Camelot Foundation - Transforming Lives Programme
The Camelot Foundation launches four rounds of grant-making every year. Each round addresses a specific theme. The theme for this round is as follows:
Tackling Prejudice: Working to reduce victimization and hate crime within and towards selected priority groups.
The Foundation is seeking to address the following issues in this round:
Tackling Prejudice within and towards young people (11-25) in the priority groups:
- The Camelot Foundation recognises that young people in the priority groups face prejudice in their daily lives.
- Victimisation and hate crime often go beyond causing offence or hostility for these young people
- Often such behaviour is motivated by race, colour, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, mental health (this list is not intended to be exhaustive but purely illustrative)
- Cultural diversity is not new to the UK, but the “multicultural” approach through which diversity policy has been shaped for the last four decades is now being called into question – has this contributed to the challenges that face young people in The Foundation’s priority groups?
Tackling the prejudice of young people:
- A Joseph Rowntree Foundation report Challenging racist attitudes and behaviour in young people found “a significant minority” of young people studied expressed dislike of other groups, especially refugees and asylum seekers and other newly arrived communities.
- Young people that commit an act of hate crime or victimization are likely to have been victims of prejudice themselves.
The Foundation’s objectives for this round:
To promote the social inclusion of young people that face, or are perpetrators of prejudice from the following priority groups:
- Young parents
- Young exiles
- Young people with mental health problems
- Young disabled people
To achieve this by providing funding for projects that:
- Challenge prejudice towards or of the young people in the priority groups
- Are young people-led, enabling young people in the priority groups to express themselves, the issues they face in their lives and their aspirations for the future
- Allow excluded young people to influence and challenge the prejudice of other young people.
Please note that the Foundation has stated that it will not consider proposals that do not relate to the chosen theme. They are looking to fund initiatives that seek to try out experimental ways of working and that are young people led.
Grants of a total of between £40,000 and £80,000 will be awarded over a period of up to two years. Please note that the Foundation will only award between three to five grants this round as the Programme is highly competitive (in the previous round 6 applications were funded out of the 233 submitted).
Please find the application form and a copy of the guidance notes via the following links:
1st Stage Application Form (leaves SCVS site)
Guidance Notes (leaves SCVS site)