Community experiences 2023

NCS Trust has announced a significant investment to help young people, focusing on community-based experiences at a local level. Find out more today.

These new experiences will complement NCS’ existing away from home residential offering by providing more opportunities for teenagers to engage in local activities that foster skills development, deepen their understanding of the community, and empower them to contribute positively to its improvement.  The grants will also support organisations that cater to specific groups of young people who may not have participated in previous NCS initiatives. 

In collaboration with the National Youth Agency and StreetGames, NCS has selected local organisations to deliver year-round activities for 16-17 year olds over the next two years.

Open to All Grants: These year-round grants are for regularly scheduled programmes that are embedded in young people’s local communities, with structure and support from NCS Trust, but locally tailored by the grantees.

Targeted Grants: These grants may be given for scaling your existing intervention, or trialling a new innovation, with targeted groups of young people. We will offer a variety of larger and smaller grants, creating opportunities for national or regional organisations, alongside small grassroots organisations.

Community experience grantees

Please note that some of these organisations will be working with further partners to deliver experiences for NCS - once their plans have been finalised these will be added.

Open to All

Bradford City FC Community Foundation
Cambridgeshire County Council
Catch22 Charity Ltd
Changing Young Lives
Children North East
EFL Trust
Flying Futures C.I.C
Groundwork London
Hear2Listen C.I.C.
London Youth
Personal Best Education
Rotherham United Community Sports Trust
UK S Futures C.I.C.
Young Bristol

Targeted

Active Lancashire
AFC Wimbledon Foundation
All Star Entertainment Ltd
Ambition Aspire Achieve
Argyle Community Trust
Autismable
Barca Leeds
Blackpool FC Community Trust
Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council Youth Services
Bradford City FC Community Foundation 
C&K Careers Ltd
Cambridgeshire County Council
Catch22 Charity Ltd
Changing Young Lives
Child Dynamix
Children North East
Concordia (UK) Ltd
Dallaglio RugbyWorks
Dorset Community Action
Firvale Community Hub
Flying Futures CIC
Girlguiding
Groundwork South
Hat-Trick (Centre-West)
Higher Rhythm Limited
Hope Collective CIC
HYPE Merseyside
iAspire2 CIC
Inner Flame
Ipswich Community Media and Learning
Kirklees Youth Alliance CIO
Knowsley Youth Mutual Ltd trading as Vibe
Lancashire Association of Boys and Girls Clubs
Leicester City in the Community
Life Chance Trust
MAP (Mancroft Advice Project)
Margaret Carey Foundation
Mayor’s Fund for London
Melanin Medics
Merseyside Youth Association
Michael Streete Foundation
Motivezcic CIC (Motivez)
Music and Arts Production Leeds
MYTIME Young Carers
North East Lincolnshire Council Young People’s Support Services
Northern Stage
Northumberland Wildlife Trust
Norwich City Community Sports Foundation
NYBEP Ltd
Oasis Community Partnerships
OnSide Youth Zones
Organge Bow CIC
Petroc
Portland College
Positive Youth Foundation
SAYes Mentoring
Sculpt
Shropshire Youth Support Trust
Sky Blues in the Community
South Tyneside Council
Sport in Mind
Success4All CIO
Tameside Youth Service, Tameside MBC
Tamworth Amateur Boxing Club
Teen Action
The Catalyst Collective Organisation CIC
The Children’s Society
The Key 
Training Cave Club LTD
Unloc
Volunteering Matters
WE are IVE Ltd
West Ham United Foundation 
Wigan Boys and Girls Club
WomenZone
XLP Youth Charity
YMCA North Staffordshire
YMCA North Tyneside
Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust

For more information, email grants@ncstrust.org.uk