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Young Change Makers Fellowship

We are delighted you are interested in becoming a Virgin Money Foundation Youth Fellow. This is an exciting opportunity to create change in your community while growing your skills and networks as a social leader. Through this programme we will provide funding, mentoring and leadership development. Successful Fellows will also have the opportunity to travel to research other community projects and work with a peer group of exceptional young people committed to creating change.

If you’re successful at the first stage, you’ll be invited to meet the team and the Foundation Youth Advisors in June or July 2021. If you’re one of the ten young people accepted onto the programme, you will need to be available for six months from September/October 2021. We are currently planning for all activity to be online. If restrictions change and we can meet in person, we will do so.

Applications will close on Monday 17 May 2021.

Applications from young people living in communities that need our support the most will take priority. We do this by comparing your home address to the UK Government Index of Multiple Deprivation. If you are a student and currently living away from home please apply using what you consider to be your home address. This must be in the North East, North West or Yorkshire and the Humber. If you are currently studying, please also be aware that if successful, you will need to be available for six months from May 2021. Attendance at a three/four day residential at the start of the programme, monthly training and workshops, mentoring and peer support sessions are required to successfully continue with the Fellowship.

We’re happy to accept a video application if you prefer or you can send us both. Please attach it using the option at the bottom of this page, but don’t forget to answer the questions in this form. Please put ‘attached video’ in the question fields. Please note there is a total file upload limit and no one individual file can be over 25MB. If you have trouble uploading video you can send it to info@virginmoneyfoundation.org.uk via We Transfer.

Your details

Title

First Name

Last Name

Age

Contact number

Home address

Post code

Confirm which programme you wish to apply to.

Fellowship details

Please confirm which area you live in.

Please choose a working title for your Fellowship.

This could be the community in which you live i.e. voices of Pennywell or the area you'd most like to work to create change

Tell us about yourself. What are you passionate about? What is really important to you and why? Who has inspired you? What makes you a great choice for this programme?

Maximum word limit: 500

Please tell us about your local community, what change would you like to create and why? Do you live here full-time?How long have you lived here? What have you done so far to help to make a difference to the issue you want to see change in your community?.

Maximum word limit: 500

As well as a grant, young people on the programme will have access to training, mentoring and introductions to other social entrepreneurs. What do you think you’ll gain most from the Fellowship?

Maximum word limit: 500

Chosen Fellows will be able to plan and take a trip of up to four weeks. If you get the grant, where would you like to go and why? We understand plans may change and are flexible on when you use this.

Maximum word limit: 500

What you need to attach to this application

Please attach your current CV.

We also need you to attach two references. We can accept references from a current or former employer or an employee of an organisation where you’ve recently volunteered. The reference can also come from your current or former educator or a staff member at a group you attend.

Please confirm today's date

The Virgin Money Foundation would like to keep in touch with you by post, phone or email to inform you about any of our future activities, if you are happy to hear from us please confirm.

The personal information you and other individuals supply, as well as information already held, may be used by the companies within our group including the Virgin Money Foundation in a number of ways, for example;

• to assess and process applications

• to verify the identity of individuals associated with applications

• to prevent fraud and money laundering

• to manage our relationship

• for audit purposes, research and statistical analysis

• to keep in touch with you about your application and/or the management of the grant.

Full details of the companies within our group can be found at our website virginmoney.com/privacy.

The Virgin Money Foundation also may share any information that you have provided in connection with an application to our Young Change Makers Fellowship with Northern Soul (NS) and the Foundation Youth Advisors (YA) as part of our partnership. Any such information will be used, and shared with NS and YA, for the purposes of ascertaining whether a grant will be awarded to the applicant. In the event that an application is successful, the Virgin Money Foundation may continue to share with NS any information regarding you and the grant for as long as you are in receipt of funding or other support from the Virgin Money Foundation and NS.

By submitting your application, you confirm your consent to any information that you provide being shared with the Virgin Money Group companies and NS.

Where you provide information about other people you must obtain their appropriate consent before doing so. Nothing in this application shall restrict the Virgin Money Foundation from awarding grants with the same or similar purposes to other future applicants.

Please note by pressing review your application has not yet been submitted. We advise you to click review, print a copy for your records and then press confirm on the following page. Once submitted you will receive an email.

Good luck!

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