Grants totalling up to $100,000, open to groups led by young people (under 30) across the country campaigning to create change.

These grants aim to support under-resourced youth-led groups and grassroots campaigns with lived experience of injusticee with the resources they need to make a positive difference, while helping them take care of themselves and their communities.

There are two grants:

• Youth Action Grants
  • $5,000 – $15,000 (one-off or per year for 2-3 years) to fund actions to create structural change. Funding pool of $75,000 in total.
• Wellbeing Grants
  • $2,000 – $5,000(one-off or per year for 2-3 years) to support the wellbeing of youth-led groups to keep up the fight sustainably. Funding pool of $25,000 in total.

The funder will back up the grants with wraparound support from FYA's Youth Action Team. Youth-led groups who receive grants will be offered coaching and training in a number of valuable skills including media, digital and social media, strategy development, team culture and wellbeing, community organising, and intersectionality.

The funder will also work with grantees to embed and increase monitoring and evaluation skills to build the evidence base of their work, which will assist with securing ongoing sustainable funding for long term change.

• The application must be on behalf of a group, organisation or community, not an individual, and based in Australia.
• Groups or campaigns must be led by young people under the age of 30 with lived experience of the issues they are campaigning on.
• The group or campaign must have a tangible goal or goals, which must be focused on structural change (eg. the funder will not fund awareness raising, service provision or training/education, unless as part of a campaign for structural change).
• Campaign goals must be aligned with FYA's values.
• Funds must be spent by the end of October the year after they are granted, and can't be used for activities that are unlawful, or promote or oppose a political party or candidate as part of an election.
• Each group can apply for only one Youth Action and one Wellbeing grant each (a multi-year grant is considered one grant).

• Email: pablo.brait@fya.org.au