft
Residential trip to Upminster, Essex.
Awarded: £5,191 (YOF)
Benji's Baby Borrowers, Lowestoft
To record presentations for sharing with schools on the experience of teenage parents to reduce teenage pregnancy rates.
Awarded: £1,067 (YOF)
Launch & Boat, Beccles
To install a new safety rescue launch and to purchase a new sculling boat.
Awarded: £580 (YOF) & £9,208 (YCF)
Our D of E Challenge, Lowestoft
To plan and execute Duke of Edinburgh Award expeditions.
Awarded: £3,680 (YCF)
2008-09 (Round 3)
Cyber Summer Camp
To get 13-19 year olds involved in the Sea Cadet Corps
Awarded: £,1500 (YOF) & £7,200 (YCF)
Lateral Artistes
To highlight social issues and castes in our area; to show people about racism and bullying and how it affects different people. These issues to be expressed through the art of drama
Awarded: £2,840 (YOF)
Our Paddle Power Plan
To give other young people to chance to gain qualifications in canoeing
Awarded: £1,789 (YOF) & £4,160 (YCF)
Positive Changes 4 Young People
To purchase a laptop and accessories to enable young people to communicate with other youth groups, and to improve records of meetings
Awarded: £1,500 (YOF) & £650 (YCF)
Thirst Youth Café
To transform a basement/ storage room into a games/ relaxation room
Awarded: £798 (YOF) & £4,822 (YCF)
Toilets are Ruff
To refurbish the Village Hangout toilets and thereby give the young people who use the venue facilities that are more hygienic and look better
Awarded: £3,500 (YCF)
2008-09 (Round 2)
Cyber Café for Young People in Bungay and District
The money from this Project will be used to hire a premises for use as a cyber café and to employ two part-time members of staff to run said premises
Awarded: £10,000
District Boat Station
This project will help to set up a new boating centre which will be used by about 200 cadets from Suffolk Sea Cadet units. It will also be used byother youth organisations. The centre will be RYA endorsed which will mean the cadets will gain recognised qualifications
Awarded: £9,400
K Play Community Radio
To fund a community radio project
Awarded: £7,948
Southwold Rib
To encourage more young people to sail - Suffolk has 45 miles of coastline but only one sailing club on the coast between Lowestoft and Felixstowe
Awarded: £5,000
Upgrade TS Brave
The money from this Project will be used to buy boating equipment
Awarded: £5,400
YOF Holiday Activities/ YOF Computer Room Development
This project will provide funds for young people who have not gone on holiday before to go on holiday, and also to decorate and improve the Pakefield Road Childrens Home computer room
Awarded: £5,000
2008-09 (Round 1)
Boston Revitalise
To purchase equipment for youth club so they can attract new members and arrange new activities
Awarded: £4,241
Sounds of the Sea
To arrange an exhibition of sound on the Mincarlo Boat over the summer
Awarded: £5,619
Mega Challenge 2008
To build two 2cv cars from five scrap cars, to finance three young people to learn to drive and then to travel to Poland and participate in a project over there
Awarded: £7,500
Sports Pavilion Catering Equipment
To refurbish and equip a new kitchen in busy Sports Pavillion
Awarded: £5,000
Southwold Rib
Finance towards purchasing new boat for group
Awarded: £5,000
Upgrade TS Brave
To purchase boating equipment for Sea Cadets
Awarded: £5,400
YOF Holiday Activities/ YOF Computer Room Development
To equip and decorate computer room in Children's home
Awarded: £5,000
K Play Community Radio
To finance a small team to organise a larger team to run a radio station in Lowestoft
Awarded: £7,948
Cyber Café for Young People in Bungay and District
Set up a Cyber Café for Young People in Bungay and District
Awarded: £10,000
2007-08
1st Bungay Sea Scouts
To buy camping and video equipment
Awarded: £5,042
2nd Beccles Explorer Scouts
To buy camping equipment and go on camping trips
Awarded: £4,992
After School Activities @ Bungay HS
To provide trampolines, training and related equipment. To provide table tennis equipment.
Awarded: £14,868
Beccles Big Games Project
To buy big games and circus equipment for 3 youth clubs
Awarded: £2,944
Beccles Rowing Club
Equipment to enable more young people to safely experience and participate in sculling and fitness.
Awarded: £3,894
Beccles Rowing Club
Extensions to previous requests to cover insurance and delivery
Awarded: £371
Beccles Rowing Club
To provide the final 20% of funding to build a new boathouse
Awarded: £10,000
Beccles Scouts
Derbyshire hiking trip and canoeing equipment
Awarded: £5,043
Beccles Swimming Club
Purchase inflatables and floats for "fun sessions" in outdoor swimming pool.
Awarded: £5,000
Beccles Youth Club
2 Thorpe Woodlands trips for 20 Young people
Awarded: £958
Beccles Youth Club Arts Project
To buy art equipment to obtain AQA certificate
Awarded: £2,165
Beccles Youth Club Football & Equipment Project
To attend Football Training and purchase equipment for the youth club
Awarded: £3,782
Bounce Walking Event
Organise a walking event to cover 4 towns in Waveney area.
