The Chill Out Fund provides matched funding for projects for young people.
Want to appeal a decision? Download the appeals form and guidance
Unlucky? Try some of these other funding sources
Projects funded by the Youth Opportunity Fund and Youth Capital Fund
Bidding for the 2010/11 Youth Opportunity Fund and Youth Capital Fund has just opened. The Chill Out Fund is also now accepting bids for 2010/11.
The new forms are available on the Forms page.
Please note that we cannot accept bids made on last year's forms.
The Application Forms for the Youth Opportunity Fund and Youth Capital Fund 2010-11 have been updated, and some of the rules have changed, so please download and read the new Funding Guidance Notes in full.
You can download the application forms as a PDF only.
Forms should be returned to:
Ruth Kempson
IYSS,
Knights Court,
21, Between Towns Road,
Oxford OX4 3LXOr by email to ruth.kempson@oxfordshire.gov.uk
If your request for funding from the Youth Opportunity Fund or Youth Capital Fund has been turned down, you can do two things. You can appeal the decision, or you can submit a new application.
If:
You can download, fill in and send in the Appeal Form and Guidance
If:
You should contact your Decision Making and Young People Worker and discuss how to strengthen your application, and then reapply.
Because Oxfordshire County Council believes that YOUTH MATTERS, we have set up a fund of £100,000 revenue and £100,000 capital to support work with children and young people across the county.
The 2010-11 funding round for the Chill Out Fund has just opened, for positive, constructive leisure-time projects for young people aged 8-19 (up to 24 for young people with learning difficulties).
Bids must be received at least ten working days before a meeting to be considered. Applicants will be notified within ten working days of the meeting. The dates for these are:
Meeting Dates |
Deadline for bids |
Decisions published |
7th April |
12th March |
8th April |
5th May |
9th April |
5th May |
1st June |
30th April |
2nd June |
6th July |
11th June |
7th July |
7th September |
13th August |
8th Sept |
5th October |
10th September |
6th October |
3rd November |
8th October |
4th Nov |
7th December |
12th November |
8th Dec |
4th January |
3rd December |
5th January |
1st February |
7th January |
2nd February |
1st March |
4th February |
2nd March |
For more information about the fund, guidance notes and more please download the application form.
You might have a project that's great, but not quite right for the Youth Opportunity Funding. What then? These other great organisations also provide funding for projects for young people. Why not see if one of them fits the bill?
N.B. We are unable to offer support or advice for any funding other than the Youth Opportunity Fund and Chill Out Fund, please contact the grant-giving organisations for more information and advice.
There will be no deadlines for the 2010/11 funding rounds, applications may be submitted at any time and will be considered at the next available meeting.
Interested in finding out about projects funded so far? We publish lists of projects funded annually.
Advice from the government says that when you're applying, these should be your top three priorities:
Find out more on the hints and tips page.
Would you like to be one of the Young People who decides which projects will receive funding? You can get the power by sitting on a Young People's Panel.
Panels of Young People from Oxfordshire decide how the Youth Opportunity and Capital Funds are spent.
If your youth group is interested in hosting a Young People's Panel, then you should contact your Decision Making and Young People Worker.
Do you have news about about the Youth Opportunity Fund or other sources of funding?
We're interested in hearing about your successes, ideas, and experiences of applying for funding, or of granting funding, as part of a Divisional Youth Forum.
Have you had any successes, won funding, or completed funded projects?
