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Funding is available to registered charities, not-for-profit social enterprises, and community interest companies working with vulnerable young women and girls across the UK who have been in the criminal justice system or who are at a high risk of entering it.
The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund offers grants of up to £80,000 over two years (£40,000 per year) for projects to reduce the number of those who receive a first conviction or reoffend.
Applicants must demonstrate approaches that are age, gender, trauma, and culturally responsive, focusing on projects providing peer support from women with lived experience and co-designed by young women and girls.
Priority will be given to applications that are targeting young women and girls who are care experienced, are neurodiverse, are outside of education or close to exclusion, have known involvement in gangs or county lines or are from Black or minoritised/racialised communities.
Examples of projects funded in the past include:
- Clean Break – Young Company (London) - A year-long creative programme for young women aged 18-25 with experience of, or at risk of, entering the criminal justice system. It includes theatre skills training, personal development, healing spaces, and a performance of a new short play.
- Anawim (Birmingham) – Holistic support for vulnerable young women aged 18-24 with histories of offending: includes therapeutic counselling, crisis intervention, wrap-around casework and other support, both in prison and community.
- 3Pillars Project (Nottingham/Sneinton) - Uses sports-based mentoring to divert young people at risk of offending. Engages them through sport to build social skills, communication, teamwork, control, and to reduce involvement in crime
Organisations must demonstrate that at least 80% of their beneficiaries are women and girls.
Applications are particularly encouraged from organisations working in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
The closing date for applications is the 20th October 2025.
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