Camelot Foundation January deadline

The Foundation’s objective for the period 2002 – 2009 is to support work aimed at bringing marginalised young people into the mainstream of UK life

The Transforming Lives programme supports organisations across the UK that:

• Work with young people aged 11-25 especially those who are marginalised
• Have imaginative ideas for engaging young people in community life
• Share our values and commitment to change

We run four rounds of grant-making every year. Each round addresses a specific theme. This round’s theme is:

Tackling Prejudice: Working to reduce victimization and hate crime within and towards our priority groups

Our priority groups of young people are:

• Young parents or those at particular risk of becoming young parents
• Young exiles, newly arrived in the UK
• Young people with mental health problems
• Young disabled people

The issues the Foundation is seeking to address in this round:

Tackling Prejudice within and towards young people in our priority groups:

• The Camelot Foundation recognises that young people in our priority groups face prejudice in their daily lives.
• Victimisation and hate crime often go beyond causing offence or hostility for these young people
• Often such behaviour is motivated by race, colour, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, mental health (this list is not intended to be exhaustive but purely illustrative)
• Cultural diversity is not new to the UK, but the “multicultural” approach through which diversity policy has been shaped for the last four decades is now being called into question – has this contributed to the challenges that face young people in The Foundation’s priority groups?

Tackling the prejudice of young people:

• A Joseph Rowntree Foundation report Challenging racist attitudes and behaviour in young people found “a significant minority” of young people studied expressed dislike of other groups, especially refugees and asylum seekers and other newly arrived communities.
• Young people that commit an act of hate crime or victimization are likely to have been victims of prejudice themselves.

Full guidelines are available from the Camelot Foundation website.

The deadline for the current theme is 26 January 2007.

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