Closing date 16/02/2026

Grants are available for organisations across the UK working to support youth organising to test new ideas that explore knowledge or action gaps in the youth organising field.

This fund aims to support projects exploring gaps in action or understanding for the youth organising field through the action learning model.

Five grants of £15,000 are available

Organisations that work to support youth organising and wish to test new models of youth organising through experimentation and learning can apply.

Groups should be committed to collaboration and knowledge-sharing with other organisations, networks, and movements.

Collaborative applications are welcomed where there is a lead organisation with a clear agreement about how the project will be managed and how funds will be used.

Funding is for organisations to test out new ideas to explore important questions around how to expand the reach of youth organising on behalf of the field or wider environment.

The Alliance has identified the following questions as valuable:

Organising deserts: How can the youth organising field expand access to organising and political education to places and young people who are not currently being reached? The Alliance is particularly interested in:

The potential to collaborate with youth practitioners to expose more young people to organising methodologies.
The potential to use sport or culture as a way of bringing more young people into organising.
The power structures and dynamics that limit the growth of youth organising.

Disability inclusion: How can the youth organising field better support disabled young people to get involved in organising?
Far right and polarisation: How can the youth organising field respond to the far right and increasing polarisation? The Alliance is particularly interested in ideas that bridge the difference and promote dialogue and joy.
Internationalism: How can the youth organising field build stronger practical internationalism that undermines ongoing colonial power dynamics? The Alliance is particularly interested in building connections and networks with young people and communities in the Global South (however, this grant is for UK-based organisations only).
Strengthening and connecting the youth organising field: How might the youth organising field strengthen peer networks and create more opportunities for groups to connect, collaborate, and learn from one another?