Pears Youth Fund 2022

Pears Youth Fund is a partnership with Pears Foundation. The Fund supports youth organisations in Leeds and Bradford, providing unrestricted grants to help with organisations’ core costs or project delivery. By doing this, the Fund helps to give young people a voice in society through youth work, empowerment and engagement. 

The latest round of Pears Youth Fund invested just over £110,000 in 12 Community Organisations in the summer of 2022. 

The organisations that were awarded funding are: 

• • • • Bangladeshi Youth Organisation (BYO), Bradford 

• • • • BARCA Leeds, Leeds 
      • Brave Words CIC, Leeds 
      • CATCH Leeds, Leeds 
      • e:merge (UK) Limited, Bradford 
      • Play Bradford, Bradford 

• • • • Reestablish, Leeds 
      • SNAPS (Special Needs And Parent Support) Yorkshire CIO, Leeds 
      • St Christopher’s Family Centre, Bradford 
      • The Geraldine Connor Foundation, Leeds 
      • The Valley Project, Bradford 

• • • • tutti frutti productions, Leeds 

Some of these organisations were awarded grants to contribute to their core costs. Other funded activities include: 

• • • • Establishing a Youth Forum which will develop young people’s leadership, communication and teamwork skills, amplify their voices and empower them with improved self-confidence. 
      • Committing staff resources to support a cohort of young volunteers as they begin their volunteering journey. Volunteers will develop skills and knowledge to support them in their futures. 

• • • • A weekly opportunity for young people to connect, build relationships, gain confidence and learn self-care. Trained staff will work with groups of young people, as well as one-to-one, to listen to them and respond to their needs. 
      • Recruiting a Trainee Producer to support the organisation with a year-long period of growth and development. 

These organisations join many funded through Pears Youth Fund since it first opened in 2017. To-date, the Fund has awarded almost 60 grants and over £450,000, and almost 5,500 young people have benefited. We look forward to sharing more about the ways in which young people benefit from this round, once activity is complete. 

For more information on grants awarded, visit the What We’ve Funded page.