Guidance

YIF Phase 1 - Specification of Requirements

Updated 7 December 2021

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Applies to England

Grant Scheme Ref: Youth Investment Fund, Phase 1 2021/22

1. Summary of Grant Funding

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) intends to provide a grant to a voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE) or youth sector organisation to distribute £10 million capital funding for youth provision in left-behind areas of England. The final selection will be made by a panel appointed by DCMS, using the evaluation criteria set out in Section 11 of this ITA.

For the purposes of this grant award process, the minimum award will be £10 million inclusive of irreclaimable VAT. The grant recipient will be eligible for an additional resource grant to cover the costs associated with delivery of YIF Phase 1. Applicants should outline the amount requested to deliver this funding within the application form and provide a breakdown of these costs. Please justify any anticipated costs that fall outside the typical administration benchmark of 2-6% of the total capital funding awarded.

Period of Funding agreement

The Applicant(s) will be expected to start work in January 2022, with exact dates to be determined in due course.

The Grant Funding Agreement will be from January 2022 (date TBC), with project delivery completed and funding claimed by 31 March 2022. The formal agreement is likely to be 30 June 2022 to account for participation in post event assurance and evaluation processes. Grant funding from DCMS for the grant period will be paid in arrears during the 21/22 financial year.

Grants cannot be paid out for any work undertaken by any applicant or the notified preferred bidder prior to countersignature of the Grant Agreement.

The Applicant will need to submit an interim progress report, with a final report reflecting on the impact of the activities initiated by the grant funding no later than 31 July 2022. If an Applicant fails to meet these milestones and/or provides unsatisfactory report[s], DCMS reserves the right to require the Applicant to repay all or part of the grant funding.

2. Introduction

The Youth Investment Fund (YIF)’s objective is to create, expand and improve local youth facilities and their services, in order to drive positive outcomes for young people, including improved health and wellbeing, and skills for work/employability and life.

The YIF will provide a step change in the provision of safe spaces for all young people. It will provide youth organisations with truly innovative spaces, and allow them to deliver more and better activities to underpin these facilities, reaching more young people. It will achieve savings on facility running costs, benefiting facility operators (and the taxpayer), and enable more resources to be focused on the activities that directly enrich the lives of young people. YIF will help to level the playing field of youth services and facilities, so that young people across the country have equal access to high-quality spaces and activities within their reach.

2.1 YIF Phase 1 21/22

In 21/22, £10 million of capital investment will be released for early disbursement into projects that allow organisations to expand or enhance their offer to young people, such that they improve young people’s wellbeing, employability and skills for work and life. This funding can also be invested into projects that improve the operational effectiveness and efficiency of organisations working with young people, so that they can focus more resource on their core purpose. YIF Phase 1 will issue funding to youth organisations through an intermediary grant maker in the VCSE or youth sector for small-scale capital projects, including capital equipment, small redevelopments and other capital projects that can be delivered within the 21/22 financial year, bringing fast-paced benefits to youth organisations and the young people they work with.

3. Timetable

Due to the need for capital grants to be delivered by the end of the 2021/22 financial year, delivery at pace is critical, and the provisional timetable for delivery of onward grants below reflects this. All capital funding must be distributed by the intermediary grant maker to youth sector organisations by 31st March 2022. Revenue funding to deliver the YIF Phase 1 should also be claimed by 31st March 2022.

Event	Timing
Fund setup including launch of application portal	end January 2022
Receiving, sifting and assessing grant applications	end February 2022
Provide a final list of all proposed grantees to DCMS for information	end February 2022
Awarding of grant funds to recipients	end March 2022
Project monitoring	February - end March 2022
Participation in post-event assurance and fund evaluation and reporting	March - June 2022
Completion of grant management and handover of audit information and assets	By end June 2022

Proposed Application timetable and administrative arrangements

Issue ITA	23 November 2021
Deadline for clarification questions from Applicants (anonymised questions and answers will be published within the gov.uk application page shortly after this date)	30 November 2021
Deadline for application submissions	12pm, 13 December 2021
Evaluation of applications	14 - 21 December 2021
Funding award notification	TBC - January 2022
Funding award	TBC - January 2022
Funding start date	TBC - January 2022
Interim report (if Required)	To be confirmed with applicant
End of project delivery	31 March 2022
Deadline for participation in evaluation and post event assurance	30 June 2022
Final report submission	31 July 2022

The proposed timetable is only a guideline. DCMS reserves the right to make any changes it deems necessary to the proposed timetable.

