Summary
Youth Futures Foundation are seeking community-based Bangladeshi/Pakistani-led organisations to join a funded collaborative action research process to help us learn how best to fund them.
Aims and activities
Aims and questions
Aims and activities
Youth Futures Foundation are seeking to extend our Connected Futures Fund to include more community-based organisations led by people with Bangladeshi/Pakistani heritage.
Young people from these communities face particular disadvantage in the labour market, and we want to support experience-led responses to this. However, we haven’t succeeded in identifying /funding any organisations from these communities through our previous open funding round.
We therefore want to find organisations to join a collaborative action research process to identify priorities for these communities, key challenges and opportunities, and how we can best fund this work. We will provide small grants to participating organisations.
Given demographics, we are particularly focused on Greater Manchester, the West Midlands and South / West Yorkshire.
How to get involved
We are looking for recommendations / leads / contacts to organisations you might be working with who you think would be interested in participating.
We hope there will be learning from the process for other funders who are interested in supporting this community.
Who's involved
Who was involved
We are working with Action for Race Equality who will facilitate the action learning process.
Learning and Resources
71% of young minority ethnic people faced discrimination at work (Youth Futures Foundation survey)
Narrowing the gap: tackling ethnic disparities in youth employment (Youth Futures Foundation report)
