Brighter Futures Fund

2025 Fund

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

The Young Westminster Foundation Brighter Futures Fund aims to increase long-term funding for youth provision in Westminster. Established in 2019, the Fund is designed to respond to the changing needs of children and young people in the borough.

We are offering grants of up to £20,000.
Please note our applications deadline: 10am Monday 3 November 2025.

This funding is made available by Westminster City Council as well as several corporate and funding partners who support the Young Westminster Foundation.

Funding focus

Our funding priorities:

• Projects which offer engaging activities for children and young people
• Projects which demonstrate how they are responding to a local need
• Projects which give children and young people access to opportunities
• Organisations that are embedded within the Westminster Community.

Our funding aims are to help ensure that all “Children and Young People are happy and healthy, with access to a diverse range of activities and opportunities to support their physical, mental health and emotional wellbeing within the post- pandemic context, environmental challenges, and rising cost of living pressures”, and that “All our young people feel listened to, empowered to take action and have opportunities to co-produce/co-design services that affect them” as set out in the Bi-Borough Children and Young People’s Plan.

We  encourage providers to consider the needs of young people as identified in our youth-led needs analysis Our City Our Future 2023/24, to work with Youth and Family Hubs across Westminster, and to adhere to the Early Help Strategy 2022 – 2025.

Eligibility

This fund is only open to members of the Young Westminster Foundation.

Funding is solely for the provision of new or existing programmes (including pilots) that benefit children and young people aged 0-25 in Westminster.

Grants can be used to cover project, activity, or programme costs, venue costs, or capital equipment directly related to the services.

Timeframe

All grant funded projects must be completed within 12 months of the award or agreed start date (unless agreed otherwise).

If you have any questions about the guidance or the application form please email hazel@youngwestminster.com to arrange an online meeting on either Tuesday 14 October or Thursday 23 October.

How to Apply

Before completing the application, please download and review our Brighter Futures Fund Guidance to ensure you meet all eligibility criteria.

Apply online: applicants must apply using our online SurveyMonkey form.

We recommend that you prepare your answers in advance and upload them in one sitting, as you cannot save and return to it later. You can move back and forth through the pages of the Survey Monkey form to review the questions.

You may find it helpful to view and download a PDF copy of the Brighter Futures Fund 2025 Application Questions to help you prepare your answers.

If you encounter any issues completing the form, please contact hazel@youngwestminster.com.

Click here to find out more about the projects supported through last year’s Brighter Futures Fund.

DOWNLOAD BRIGHTER FUTURES FUND GUIDANCE

REFERENCE PDF: BRIGHTER FUTURES FUND APPLICATION QUESTIONS

Please note: we have shifted our application process to an online form held on Survey Monkey.

OVER £380,000 AWARDED TO YWF MEMBERS IN 2023.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE 2023 RECIPIENTS