The IYF is delighted to once again partner with Vhi to launch the Vhi Health & Wellbeing Fund. Open to not-for-project or charitable organisations we are seeking to deliver projects dedicated to supporting the resilience of young people aged 12-25 years old. Vhi and the Irish Youth Foundation are looking to support projects in the six locations where Vhi have operations in – Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny and Limerick.
As the country rebuilds, no child’s future should hang in the balance because of this virus or a lack of support. If our children aren’t re-built, the country isn’t either.
Levelling the playing field for
young people living in disadvantage
and their peers
Before the sudden onslaught of Covid 19, Ireland’s most marginalised children and young people were already struggling to secure a safe and solid foothold in society. Poverty and exclusion placed them at the furthest point distant from meaningful participation in education, from personal well-being, and from being able to make positive life choices.
All we’re missing are the resources and the prudent, caring leaders with the vision and values to partner us to transform a generation. All we’re missing is you. Please will you join us?
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Our Goal
Ensure that children experiencing economic and social hardship have the right people, programmes and facilities to turn to, in order to become agents of their own transformation and to have the chance of a brighter future.
Our Goal
Ensure that children experiencing economic and social hardship have the right people, programmes and facilities to turn to, in order to become agents of their own transformation and to have the chance of a brighter future.
3 Focus Areas
How do we do it?
Carefully targeted grant making to effective and impactful organisations that address and reverse the social and personal damage caused by poverty, educational disadvantage and social exclusion.
How do we do it?
Carefully targeted grant making to effective and impactful organisations that address and reverse the social and personal damage caused by poverty, educational disadvantage and social exclusion.
Why partner with us
Strengthened by knowledge
We listen to the voice of young people growing up in Ireland – we know where their needs are. We have put in place:
- A Youth Panel who advise and consult with us
- A Quarterly Omnibus Research Tracker that harvests relevant data, mood and sentiment of young people nationwide
- Database of best-in-class youth projects
- Forensic on-the-ground intelligence and an inside track on the most effective organisations that are best placed to deliver the greatest evidenced-based programmes and outcomes
- We employ a partnership approach to involve all our stakeholders to proactively identify emerging issues and new initiatives that will deliver the greatest impacts
Underpinned by robust structures, systems and governance
Our unique characteristics and qualities include:
- Experienced, trusted grant makers with a long standing reputation since 1985
- Lean and highly experienced leadership team
- Ensure clear and transparent assessment processes for grants
- Experience in developing fund criteria and applications that reflect the size of a grant, and yet protect small projects / programmes from unreasonable demands
- Processes for implementing good communication, publicity tools and events to further increase both fundraising and profile
- Ensure efficient reporting, financial monitoring and payment systems
- Develop monitoring and evaluation procedures that encourage self evaluation of grantees
Delivering on our promise
The Irish Youth Foundation is a registered Irish charity (CHY5957). Being a philanthropic funding body, we are, every day, entrusted to safe-keep, monitor and ensure that the vital funds donated by visionary and caring people and organisations – are well spent, well monitored and impacts evaluated. We have adopted the Governance Code or Community, Voluntary and Charitable Organisations. Our charity prepares a Trustees annual report and financial statements in full compliance with the Charity SORP (Statement of Recommended Practice under FRS102) and makes them easily available to the public on our website. Our board have formally adopted the Charities Regulator’s Guidelines for Charitable Organisations on Fundraising from the Public.
Our Supporters
