The Welsh Government are inviting applications for funding from third sector organisations which specialise in supporting, engaging or working with people with protected characteristics and/or children and young people who have experience of poverty. This exercise forms part of the requirement to report on progress against the child poverty strategy for Wales.
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Every three years the Welsh Government reports on progress against its Child Poverty Strategy for Wales. The next report is scheduled for December 2025. As part of the progress report we have committed to include lived experience evidence to help show how we are delivering against the aims and objectives of the strategy.
The progress report will also include:
- A monitoring framework to report on regular and robust population level data on a range of child poverty indicators to provide insight on impact and direction of travel on the outcomes for children and young people.
- A policy progress report to provide a detailed update on the impact of specific policies, actions and associated outputs, in delivering progress against the five objectives, five priorities and 19 commitments of the strategy.
Capturing Lived Experience
Evidence from people with lived experience of poverty provides important information about how policies and actions are making a difference for children, young people and families at a household and community level.
Welsh Government want to ask people with lived experience three key questions that will establish whether there have been any changes in the last three years that have impacted on people, what barriers people face and what could be done in the future to make a difference to people’s lives.
Engagement
We are seeking your help in gathering this information. We are offering short-term grant funding to support opportunities for discussions with children, young people, parents, families and communities across Wales, to ensure their insights, views and concerns are reflected in the progress report due for publication in December 2025.
Funding of up to £4995 per organisation is available to third sector, or community groups or organisations which specialise in supporting, engaging or working with people with protected characteristics and/or children and young people who have experience of poverty. Protected characteristics can include, but is not limited to, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexuality.
If you are interested in applying for this funding, please contact us at: TacklingPovertyAndSupportingFamilies@gov.wales for an application form, specifying whether you will target those with protected characteristics and / or children and young people specifically.
Please note: it is only by return of this email that the application form and associated guidance notes will be issued. Once the application window has closed, there will be no further opportunity to bid for this funding.
The deadline for completed applications is 11 July. Projects are expected to start immediately after confirmation of funding and all responses must be received at Welsh Government by 22 August.
