Funding is available to registered charities, CICs, companies and statutory bodies to help support the delivery of state school education on healthy and respectful relationships. Organisations must have prior experience of carrying out similar interventions.
The Youth Endowment Fund's Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Prevention Programme forms part of a wider YEF programme of funding, evaluation and research over the next three years on what works to prevent and respond to VAWG.
This round focuses on the early stages of VAWG prevention through supporting the delivery of universal education on healthy and respectful relationships in state secondary schools (11–16 year olds). This is in alignment with 'Pillar 1: Prevention and Early Intervention' in the cross government strategy on VAWG, and the Department of Education's roll-out of the revised statutory Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) curriculum in September 2026.
Grants are at the discretion of the funders.
Applications are being invited under two main strands of delivery:
- Strand 1: Building secondary school capacity internally to deliver healthy relationships elements of RSHE provision, primarily through teacher training and support (but this may also include wider school approaches).
- Strand 2: Delivery of the healthy relationships elements of RSHE provision in schools by external specialist organisations or practitioners.
Across both strands applicants should have some prior experience of delivering the proposed project model. All projects must be delivered in England, and work with young people aged 11–16 in secondary school settings.
The delivery in schools is likely to start in September 2027 and must be finished by December 2028 at the latest.
A webinar will be held on 24 June 2026 (10.30am to 12 noon). Registration is required.
To apply and for full guidance, click here.