Mediabox - Media Trust Grant Programme for Youth

Media Trust’s Mediabox Fund invites applications from youth in the United Kingdom (UK) aged 13-19 for grants to support creative media projects. The fund offers a variety of grants ranging from UK£1,000 - £40,000 for organisations to create and distribute youth-led media projects, as well as a smaller grant of UK£500 for individuals. (Please see the Mediabox website for a full listing of grants.)

For example: Mix Mediabox - Round 1 opens January 25 2010, Round 1 Stage 1 Deadline: March 9 2010 - This grant is designed to reach UK organisations that bring together young people from diverse economic backgrounds, faiths, or geographic areas to work on a media project. Open to established youth- and/or media-focused organisations, this grant intends to enable young people to work with older members of their community in order to create media projects that encourage communities to gain a better understanding of each other and promote community cohesion. Mix Mediabox consists of a two-stage application process. The initial stage allows applicants to register an expression of interest in the scheme and outline their idea. Applicants only move forward to the second stage of the process once they have received confirmation that their proposal has a reasonable chance of receiving funding.

Mini Mediabox - Deadline: Rolling deadline - This grant is available for established UK youth- and/or media-focused organisations that bring young people from diverse ethnic, economic backgrounds, faiths, or areas together to work on a media project, providing young people with the opportunity to explore issues around identity, diversity, and sense of belonging in their community - and, in doing so, tell their own stories and experiences in a creative way.

Mid Mediabox - Reopens on February 26 2010, Deadline: April 8 2010 - This grant is open to established youth organisations that may or may not have delivered media projects in the past. This grant can be used to develop a new creative idea and/or to promote a completed youth-led media project to a wider audience.

Big Mediabox - Reopens on November 25 2009, Deadline: January 20 2010 - This is the largest of the grants, designed for organisations with a strong track record of developing media projects with young people. This grant can assist organisations to deliver new programmes that allow a larger group of young people to work collaboratively.