In 2005, the Carnegie UK Trust stopped its small grants programme. Below are a list of grants that were awarded prior to this decision. Please note that we are no longer a reactive grant giving Trust.
Bolton Lads & Girls Club, Lancashire
to enable young people to participate in the Local Area Forums established by the Borough of Bolton as part of the Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy.
British Youth Council (BYC), UK wide
to increase the participation of young people who are socially excluded and to revitalise the roles played by Local Youth Councils in decision-making partnerships.
Centre for Educational Innovation, Brighton
To support a National Dissemination Worker to develop ways in which to develop Student Voice in schools and the wider community.
Centre for Sustainable Energy, Bristol
To support a programme that will team young people with policy makers to deliver sustainable energy and action plans for their area.
Centrepoint 8:59, Oxford
to encourage young people to actively participate in decision making to seek solutions to homelessness in rural Oxfordshire.
Changemakers , Nr Wells
to develop a peer advocacy toolkit which will feed into a three year National Youth Action Tank Project – where young activists support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and environments.
Children’s Parliament, Scotland
To develop a Scottish-wide network in 20 local authority areas, which will meet monthly to talk about issues, and come together annually as a Children’s Parliament.
Children’s Research Centre, Open University, Milton Keynes
to help children and young people develop new ways of making sure that their research is used by decision-makers – in schools, and their local communities.
Children’s Rights Alliance for England
To extend the U What? Project to enable the Young People Translation Unit to support government in producing young people accessible consultation documents.
The Children’s Society, UK wide
to support the evaluation and further development of their Young People’s Charter of Participation.
Devon Youth Association
To support a National pilot of the Young Assessors programme, giving young people the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge required to assess and effect change to services that affect their lives.
Dove House Community Trust, Derry, N Ireland
to recruit and train a team of young people to develop a youth charter and development plan, to meet the needs of young people in Bogside and Brandywell.
English Secondary Students’ Association (ESSA) – Phoenix Education Trust, London
To ‘pump-prime’ the development of ESSA, a young people-led organisation, as the representative body for secondary school students in England.
Greater East Belfast Youth Strategy Group
To develop the Youth Assembly which will create a forum for voicing opinions, provide a wider constituency of young people for consultation and tap into and develop ICT communications.
Heeley Development Trust, Sheffield
To establish a youth consultancy service run by young people in Sheffield as a development of the Heeley Youth Participation project set up in 1998.
Hi8us South Ltd, London
To support the Tag Map interactive youth consultation website project. The project will enable the agency to engage and consult in a creative way with young people in the regeneration of their area.
Howard League, London
To enable young people to make effective impact into community safety and youth justice planning.
Motiv8, Portsmouth
To develop the Involvement Project enabling young people voice their views about ‘what works’ with regard to city wide services to reduce, prevent and stop offending amongst young people.
National Children’s Bureau
Review of children and youth people’s participation in village plan development.
Network 81, Stanstead
To support young people with special education needs to decide their own standards guidelines for quality of inclusion in mainstream schools, including developing best practice ideas for their involvement in decision-making.
Northern Ireland Youth Forum
To facilitate the development and publication of a Northern Ireland wide cross-sector Youth Participation Strategy.
Partners in Advocacy, Edinburgh
To establish a number of self-advocacy groups specifically for young people with learning difficulties
Public Achieve, Northern Ireland
To encourage and support young people to be active in their community around issues that they identify and are concerned about and which are of civic importance.
Redburn Community Centre NI Youth Group, Holywood, N, Ireland
To enable the group to hold an intergenerational conference to share their learning experience, launch a report, and demonstrate how young people can become more involved.
Trust for the Study of Adolescence
To carryout a review of support and campaigning groups, for the socially excluded such as young disabled people, young carers, and gay and lesbian young people and to produce a Good Practice Guide.
Wansbeck Council for Voluntary Service, Northumberland
To assist in the development and delivery of a Young People’s Equality Congress led by and for young people.
West Sussex Voluntary Organisations’ Liaison Group (VOLG), Billingshurst
To fund a part-time Training and Development Officer to lead on the planning and delivery of a consultative training event with Children’s Services providers and young people across the County.
Woodcraft Folk in Wales
To increase the numbers and level of young people participating in the running of their Wales-wide environment sustainability project, focussing upon the theme of Participating in Democracy.
Young Scot Enterprise, Edinburgh
to support a group of pilot initiatives to test the technical and social infrastructure for E-Voting, E-Consultation and Smart Citizenship.
Youth Action Network, Birmingham
To fund a Youth Participation Support Worker, to develop youth participation within YAN activities and more widely.
Youthlink Scotland, Edinburgh
to work with youth workers and other local authority staff across departments in three local authorities, to monitor and evaluate their approach for involving young people.