Awarded: £2,252
Bungay Youth Club
To provide music equipment and instruments, internet access, games, other electrical equipment and new furniture for the youth club
Awarded: £5,175
Bungay Youth Club
To buy computers and pay for a residential in Cornwall
Awarded: £7,197
Colville House Camping Trip
To have a camping trip to build better relationships
Awarded: £2,285
Colville House Equipment
To buy equipment for the Colville House Youth Club
Awarded: £1,611
Colville House Music Sessions
To provide instruments for music sessions at Colville House
Awarded: £2,336
Colville House Pool Table
To buy a new pool table
Awarded: £2,036
Colville Skate Ramp
To refurbish the indoor skateboard ramp and provide music equipment
Awarded: £1,117
i-mag
To run a completely young person controlled internet magazine
Awarded: £1,200
JUMP
Rent a unit to deliver mentor services
Awarded: £4,110
Kessingland Computers
To update the multi media in the centre
Awarded: £3,729
Kessingland Village Hangout Camping Trip
Camping Trip to Thorpe Woodlands
Awarded: £1,685
Kessingland Village Hangout Healthy Eating Project
To provide a healthy eating training project for the youth club members
Awarded: £1,049
Kessingland Village Hangout Sports
To provide sports equipment for the youth club
Awarded: £4,533
Kessingland Village Hangout Windows
To replace windows in mobile classroom
Awarded: £4,298
Lowesoft Explorer Scouts
To take part in a self organised Gold Duke of Edinburgh with pratice and training for the real expedition
Awarded: £1,680
Lowestoft Scouts
Funding for Jamboree Trip
Awarded: £3,000
Morton Road Dance Project
To pay for tutors and new stereo system
Awarded: £1,600
Morton Road Youth Club Computer Project
To buy new computers for the youth club
Awarded: £2,500
Morton Youth Club Arts Project
To buy art equipment for the youth club
Awarded: £900
Morton Youth Club Phoenix Café
To provide equipment for the coffee bar area in the youth club and run it like a real coffee shop
Awarded: £700
Music For Life
To have really good rock and pop workshops to discover skills, support others, form bands.
Awarded: £7,975
PSYCHED
An opportunity for young people with enduring mental health difficulties to meet fellow victims to offer support and social inclusion
Awarded: £2,400
Reydon Youth Club
To buy equipment for Reydon Youth Club and Healthy Eating sessions
Awarded: £673
Reydon Youth Club Comfy Room
To refurbish Reydon's Senior Youth Club's Comfy Room
Awarded: £4,148
Reydon Youth Club Go-Karting
Hire Ellough Park Raceway to go go-karting and learn about maintenance and safety
Awarded: £1,380
Rock Lobster
To provide a computerised recording system
Awarded: £5,765
St John's Housing Trust
To convert the old smoking room and pay for a trip to Thorpe Woodlands
Awarded: £4,772
Step-up Project
To provide activities that build confidence to help survive GCSE's
Awarded: £14,640
The Yard
Buy a piece of land, plant willow, harvest it, learn the skills to make fencing, sell the fencing to provide up keep of the land.
Awarded: £24,000
Waveney Valley Canoe Club
To buy canoeing equipment.
Awarded: £3,285
Brighter Futures Making
To set up a youth group and plan activities
Awarded: £4,000
Volunteer Youth Worker Training Celebration
To celebrate a group of young people completing training and learning more about becoming a youth worker
Awarded: £685
- County-wide Projects
2009-10 (Round 4)
Movers & Shapers
To provide funding for a research group that has been researches young peoples views on parenting
Awarded: £5,000 (YOF)
2009-10 (Round 3)
(No applicants)
2009-10 (Round 2)
(No applicants)
2009-10 (Round 1)
Boats for the Boat Centre
To purchase boats for the new boat centre.
Awarded: £8,964 (YOF) & £15,000 (YCF)
2008-09 (Round 3)
(No applicants)
2008-09 (Round 2)
(No applicants)
2008-09 (Round 1)
(No applicants)
2007-08
Every LGBTQ Youth Matters
To have a Suffolk event for young gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning people in a nice venue with refreshments
Awarded: £4,956
Suffolk Youth Open Adventure
To hold session at Thorpe Woodlands
Awarded: £6,300
Suffolk Youth Pedal Power
To buy special needs bikes and fund a cycling day trip
Awarded: £6,660
JAWS
To buy a new Rib to improve safety
Awarded: £6,725
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What's it all about?
The Youth Opportunity Fund (YOF) and Youth Capital Funds (YCF) are special funds for young people, run by young people.
The funds are available to support projects and activities for young people in Suffolk, which have been developed by young people from their own ideas!
YOF support projects and activities – ‘things to do and places to go’. Up to £10,000 is available.
YCF can be used to buy things like equipment and pay for building changes. Up to £15,000 is available.
