Youth Voice in Funding

As a collaboration of funders, we need to become more efficient and effective in our ways of working, while being true to our principles of listening and sharing power with children and young people.

This group aims to embed a way of working to ensure children and young people’s voices are at the heart of future funding strategies for children and young people.

Youth Voice in Funding is a space where young people and funders come together:

• To share best practise on embedding youth voice within funding and organisations
• To run youth-led sessions on topics identified by young people as areas of need, e.g. youth employment/opportunities, mental health, climate, the value of youth work
• To act as the ‘bridge’ between funders wishing to increase knowledge of specific topic areas and lead children and young people representatives, so that knowledge is shared across all funders in one space and one time
• To build a ‘map’ of quality youth voice across locations and theme areas, in order to identify gaps and to maximise future funding opportunities as a collaborative
• To celebrate the impact and power of youth voice and create a ripple effect to encourage other organisations to start their journeys in involving young people.