Youth Investment Fund
(asked on 17th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the programmes that were allocated funding from the Youth Investment Fund for youth programmes and supporting youth service delivery between 2017-18 and 2020-21.
Answered by
Stuart Andrew
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport originally launched a Youth Investment Fund programme in September 2016, which ran from 2016 to 2021. Following two rounds of applications, 91 funding awards were made in the six areas targeted by the programme. The six targeted areas were:
Bristol and Somerset
East London
Eastern regions
Liverpool City region
Tees Valley and Sunderland
West Midlands
A list of award recipients allocated funding from this programme, delivered between 2017 and 2021, can be found here.
In autumn 2019 the government announced a new Youth Investment Fund which is being delivered in two distinct phases.
Phase One of the Youth Investment Fund (YIF), administered by BBC Children in Need, delivered £12 million of funding in 2021-22 to over 400 local youth organisations in levelling up priority areas in England. Recipients of YIF Phase 1 can be found here.
Phase Two of the Youth Investment Fund opened for applications on 1 August 2022. No awards have yet been made.