FYA back young people to make the change they want to see in the world. These grants aim to support under-resourced youth-led groups and grassroots campaigns with lived experience of injustice, by providing the resources they need to make a positive difference and helping them take care of themselves and their communities.

FYA is offering two types of grants:
– Youth Action Grants: $5,000 to $15,000 to fund actions that create systemic change (up to $75,000 in total). Grants are for youth-led groups seeking funds to advance tangible campaign goals or develop campaigns
– Wellbeing Grants: $2,000 to $5,000 to support the wellbeing of youth-led groups to keep up the fight sustainably (up to $25,000 in total). Grants are for youth-led groups seeking funds to develop wellbeing initiatives that aim to build resilience, strengthen connections and address burnout as they campaign for change.

FYA will back up the grants with wraparound support from FYA’s Youth Action Team. Youth-led groups who receive grants will be part of a program which includes:
– Coaching and training in a number of valuable skills including media, digital and social media, strategy development, team culture and wellbeing, community organising, and intersectionality
– Support to increase monitoring and evaluation skills to build the evidence base of their work, assisting with securing ongoing sustainable funding for long term change.

FYA will prioritise funding for:
– Grassroots campaigns, projects, organisations and movements. By grassroots, we mean campaigns, projects and movements that are based in community and not attached to a large organisation
– Current funding: Campaigns/organisations who don’t currently have much funding or funding opportunities
– Lived experience: Organisations, communities or campaigns that are led by people who have lived experience being disabled or LGBTQI+, of poverty, of racism, of gender discrimination, being in the justice system, state care, mental health system, impacts of climate change and/or housing instability.

FYA are open to funding a wide array of activities, limited only by your imagination and the following criteria:
– The application must be on behalf of a group, organisation or community, not an individual, and based in Australia
– Groups or campaigns must be led by young people under the age of 30 with lived experience of the issues they are campaigning on
– The group or campaign must have a tangible goal or goals, which must be focused on structural change (eg. not awareness raising or training/education, but funding for training as part of a campaign for structural change fits within the criteria)
– Campaign goals must be aligned with FYA’s values.

Click here to view full funding guidelines on the provider’s website.