Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Announces £1m Youth-Led Creativity Funding Programme

Co-designed with Esmée's Involving Young People Collective, applications reopen from 14 February. 

The programme has been co-designed with Esmée’s Involving Young People Collective. A panel of young consultants will play a key role in the assessment process for the Fund. This is to ensure the views and voices of young people are at the heart of the programme.

The Youth-Led Creativity programme builds on young people's power to make change, use creativity to enhance their lives, develop their careers, and influence the world around them.

Support focuses on work led by and for young people who have less access to creative programmes or who are underrepresented in arts and culture.

This includes young people who:

• are D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent
• are from communities experiencing racial inequity
• are economically or educationally disadvantaged
• identify as LGBT+
• have migration or care experience

Full information about the scheme, criteria, funding guidance and how to apply here.

Watch a Q&A webinar below about this Youth-Led Creativity funding, opening for applications on 14 February.