Youth Endowment Fund: Violence Against Women and Girls Prevention Programme

Funding for organisations working with secondary schools on healthy and respectful relationships education.

We know that supporting children and young people to develop the skills and understanding they need to build healthy and respectful relationships is an important early step to preventing the emergence of harmful behaviours in relationships - including physical, emotional and sexual abuse in relationships, coercive or controlling behaviour, harassment and exploitation, including online and technology-facilitated abuse. 

The full eligibility requirements are summarised below and explained in more detail in the Application Guidance. Please ensure your intervention meets all these requirements before proceeding with an application.   

• Location: your intervention must be delivered in England.  
• Your organisation: your organisation must be a registered charity, company, statutory body or CIC.   
• Activities: interventions must fit within one of the strands listed within this guidance. 
• Target schools and children: interventions must support outcomes for children and young people aged 11-16, in state secondary schools. 
• Outcomes: we’re primarily interested in interventions that are focussed on reducing violence against women and girls and harmful behaviours in teenage relationships over the long term. Within the timeframes of the delivery and evaluation, interventions should be aiming to change children’s knowledge and attitudes around healthy relationships, gender norms and harmful behaviours in teenage relationships. 
• Scale: you must be able to reach enough schools to support a robust and meaningful evaluation. We estimate that this will involve: 
• Strand 1: Delivery of the intervention to one or more year groups in 30 secondary schools (with another 30 schools being a control group where existing practice is continued) 
• Strand 2: Deliver of the intervention to one or more year groups across 20-30 schools (depending on the evaluation design, a further 30 schools may also be needed for the control group where existing practice is continued)