Please note, release of this funding and any subsequent grant agreement is dependent on DCMS securing sufficient approvals and is not guaranteed. DCMS will confirm the availability of funding to the successful applicant as soon as possible. Costs incurred in completing this application will not be eligible for funding.

4. Funding Purpose

The Youth Investment Fund Phase 1 (YIF Phase 1) spending objective is to improve the effectiveness of youth services in order to drive positive outcomes for young people such as improved health and wellbeing, equipping them with skills for work and life, and empowering them to be active members of their communities and society. The issue that the YIF Phase 1 funding seeks to address is an increasingly limited supply of capital funding to enable youth providers to expand the reach, number and range of services they currently offer. Alternatively this capital could be used to reduce overhead and running costs to better enable service providers to allocate more resource to improve and/or expand their offer to young people.

YIF Phase 1 will work with left-behind areas in England, assessing and distributing grants for capital proposals to meet the objective of improving the effectiveness of youth services. Proposals must meet the fund’s criteria for small-scale capital projects, including capital equipment, small redevelopments and other capital projects that can be delivered within the financial year, bringing fast-paced benefits to youth organisations and the young people they work with.

DCMS is seeking to appoint a VCSE or youth sector organisation with experience in grant delivery, capital expertise and knowledge of the youth sector, to distribute £10m capital funding in the form of an onward grant through a limited competition to left-behind areas. The intermediary grant maker will:

• Work with stakeholders in left-behind places including VCSE and youth organisations, and Local Authorities;
• Develop funding criteria to meet YIF’s overall objectives, application documents and guidance for applicants;
• Set up and manage an application portal;
• Publicise the Fund;
• Set up and manage and assessment panel, to include a representative from DCMS;
• Receive and assess applications to the Fund and make awards;
• Conduct project monitoring and participate in evaluation and post event assurance commissioned by DCMS;
• Regularly report progress to DCMS.

We anticipate that funding will be awarded to the recipient under section 70 of the Charities Act 2006.

5. Scope of Grant Funding Requirements

The YIF Phase 1 grant recipient will be responsible for assessing and distributing capital grants of up to £10m to youth sector organisations.

We estimate that the majority of capital grants will be between £5k and £50k, with between 200 and 2000 grants awarded. This is subject to the volume and quality of applications. Larger bids, where feasible, may still be appropriate for funding.

Applicants to the £10m capital fund are expected to be youth organisations or Local Authorities with existing facilities for youth provision.

Onward capital grants distributed by the intermediary grant maker must be viable for delivery within the 21/22 financial year, and may include:

• Installation of Green Energy e.g. solar panels, heat pumps (reducing operational costs);
• Equipment to improve health and wellbeing, such as outdoor gym equipment;
• IT improvements including websites, portals, platforms and new IT equipment;
• Improvements that will allow greater access to service users with disabilities;
• Equipment that will expand and enrich youth activities offered by existing providers, e.g. outdoor sports and activities, kitchen equipment, landscaping;
• Grants for minor facility improvements to improve safeguarding and security for young people e.g. CCTV installations, Improved building security;
• Purchase of vehicles or mobile units, which could be used for detached youth work or as mobile youth centres;
• Changes to existing spaces, e.g. provision of music rooms, arts & crafts, I.T rooms;
• Conversions of underused space into youth facilities.

Further phases of funding through the Youth Investment will be released in 22/23. Further intermediary grant makers, partners and/or delivery bodies will be procured in due course.

Performance will be measured and reported frequently against the following KPIs:

Number	KPI	Key indicator
1	Assess and sift grant applications and make awards	Weekly reports provided to DCMS officials detailing the organisations awarded funding.
2	Grant offer letters are awarded quickly, recipients are set up on the payment system and grant agreements signed	100% of grants committed by the end of February 2022. Average number of days taken awarding grant from initial submission by applicants.
3	Use of due diligence programmes to check grantees	Grant recipients run through fraud risk programmes. Number of all applications submitted to the fund that are fraud checked in accordance with HM Gov policy (%). Number of fraud checks completed against high-value submissions greater than £100k (%). Average time to resolve concerns with submitted applications arising from fraud checks.
4	Monitoring information provided to DCMS on a timely basis	Weekly payment schedules shared with DCMS. Monthly information reports provided to DCMS analytics officials (information to be captured will be defined with the supplier at a later date).
5	Money recouped from misspent grants	At the end of the grant agreement, less than 5% of total grant misspent and all money recouped to DCMS.
6	Payments made in error, e.g. wrong amount paid or payment sent to wrong bank	No payments made in error.

