Youth Climate Changemakers Fund for Informal Groups

Deadline: 8 June 2025

The Generation Climate Europe is accepting proposals for its Youth Climate Changemakers Fund for Informal Groups.

Funding Fairer Futures (FFF) wants to transform the climate justice movement to be more inclusive, accessible and representative focusing on youth, local communities, people with disabilities and ecofeminist groups. They’ve built a coalition with Climate Action Network, WECF, Christian Blind Mission Ireland and ECOLISE to empower more organisations to build community power, organise and hold power holders to account through providing financial support and training.

Objectives

With the Youth Climate Changemakers Fund micro-grants they want to focus on strengthening grassroots climate activism. They’ve set some objectives for how they want to do that:
- They want to strengthen the youth climate movement. They want to use the Youth Climate Changemakers Fund to bring much needed financial, training and networking support to the youth climate movement.
- They’re looking for people who need their help. It’s difficult to secure funding when you’re not a registered organisation. They want to hear from people who want to have an impact but are struggling to secure funding from elsewhere.
- They’re looking to engage and reach new audiences. The climate movement has a diversity problem and they want to use the Youth Climate Changemakers Fund to redress that imbalance.
- They’re interested in supporting those not traditionally engaged in the climate movement.
- They want to create a legacy. They want to hear about how their investment in you will contribute to your future growth and impact on the climate movement in the future.
- They want you to join thier community. Being part of Funding Fairer Futures is more than just receiving financial support and training– their strength comes from working together.

Benefits

They will offer access to project management and organizational development training; campaign and advocacy training;
communication and mobilisation training; fundraising support;
networking opportunities; and visibility and recognition as being part of one of Europe’s largest climate action communities.

Funding Information

They can offer you up to €1,000 and lots of training and support from the Funding Fairer Futures community
Duration: Between 6 months and up to 12 months

Eligible Activities

Your project must align with the objectives of the call and consist of activities such as;
- Awareness raising
- Public engagement activities
- Mobilisation campaigns
- Advocacy activities
- Capacity building and training activities

Eligibility Criteria

To benefit from this grant you must meet the below criteria:
- You must be a natural person (you can’t apply as an organisation, only as a person)
- You must be representing a group of at least three people who will deliver the project with you
- You must be a citizen of one of the EU member states.
- Your project must last at least 6 months
- Your organisation must be youth led (meaning day to day management of your organisation must be carried out by those under 30 or the governing body is made up of a majority of people under the age of 30).
- You can’t already have received, nor expect to receive, support from another fund financed by the EU’s DEAR programme
- You can’t be a part of delivering any other project funded by the EU’s DEAR programme
- You must be able to demonstrate to us you can manage money well and be able to provide us with the information they need

Ineligibility Criteria

While this isn’t an exhaustive list of everything they don’t fund, here is a short list of some of the costs that aren’t eligible as part of this grant:
- They do not cover the cost of new equipment
- They do not fund activities that generate a profit
- You cannot use any part of this grant to co-finance another EU funded project
- They do not fund activities or projects taking place outside of the European Union
- This is a project grant and not an operational grant
- They do not fund political campaigns or political parties
- They do not fund projects that exclusively serve religious purposes
- They do not fund fundraising activities
- They don’t fund projects that benefit one person such as research fees, conference attendance, tuition fees. (They can fund your participation at an event but only if it’s part of a larger project).