For youth charities

Grants, compliance and impact — for UK youth charities.

CharityIQ helps youth charities find and win the grants that pay for frontline provision, stay on the right side of the Charity Commission, and prove the outcomes funders ask for — grounded in your own data, every figure sourced.

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The reality for youth charities

  • Funding is short-term and restricted. Youth provision runs on one-year grants you have to re-win every spring — usually while you are still delivering the programme.
  • Funders want outcomes you have no time to evidence — attendance, behaviour, destinations — scattered across registers, consent forms and individual workers’ memories.
  • One part-time fundraiser, or none. The youth worker writing the bid at 11pm is the same person running tomorrow’s session.

How CharityIQ helps

AI grant writing

Draft applications to youth funders in your charity’s voice, grounded in your beneficiary numbers and each funder’s published priorities — with every claim cited so you can send it with confidence.

Charity Commission compliance

Annual return and SORP 2026 reporting handled, with the trustee-duty and safeguarding checks that matter most for organisations working with under-18s.

Impact measurement

Turn attendance registers and young people’s feedback into the outcomes funders fund — engagement, reduced risk, and positive destinations into education, employment or training.

Funders for youth charities

BBC Children in Need One of the UK’s largest funders of work with disadvantaged children and young people. Youth Endowment Fund Funds and evaluates work that prevents children and teenagers becoming involved in violence. #iWill Fund A £20m programme (administered by the National Lottery Community Fund) backing youth social action, with grants from £30,000. John Lyon’s Charity Around £15m a year for children and young people up to age 25 across nine north-west London boroughs. The National Lottery Community Fund Awards for All (£300–£10,000) and Reaching Communities (£20,000+) for grassroots youth work UK-wide.

A snapshot of current UK funders · reviewed June 2026. CharityIQ’s Grant Finder matches you to the ones you’re eligible for.

Running a smaller organisation? See our guide to grants for small charities.

Outcomes funders ask for

School attendance and engagement Reduction in offending and risk behaviour Positive destinations (education, employment, training) Youth social-action participation Validated wellbeing measures

Not sure how to evidence these outcomes? Start with our free theory of change template.

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Frequently asked

Major current funders include BBC Children in Need, the Youth Endowment Fund, the #iWill Fund (via the National Lottery Community Fund), John Lyon’s Charity for north-west London, and the National Lottery Community Fund’s Awards for All and Reaching Communities. CharityIQ’s free Grant Finder matches your charity to the ones you are actually eligible for.

Yes — it pre-populates your Charity Commission annual return, drafts a SORP 2026-ready Trustees’ Annual Report, and flags trustee-duty and policy gaps, including the safeguarding governance expected of charities working with under-18s.

It turns your attendance registers and beneficiary feedback into funder-ready outcomes — engagement, reduced risk, and destinations into education, employment or training — with a validated wellbeing measure where a funder asks for one.

Built for youth charities doing the most with the least.

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