6. Eligibility Criteria of applicants

VCSE sector or youth sector organisations are encouraged to apply for this role. Applicants may take the form of sole legal entities or may wish to combine to form consortia, joint ventures (JVs), unincorporated associations or partnerships. This may, for example, apply to entities who feel that alone they do not have the capacity or capability to address the size and scale of the Department’s requirement. Applicants are responsible for determining the most appropriate approach to delivering their proposal.

The following additional information applies to applicants who put forward a joint approach:

• A Lead Party that shall submit an application on behalf of all Parties to the JV/consortium must be identified; The Lead Party shall be responsible for all communication with the Department during the procurement process;
• As part of their application, the applicant must submit a structure diagram identifying the roles and relationships between the Parties including all relevant companies, their respective parent or ultimate holding companies. The structure should make clear who will be responsible for delivery of the grant and ensure that, as a minimum, the legal obligations and liabilities of the applicant are borne by an entity or entities which satisfy the financial and economic requirements set out in the ITA. Where the group is proposing to create a separate legal entity, such as a special purpose vehicle (SPV) or consortium, they should provide details of the actual or proposed percentage shareholding of the constituent members within the new entity and details of its legal and operational structure. An SPV is a legal entity that is formed to perform a specific contract;
• The applicant must submit written confirmation from each Party that they authorise the Lead Party organisation to act on their behalf in relation to this procurement exercise;
• If awarded a grant, unless otherwise stated in your application, each of the Parties shall be jointly and severally responsible for the due performance of any grant agreement with the Department.

Applicants must advise the Department if there is any change to their legal status and/or composition during or after the appointment process, and the Department reserves the right to disqualify applicants where significant or material changes occur.

Mandatory requirements:

• Sufficient technical, financial, human and logistical capacity within the 21/22 financial year;
• Experience of grant management, in particular technical assessment of bids for capital funding, and an appropriate IT system to support grant management services;
• Understanding of and ability to work with the VCSE sector, particularly youth activity/service orientated organisations;
• England-wide reach.

Desirable requirements:

• Ability to contribute match funding (in particular, capital funding where YIF Phase 1 funds initial time-limited phases of a larger project, or resource funding to complement capital projects);
• Understanding of and ability to work with local government.

7. Strategic / operational project plan

7.1 Setup phase, January 22

Milestone 1: launch of fund

(c15% of expected effort)

Activity	Description
Launch of the fund	DCMS and the grant recipient will jointly produce all communications materials for the opening of the fund - these will be released and promoted through gov.uk channels and others as appropriate. The application process should also be used as an opportunity for collecting data that could be used to provide a baseline for the evaluation, and to gather intelligence on latent demand for youth facilities, in particular where modular construction may be utilised. Metrics will be finalised and discussed with DCMS upon appointment. The grant recipient will be expected to work closely with the appointed partners to collect and share all the information they request.
Fraud Risk Assessment	During this stage, the grant recipient should also carry out an in-depth fraud risk assessment to Cabinet Office Grants Functional Standards and Counter Fraud Functional Standards.
Assessment panel setup	The grant recipient will set up a panel to assess applications to the capital fund. Whilst DCMS will be represented on this panel, the grant recipient will be responsible for management of the panel and awarding all grants, providing reports on outcomes to DCMS.

7.2 Application phase, February 22

Milestone 2: participation in assessment panels

Milestone 3: closure of fund applications

Milestone 4: list of final grant recipients, with larger awards over £100k highlighted to DCMS

(c50% of expected effort)

Activity	Description
Receiving, sifting and assessing grant applications weekly whilst fund is open	Applications will need to be assessed against eligibility and criteria developed with DCMS prior to launch. As these applications will require a robust financial assessment, experience of assessing similar grant applications is desired
Preparing a weekly shortlist of organisations awarded funding for review by the assessment panel and preparing lists of awards for DCMS information	The grant recipient will be expected to: perform the initial sift, discarding any applications that do not meet the eligibility criteria conduct robust financial viability checks of applications that do meet the criteria produce a list of organisations for review an assessment panel, who will perform secondary organisational and reputational checks During this stage, the supplier should also look to begin collecting some preliminary data. Exact requirements will be defined at a later stage.

