Criminal Justice – Funding

Policy and Research

Through this programme we will fund research or policy development work that cover issues relating to young adults in the criminal justice system.

We recommend contacting us for advice before making an application for a policy or research project. Please complete our enquiry  form here or phone 020 7632 9068.  For help with using our on-line system, click here.

If  you have already submitted an enquiry form or discussed your project with us and we have invited you to submit a full application,  click here to start a new policy and research projects application form.  To return to a form you have already started, click here.  To download a guide to using our on-line account system, click here.

Grassroots

The Barrow Cadbury Trust will consider funding applications from organisations who are looking to set up projects that are focussed on young people through their transition to adulthood (approximately 16-24). Projects must be based in the local community and address the underlying causes of crime. We expect that young people will play an active role in projects we fund.

While we are primarily seeking to fund criminal justice related projects that address the needs of young people, we are also be interested to receive applications for projects that have a focus on gender or ethnicity.

We will only be able to support a small number of projects, with potential grant awards of up to £20,000 per year. Funding is not available as a replacement for statutory funding. We are only able to fund grassroots projects based in Birmingham or the Black Country (Wolverhampton, Dudley, West Bromwich, Walsall, Smethwick, Sandwell).

We will consider projects that seek to reduce the risk of young people becoming involved in crime, and that reduce the number of young people involved in the criminal justice process.

Project are likely to include one or more of the following:

• Routes to education, training or employment for young people in the community and/or those leaving custody;
• Mentoring and individualised support;
• Interventions to help improve behaviour, life skills and self-esteem;
• Restorative justice, involving the victims of crime;
• Other activities that support desistance from crime.

Organisations funded through this programme must be able to show that they:

• Are able to evaluate the impact of their work;
• Have a plan for the project to become sustainable beyond our funding;
• Understand the issues faced by young people with social problems;
• Will work with the local community and statutory partners to deliver solutions to the causes of offending.

To make an application, please complete our enquiry  form here, or phone 020 7632 9068.  To return to a form you have already started, click here.  For help with using our on-line system, click here.

If  you have already submitted an enquiry form or discussed your project with us and we have invited you to submit a full application, click here to start a new grant application form.  To return to a form you have already started, click here.  To download a guide to using our on-line account system, click here.

We strongly suggest you submit an enquiry form or discuss your project with us before spending time on a full application.