Starbucks/UK Youth - Youth Action grants

By James Laverty - last updated on 17 January 2012

Starbucks Youth Action provides grants of up to £2000 to help young people aged 16-24 run community change projects in their local area.

Starbucks Youth Action that aims to encourage and inspire a generation of young people to take action and create positive local change. Starbucks has joined up with UK Youth and the Irish Youth Foundation to provide training, support and funding to young people from 10 cities in the UK and Ireland.

The scheme covers Greater London, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, Leeds and Manchester.

Essentially the project supports young people to improve their communities. The project must create positive social change and enable young people between 16 - 24 to be inspired to create such change in their local community.

There are grants of up to £2,000 available for seed funding and volunteer hours from Starbucks partners. As well as supporting the young people to bring to life the projects that mean the most to them, there is also training on offer to young people on managing a budget, working with volunteers and project management.

At the end of the first year there were 50 projects supported.