7.3 Award phase, February - Mar 22

Milestone 5: 100% of grants awarded by end of March

Milestone 6: fraud risk checks carried out on all grant awards

(c15% of expected effort)

Activity

Description

Awarding of grants to recipients

The grant recipient will be expected to award recipients with grant award letters, setting out the conditions of their grant agreement and confirming the proposed payment schedule. The grant recipient will also be expected to carry out their own due diligence process and fraud risk assessment that meets Cabinet Office and DCMS’ minimum grant standards. This can be shared with the intermediary grant maker ahead of awarding the grants, but will likely include: • completing a due diligence checklist • applying best practice and guidance • reviewing the financial position, governance and reputational aspects of grant recipients ensuring all due diligence and fraud risk assessments are properly documented and shared with the DCMS policy team • for grants over £100k, sharing details with DCMS officials, who will use the Cabinet Office ‘Spotlight’ grants tool to assess and monitor fraud risk.

7.4 Management phase, February - end March 22

Milestone 7: weekly/monthly grant reporting to DCMS

Milestone 8: ensuring evaluation provider is engaged with recipients

(c10% of expect effort)

Activity

Description

Project monitoring

The grant recipient will monitor capital projects to ensure that payments are being appropriately spent for the intended purpose. Applicants should evidence in their proposals how they have previously dealt with monitoring of capital projects, including how much resource they are prepared to assign for the duration of the fund. We would expect at least monthly reporting data to reflect on fraud risk. The supplier should provide DCMS with a weekly payment schedule to monitor forecast spend. The information the supplier will be asked to collect will be confirmed at a later date (and will likely include steers from other government departments). DCMS officials will work together with the grant recipient to build the best way of capturing the multiple data requirements we are likely to be asked to provide. Applicants will need to ensure the evaluation provider is engaged with grant recipients to ensure their participation within monitoring and evaluation activities as required.

7.5 Review phase, April - June 22

Milestone 9: ensuring the evaluation provider is engaged with recipients, and providing data as required to the Evaluation Supplier and PEA Supplier.

(c5% of expected effort)

Activity

Description

Participation in post-event assurance (PEA) and evaluation

The applicant will be expected to participate in post-event assurance exercises to monitor for misspent or unspent grant (this will be contracted to a separate supplier, so participation requirements will be defined at a later stage). The applicant will be expected to work with the evaluation partner. We would expect the Evaluation Supplier to provide a detailed evaluation plan, including methodology, upon appointment, to be agreed by DCMS.

7.6 Closing phase, April - June 22

Milestone 10: monthly grant reporting to DCMS

(c5% of expected effort)

Activity	Description
Ongoing fund monitoring and handover of assets and data to DCMS at end of grant agreement	At the end of the grant period, the applicant will hand over all data and information collected and stored on all grant recipients to DCMS, following participation in post-event assurance and evaluation.

8. Project costs

The Applicant must present a financial breakdown of the revenue funding requests to deliver the project using the following headings: staffing; materials; administration; overheads; equipment and travel and subsistence. “In kind contributions” should not be submitted as part of the financial breakdown but instead may be referred to in a commentary or within the project plan.

The following table is a good example of how project costs / budgets can be presented in Q4.4 of the application form – this ensures consistency across applications.

Cost heading	Description	Costs	VAT	Total
New Staff costs
Full Cost Recovery
Training for staff
T&S
Office equipment and materials – Non-fixed assets
Professional costs
+Other
Total
Other income – match funding

The resource element of the grant to cover costs of delivering the fund may be spent on:

• staff costs where they directly relate to programme activity, i.e. salaries, employer’s national, insurance contributions and employer’s contributions to any occupational pension scheme or stakeholder pension scheme;
• overheads proportional to the work carried out including rent, non-domestic rates, heating, lighting, cleaning;
• postage, telephone, stationery and printing;
• travel and subsistence;
• running conferences, seminars and events;
• plant and equipment, tools, information technology equipment;
• auditor’s fees relating to the funded work only;
• communications materials in all media (Subject to Cabinet Office Controls);
• paying for specialist help (e.g. market research, communications expertise, related research) -(Subject to Cabinet Office Controls).
• giving evidence to Select Committees;
• attending meetings with Ministers or officials to discuss the progress of a taxpayer funded grant scheme;
• responding to public consultations, where the topic is relevant to the objectives of the grant scheme. This does not include spending government grant funds on lobbying other people to respond to the consultation;
• providing independent, evidence based policy recommendations to local government, departments or Ministers, where that is the objective of a taxpayer funded grant scheme, for example, ‘What Works Centres’; and
• providing independent evidence based advice to local or national government as part of the general policy debate, where that is in line with the objectives of the grant scheme.

