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Summer is leaning on the ropes of a boxing ring, smiling confidently. She is wearing a black sweatshirt and black Lonsdale boxing gloves. The gym setting in the background is bright, with fluorescent lights overhead.

Grant Funding

We’re committed to ensuring the DofE is open to all young people aged 14-24 across the UK and that our participants reflect the most diverse generation of young people ever. Our grant-making helps ensure the DofE is accessible and inclusive, delivering against our organisational strategy: Youth Without Limits.

Our first significant grant-giving fund was made possible through the support of the #iwill movement. During the COVID-19 pandemic and into the Cost-of-Living Crisis, thanks to our generous donors we were able to continue to provide crucial support to Licensed Organisations, ensuring young people across the UK could benefit from improved wellbeing, enhanced skills, greater community ties and increased physical activity, at a challenging time when programmes like ours had never been more needed.

The ongoing demand for grant-funding and impact were clear. As a result, we have developed our grant-making with increased funding and a dedicated expert team.

Through our grant-making and with the support of our incredible donors, we are increasing opportunity and access; removing barriers to participation, enabling young people from marginalised backgrounds to take part and providing organisations with funding to start offering the DofE to the young people they work with.

You can find out more about our impact and open funds below, learn more about supporting DofE here.

Our impact

Listen to DofE Leader, Emily discuss how the Access funding has been fundamental to delivering DofE programmes:

Available funding

Opportunity

This grant-making strand ensures existing LOs can apply for funding to remove barriers to participation, enabling young people from marginalised backgrounds to take part.