Live UnLtd

Live UnLtd

What Is Live UnLtd?

Live UnLtd is a youth initiative coordinated by UnLtd. Live UnLtd provides young people aged 11-21 with exciting opportunities to develop an idea which could change their community for the better.

These young social entrepreneurs are awarded funding of up to £5,000 to start up their own social venture; from sports teams and recreational groups to hosting events, which is then coupled with non-financial support from a designated Live UnLtd Development Manager in their region.

The programme also gives young people the opportunity to erase the negative stereotypes associated with ‘youth culture’ in the media today and show that with the right financial and non-financial support, young people can become catalysts for positive social change within their community.

For more information about Live UnLtd
visit the Live UnLtd website at:
http://www.LiveUnLtd.com

Big Challenge

Big Challenge that UnLtd are running in partnership with Changemakers gives young people the power and the trust to find innovative solutions to the major challenges that society face today. It is a three year programme, funded by Vodafone and v, with a different ‘Challenge’ as the focus each year which could include problems such as gang crime or climate change.

The decisions about which challenges are addressed, which young people are given a variety of resources to tackle these challenges and how the programme will work are the responsibility of the 25 members of the Youth Leadership Team. The Youth Leadership Team will come with a variety of skills and experiences from their own projects and will then be equipped with everything that they need to support more young activists in the community. The Team are recruited annually and have a pot £60 000 to spend in the way they think will have most impact and is most entrepreneurial in tackling society’s most pressing problems.

The young people who are chosen by the Youth Leadership Team to implement their ideas will receive intensive support and coaching from the Youth Challenge Manager, Abby Kegg, the Youth Leadership Team and other social entrepreneurs in our networks. The project will also engage with potentially thousands more young people who will actively participate through online voting, downloading of project development tools for their own ideas, volunteering with campaigns and becoming inspired to do something within their own communities.

This year's challenge is called 'Many Cultures, Many Individuals, How can you create unity in your community?
View the winning projects on the website now.

Please visit the Big Challenge website for more details. Big Challenge website

The Children and Young People Strategic Grant (CYPF)

The CYPF Strategic grant aims to equip young people, aged 11-25 and on the margins of society, with the skills and resources needed to make the transition to becoming young social entrepreneurs, active citizens and community leaders. We do this by conducting comprehensive youth-led research into the barriers facing young social entrepreneurs and sharing our findings with organisations across the UK.

Included in this is UnLtd’s work with the development of the Foundation for Young Social Entrepreneurs (FYSE). FYSE will support and encourage young people to establish and sustain their own social enterprises and enable them to influence and challenge national and local policy as well as decision makers.

The first interim report into the barriers facing young social entrepreneurs is now complete and we will be sharing our findings with a range of organisations, government bodies and decision makers throughout 2009. If you would like more information out this report please contact us. It is also available here: (UnLtdWorld place for report).