We would expect the grant recipient to adopt a flexible approach to the types of project supported when distributing £10 million capital funding. Any capital costs viable within the challenging timeframe and meeting the outcome of expanding the reach, range and efficiency of youth provision could be in scope.

The resource and capital elements of the grant must not be spent on (unless permitting the activities described below is a specific requirement of the grant agreement):

• paid-for lobbying, i.e. using grant funds to fund lobbying (via an external firm or in-house staff) in order to undertake activities intended to influence or attempt to influence Parliament, Government or political activity; or attempting to influence legislative or regulatory action;
• using grant funds to directly enable one part of government to challenge another on topics unrelated to the agreed purpose of the grant;
• using grant funding to petition for additional funding;
• expenses such as for entertaining, specifically aimed at exerting undue influence to change government policy;
• input VAT reclaimable by the grant recipient from HMRC; and
• payments for activities of a political or exclusively religious nature.

Other examples of expenditure, which might be prohibited, include the following:

• contributions in kind;
• interest payments or service charge payments for finance leases;
• gifts;
• statutory fines, criminal fines or penalties;
• payments for works or activities which the grant recipient, or any member of their Partnership has a statutory duty to undertake, or that are fully funded by other sources;
• bad debts to related parties; and
• payments for unfair dismissal or other compensation
• any amounts that do not represent an additional cost exclusively incurred as a result of the work described in the grant application, unless otherwise agreed in writing with DCMS; overheads allocated or apportioned at rates materially in excess of those used for any similar work carried out by the Applicant;
• activity that results in commercial gain or profit;
• the purchase of land or the purchase and construction of buildings;
• costs incurred prior to the date of the Offer Letter including pre-existing debts i.e. provisions, contingent liabilities or contingencies;
• running a small grant scheme;
• loans;
• cash contributions for Landfill Tax refunds;
• dividends declared;
• costs resulting from the deferral of payments to creditors;
• other finance charges;
• depreciation and amortisation;
• costs involved in winding up a company;
• redundancy payments, unless as part of a fixed term contract;
• payments into private pension schemes;
• payments for unfunded pensions; compensation for loss of office, bad debts arising from loans to proprietors, partners, employees, directors, shareholders, guarantors, or a person connected with any of these;
• travel and subsistence that would give rise to a taxable benefit were the cost to be incurred by, but not borne by, an individual;
• other tax (except PAYE);

Value added tax. The grant offer will be made on the basis that the costs presented to the Department take account of all VAT liabilities. If it is later found that the project costs increase because an error has been made about whether VAT can be recovered, DCMS will not increase your grant to cover this. If the Applicant is, after all, able to recover VAT, which it had included in the costs put forward to DCMS, the Applicant will be liable to repay all or some of the amount it recovers, to DCMS.

DCMS may seek to recover some or all of the grant, if the Applicant is performing unsatisfactorily or if the project ceases activity. DCMS may not require all or part of the grant to the repaid where the reasons for unsatisfactory performance or early cessation of work is beyond the control of the Applicant and reasonably unforeseen by the Applicant.

9. Monitoring and Evaluation

An independent evaluation of the YIF phase 1 will be undertaken and an external research organisation will be commissioned to undertake this. The evaluation will be a process evaluation that looks at how the fund has been set up, delivery of the fund and participation in the funding (e.g. who funding was given to etc). There will also be elements of reporting on the monitoring of the fund that will be included in the evaluation.

The applicants will need to work closely with the research organisation to help deliver the evaluation. It is expected that a research organisation will be appointed in early 2022 to conduct the evaluation. While a research organisation is being appointed it will be expected that the applicants will work closely with DCMS in making sure that the relevant data that is needed for the evaluation is collected in the application and also that grantees know what to expect in terms of their involvement in the evaluation process.

