The Executive Office (Via Education Authority): Planned Interventions Programme

Overview

Funding Aim

Young people in interface areas and areas where there is the potential of heightened social unrest during the period of the 1st June 2023 to the 7th of November 2023, particularly on weekends, evenings and during the traditional times of community events. It seeks to provide positive alternatives for young people at risk of becoming involved in anti-social behaviour, sectarianism and recruitment from paramilitary gangs, and to address heightened inter and intra community tension around interfaces.

Applicant groups must be from the voluntary and community sector and demonstrate a good track record in delivering projects, completing financial monitoring, and submitting returns by set deadlines. If you are currently not registered with EA Youth Service, please see page 12 of Terms & Conditions document.

Essential Criteria

• The programme must specifically target young people aged 9 – 25 years old and must divert young people away from becoming involved in sectarian activities, civil disorder or other types of anti-social behaviour.
• The programme must take place in an interface area or in an area where there is the potential for severely heightened unrest. This includes areas experiencing intra and inter community conflict. You may also apply if you can demonstrate with evidence, the need for an intervention because the young people you work with travel to other communities/interfaces to be involved in violence
• Each individual application must be for one group of young people, to a maximum of 25 young people in total.

• Outcome 1 – Reduction in number of crime and antisocial behaviour incidents in the areas where the young people live

• Outcome 2 – Reduction in the number of young people engaging in risk taking behaviours

• Outcome 3 – Increase in the % of young people who think favourably about young people in the other community

Guidance notes can be found here Details of relevant contact for each District Council are listed on page 16.

A number of initiatives are included to support groups in meeting the Programme Outcomes and these include:

• Extension to the delivery period, from 1st June 2023 until 7th November 2023, to support interventions covering the Halloween period of 2023
• Opportunity to include an additional 12 hours of paid staff time to undertake detached youth work as part of the recruitment process and ensure the young people who will benefit most from the programme are targeted
• Opportunity to use funding to develop and implement a social action project as a key programme delivery mechanism, to improve relationships between young people and their community, and to promote volunteering as a legacy of the programme.
• Each application must be for one individual group, to a maximum of 25 young people. Groups can submit multiple applications for different cohorts of young people. Groups can only submit a maximum of 3 applications in total, and should prioritize their applications, based on assessed need. An applicant may also be named in further applications, as a partner (Delivery or Support).