EMR - Building Brighter Futures Fund
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The Building Brighter Futures Fund is designed to ignite the dreams of often-overlooked young people and ensure they are given every chance to build a fairer, brighter future for themselves.
Will fund projects design to support young people aged 11-19 (or up to 25 years for young people with additional needs) that deliver improvements in young people's perception of their personal development and sense of purpose. This can include:
- Relationships: projects that help young people to develop the right network around them, whether that's through nurturing interpersonal skills, deepening their understanding of others, or developing their respect for people from all backgrounds.
- Health and wellbeing: projects that help young people across all the areas of wellbeing - whether that's helping them to feel happier, better manage feelings and emotions, increase their confidence, self-awareness and self-esteem or make more informed choices for their own physical, mental and emotional health.
- Career and education: projects that open doors for young people – help them to build important new skills; achieve their full potential in education or move into a job or start work-related training.
Grants will be awarded for work which will begin April 2026 and completed by December 2026; a 9 month delivery period.
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Geographical areas funded: Scotland UK
Fund type
- Type of funding:
- Grant
- Type of cost:
- Capital, Revenue, Core costs
Fund award sizes
- Maximum:
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- Annually awarded:
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Who can apply
Small to medium-sized organisations that work with young people aged 11–19 (or up to 25 for those with additional needs). Applicants must:
- Have a strong understanding of the issues affecting young people and a proven history of delivering services and activities, making a positive difference to their lives
- Have the expertise to collaborate effectively with partners, referral agencies and other stakeholders
- Have robust outcome monitoring and reporting methods and be able to contribute to the Fund’s Social Value questionnaires required for this grants programme.
When to apply
Applications for 2026 are now open. Deadline to apply: 5pm on 11th January 2026
Next deadline: 11 Jan 2026
How to apply
Apply on their website
Exclusions
Activites funded: Befriending and mentoring Education and training Employability services Health care and wellbeing Health education and promotion Mental health care Sport and physical activity
Beneficiaries funded: Children Economically/socially disadvantaged Care experienced people Socially isolated people Unemployed Young people
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