{"id":13032,"date":"2016-11-24T11:50:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T11:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=13032"},"modified":"2016-11-24T11:50:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T11:50:47","slug":"introducing-the-new-iwill-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2016\/11\/introducing-the-new-iwill-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the new #iwill Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ee_editable eev_element\">\n<p><strong>The #iwill Fund<\/strong> aims to transform the culture of community engagement and social action among <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">10-20<\/span> year\u00a0olds. Funding is available for regional and national organisations that develop opportunities for young people to participate in social action.<\/p>\n<p>The first three match-funders have been announced that will distribute the funds from a central investment pot created by the Government and Big Lottery Fund. To find out more about applying check out the organisations below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bigmail.org.uk\/3V8D-4A1A-1AWLPE-1VZXN-1\/c.aspx\">Pears Foundation<\/a> will be supporting activity within education, health and social care as well as scaling and supporting successful models to grow or sustain.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bigmail.org.uk\/3V8D-4A1A-1AWLPE-1VZXO-1\/c.aspx\">UK Community Foundations<\/a> will create small grants for local social action opportunities through their network of 43 Community Foundations across England.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bigmail.org.uk\/3V8D-4A1A-1AWLPE-1VZXP-1\/c.aspx\">Comic Relief<\/a> will develop opportunities for young people from areas and backgrounds currently least likely to participate; working in co-production with young people over the next few months to design the initiative to launch in Spring 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Essentially \u00a340 of seed funding from the government up to 2020 will aim to engage 10-20 year olds into Social Action.\u00a0 There is a website with lots more information here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwill.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.iwill.org.uk<\/a> with a useful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwill.org.uk\/about-us\/the-iwill-fund-frequently-asked-questions\/?utm_campaign=199630_England%20November%202016%20news&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=The%20Big%20Lottery%20Fund&amp;Ref=email&amp;dm_i=3V8D,4A1A,1AWLPE,DPCS,1\" target=\"_blank\">FAQ page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-13032\" data-postid=\"13032\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-13032 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The #iwill Fund aims to use \u00a340 of government seed-funding up to 2020 in order to engage people aged 10-20 in Social Action. This week the first three organisations that will deliver and distribute the funding have been announced. Read on for more information about the fund, the providers and what next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[13,128],"tags":[81,413,414],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-3oc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13032"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13033,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13032\/revisions\/13033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}