Young K&C is committed to supporting local charity and voluntary organisations through grant giving.
We invest funds into the local community to support growth and development for local children and young people by stimulating inclusive play, learning and fun. As a local funder, we are committed to ensuring all organisations eligible for our grants have an equal opportunity to accessing the funds.
Through working together with local business and funders, including the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the K+C Foundation, our grants cater to local needs. It is also vital to us that young voices are central in conversations that will determine their future. Young K&C grant panels are led by our Young Ambassadors to ensure funds are given to the opportunities young people need and value most.
We seek to fund a mixture of projects and core costs to support voluntary organisations in their range of needs. The areas we fund are informed by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Youth Inform Review, prioritising 5 key themes for children and young people.
5 KEY THEMES
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Inclusivity
Make youth services more inclusive, especially for children and young people with SEND by developing sector training and working with partners to improve the overall offer
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Learning and Employability
Work closely with partners to celebrate, strengthen and connect the sector and better promote the diverse range of youth services available across the borough to ensure young people lead happy, healthy lives
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Physical and Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health
Strengthen the role of youth clubs in improving young people’s physical, mental health and emotional wellbeing by maintaining the mental health worker offer, delivering competitive sports
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Safe and Secure Spaces
Strengthen pathways between youth services and other third spaces across the borough to ensure activities are offered from a range of sites for young people
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Celebrating and strengthening the sector
Work with partners, organisations and local funders to celebrate, strengthen and connect the voluntary and community sector
Youth Empowerment Grant Programme
The Youth Empowerment Grant Programme (2025-2030), in partnership with RBKC, is designed to support the voluntary and community sector in delivering top-tier play and youth services. It consists of three grant streams: Main Grants, Small Grants and Making Space Grants. Our goal is to build and strengthen partnerships across the public, private, and voluntary sectors, ensuring that every child and young person in the borough has access to the support they need.
RBKC has committed to funding of £4,700,000 over five years, with Young K&C committed to raising match funding of £750,000 over the same period.
Training Microgrant: Supporting organisations invest in their people and strengthen capacity
Young K&C is proud to be working in partnership with John Lyon's Charity to deliver the Small Grants Training Microgrant.
This microgrant has been created using underspend from the 2026 Small Grants programme. We want to make sure this money reaches organisations in the sector and is used in a way that makes a real difference to the people working with children and young people across Kensington and Chelsea.
Grants of up to £1,000 are available to fund training, learning and professional development that will directly enhance service delivery.
Supplementary School Fund
Young K&C is delighted to be working in partnership with the Lightbulb Trust and John Lyon’s Charity to distribute grants for supplementary schools in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
The Supplementary Schools Grant Programme aims to provide financial support to help supplementary schools reach and benefit more children and young people in the community. This grant is designed to cover core and service delivery costs, helping supplementary schools in Kensington and Chelsea to enhance their support for children and young people.
Our grants work to ensure all children and young people in Kensington & Chelsea have access to high quality support in their local area.
360Giving Grants Data
Young K&C is committed to transparency, and we work with 360Giving to publish information about our grants using the 360Giving Data Standard. Our awarded grants since 2026 are available as an Excel file (.csv).
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You can view the licence terms on the Creative Commons site. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to be used and shared as they wish. The data must be attributed to Young K&C. We believe that with better information, funders can be more informed, effective and strategic decision-makers.
360Giving supports funders to publish open data about their grants, makes the data available in a range of free online tools and supports people to use this data to improve charitable giving through a more informed understanding of the grantmaking picture.
Questions about grants?
We welcome local business, organisations or charities who wish to collaborate or support our members through a grant programme. If you or your organisation would like to find out more on how you can contribute to our grants, please get in touch using the contact details below.
As part of our work to support local voluntary organisations, we also want to hear from the charities that are looking for funding or have previously received a grant from us. We want to make sure all organisations have equal access to securing a grant from us. Please get in touch using the contact details below if you have any suggestions for supporting the development of our grant programme:
Sarah Lam | Grants and Impact Officer
sarah@youngkandc.org.uk
