Youth Services Grant Scheme (YSGS) Pilot 2024-2025 Inviting Applications

Funding

Following review of the Youth Services Grant Scheme (YSGS), the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth is now seeking applications for YSGS funding from eligible organisations that have not previously received funding under the YSGS from DCEDIY.

This pilot process is only for applicant organisations that have not previously received funding. Existing organisations receiving funding under the YSGS will continue to use the existing application process for the year 2025.

The YSGS will be administered by the Youth Affairs Unit of DCEDIY.

For all details of the scheme please refer to the Guidance Note available below.

The objective of the YSGS is to fund high-quality youth services that provide for and respond to the interests and needs of children and young people, that are open and accessible to all, and that involve participants in service planning and decision-making.

To this end the YSGS provides funding for the effective delivery by youth organisations, operating with appropriate governance and oversight, of quality youth services to young people that support their social and personal development. The Scheme also provides funding to organisations that provide the necessary sectoral supports to facilitate the delivery of such services, including through such activities as:

• Representing the shared interests of voluntary youth organisations

• Promoting the development of evidence-informed, high-quality specialist youth work practice

• Capacity building and professional development for youth workers and volunteers, including specialist training for working with particular cohorts of young people, and

• Providing a platform to educate and inform young people about the importance of holistic well-being.

A full guide to the application process is provided in the Guidance Note below.

Only applications submitted using the template YSGS Application Form (attached at Appendix 1 of the Guidance Note) will be considered for YSGS funding under this current pilot application process.

Applications must be submitted by email to [email protected] by 6pm on 16 September 2024.

An applicant’s application will be considered in two stages:

1. Eligibility to apply and the provision of key documents, and

2. Assessment of the applicant’s responses to the questions outlined in the YSGS Application Form and detailed in Section 4 of the Guidance Note.

Guidance Note, YSGS Pilot Application Process for New Applicants: https://assets.gov.ie/302177/653e659d-33e3-4d7b-b831-c38f097f3dd0.pdf

Application Form, YSGS Pilot Application Process for New Applicants: https://assets.gov.ie/302178/005a839b-ce8e-4f5b-a96f-f35c508be146.docx