Funding
Social Investment Business – Better Youth Spaces 
Deadline to apply 22nd September 2025
Size of Grant £5,000 - £100,000
Fund Type Community
About the funding

Funded by the UK Government and administered by Social Investment Business, this fund is aimed at youth not-for-profits in 42 priority areas of England.

Hull being a priority area. Better Youth Spaces is a capital grants fund for small scale-capital projects, including capital equipment, small refurbishments and other capital projects to help youth organisations to better support the young people they work with. The project must meet at least one of the fund objectives:

  • Improving the reach of activities provided
  • Improving the safety of existing youth facilities
  • Improve the youth sector’s capacity and quality to deliver a range of enrichment activities
  • Funding priority areas on the basis of youth need
  • Improving the financial sustainability of youth facilities

Applications that include refurbishment will have a short, fixed window to apply which will close at midnight on Sunday 31st August. The application window for all other applications will close at midnight on Monday 22nd September

Please note the fund could close earlier if it is heavily oversubscribed. 

View previous funding opportunity The LNER Customer and Communities Investment Fund (CCIF)
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