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Deadline: 7 July 2025.
Liverpool City Council has identified funding from the Public Health Grant to enable Merseyside Play Action Council (MPAC) to offer voluntary, community and faith sector (VCF) organisations in Liverpool the opportunity to apply for a grant for projects that enhances the capacity and availability of detached and outreach youth work support for children and young people in Liverpool during the school summer holidays (2025) which will lead to improvements in public health outcomes for children and young people in the city.
Programme Objectives
- To engage young people via either detached or outreach youth work.
- To work with young people to identify issues that can be further explored following the summer holidays.
- To gather evidence that identifies and supports the need for the provision of a longer-term service.
To do this, they are seeking projects that will:
- Expand: Enhance and extend existing community voluntary sector detached and outreach youth work provision.
Fill the gap: Direct enhanced detached and outreach youth work into ward areas where no or limited provision currently exists.
Pockets of need: Enable detached or outreach youth workers to respond in ward areas with identified temporary, seasonal or emerging needs (e.g. events, ASB, etc).
Programme Delivery
They are seeking applications for projects that are managed by voluntary and community sector organisations, including faith organisations, which achieve outcomes aligned with the above specified themes.
Projects will take place between July and September 2025 and organisations will be able to apply for grants of up to £15,000. Projects should aim to increase the availability and reach of detached and outreach youth work across the city during the school summer holidays. Projects should also include additional provision for evenings / weekends in September following the start of the school term.
The activity will be targeted at children and young people aged between 11 and 18 years of age.
Applications can be for new work, repeated work, or the support / upscaling of existing detached or outreach youth work.
Projects will be based on evidence of need. Successful organisations will be those that can demonstrate expertise and knowledge, with collaboration and partnership working, clear referral pathways and evaluation built in to all that they do.
The grants programmed will be managed by MPAC.
Click below to register or login if you have used the funding portal before. Please note that only organisations with experience of delivering detached or outreach work with young people in the past 12 months can apply and please be aware of the tight timescale involved.