The Trust holds two grants rounds per year:
- The Spring round is for proposals wanting to work with young people who already have a criminal conviction.
- The Autumn round is for proposals focused on targeted work with high-risk young people on the edge of the criminal justice system.
The Trust’s funding in 2025 focuses on supporting work with young women and girls who are already in contact with the criminal justice system and those who are highly vulnerable to entering it.
The Trust is looking for proposals that target the most high risk young women and girls and applications will need to demonstrate that they are linked to schemes such as Out of Court Disposals and Point of Arrest Diversion initiatives as well as services working with those known to be at risk, such as girls who are looked after and those who are outside of education or on the edge of being excluded.
Applicant organisations will also need to show that they have strong links with Youth Offending Teams, probation, PRUs, schools and other relevant local partners who come into contact with this group of vulnerable young women and girls.
The Autumn 2025 funding opportunity is only open to organisations where at least 80% of the total beneficiaries of the whole organisation are women and girls.
There is particular interest in projects working with young women and girls who are either care-experienced, come from Black or minoritized/racialised communities, are neurodiverse, excluded from school or vulnerable to being so, are involved with gangs and county lines, and work that is led by people with lived experience. A maximum of £40,000 per year can be requested.
The second round open 16 September 2025 and close 20 October 2025. All applicants notified if shortlisted on 18 December 2025.