Once the research organisation is in place applicants will need to work with the chosen research organisation to help inform the evaluation plan in conjunction with DCMS. This plan will focus on how robust data will be collected to demonstrate how the fund has been delivered and its effectiveness etc. It will also set out the timeline for the evaluation and key milestones.

There will be a range of data that any applicants will need to provide to the appointed research organisation. This will include the application data for all applicants to the fund, data on successful applications (e.g. which organisations received funds, how much funding etc) and any other data around the fund deemed to be relevant. Any data will need to be provided to the evaluators in an easily accessible format e.g. Excel spreadsheets.

It will also be expected that the applicants will provide contact details of organisations who receive funding so they can take part in follow up research for the evaluation. This will need to be made clear to recipients of the funding and the data protection issues around this made clear to recipients. The applicants may also be required to formally take part in research activity e.g. be interviewed by the research organisation to inform the findings from the evaluation.

10. Performance Reporting & Responsibilities

The grant recipient will produce regular progress reports for DCMS. The frequency of reporting will be agreed with the grant recipient upon appointment and will be specified within the full grant agreement.

By 31 July 2022 the grant recipient will provide an end of project evaluation report to DCMS confirming that the grant outputs have been delivered to a satisfactory standard and the expected benefits that have accrued or will accrue. Evaluation reports must focus on whether the project was effective, achieved its objectives and milestones, and whether the outcomes had an impact. It should cover activities for the grant period. The type of evaluation will vary depending on the objectives set within individual projects, the outputs created and the outcomes envisaged. The final report must highlight any best practice or lessons learned.

No later than 3 months from the end of the Grant Period, the grant recipient will provide DCMS with a Statement of Grant Usage that has been audited by an independent accountant and a final financial statement detailing the use of the Grant Funding.

11. Evaluation Criteria

All applications will be assessed against the following criteria.

Assessment criteria	Weighting %	Relevant Question in Application Form
Approach and methodology: Applications must demonstrate an appropriate methodology and delivery plan, and describe how the programme’s outcomes will be monitored.	20	Q2.3
Organisation’s capability and experience: Applications must demonstrate that the organisation has sufficient technical, financial, human and logistical capacity to deliver within the 21/22 financial year, experience in grant funding and England-wide reach.	30	Q3.7 Q3.8 Q3.9 Q3.10
Ability to provide match funding: Applications should demonstrate the organisation’s ability to bring in external funding sources and/or partners.	10	Q4.2
Cost effectiveness: Applications should present a budget which includes all project costs and presents good value for money and efficiency in project delivery.	10	Q4.8
Grant requested: Applications should specify the revenue grant requested to deliver. The applicant submitting the lowest price will serve as a benchmark, with applicants receiving marks on a pro-rata basis from the lowest to the highest price.	30	Q4.4
Total	100

Each question response will be evaluated and marked on a scale of 0-4 where:

• 0 – Serious concerns: e.g. does not meet requirements, and/or raises serious concerns

• 1 – Minor concerns: e.g. meets some requirements but with gaps and/or some minor concerns

• 2 – Adequate confidence: e.g. meets most/all requirements, but lacks sufficient detail or evidence in some areas

• 3 – Good confidence: e.g. meets all requirements and provides a detailed response but lacks evidence in minor areas

• 4 – Excellent confidence:** e.g. meets all requirements, provides a detailed response and evidence which demonstrates a particularly strong understanding of the requirements

12. Application Process

Application documents available via gov.uk include:

• YIF Phase 1 Specification of Requirements (this document)
• YIF Phase 1: Grant Application Form
• DCMS Standard terms and conditions of Grants

Please note that the successful grant recipient will be expected to agree to DCMS Standard terms and conditions of Grants. Amendments cannot be made to these terms and conditions. We are asking organisations who are interested in this role and have the required capacity and skill set to submit a completed application by email to [email protected] by 12pm, 13 December 2021.

Where the application is being submitted on behalf of more than one organisation working in a consortium or partnership, please provide relevant information for all of the organisations involved.

DCMS will hold a virtual engagement session on 30 November 2021 to explain this opportunity in further detail and answer any queries. Please contact the Youth Investment Fund team on [email protected] to request further information or to sign up for this event. Clarification questions may be sent to [email protected] by 30 November 2021; anonymised questions and responses will be published on the gov.uk page shortly after this date.