Child Poverty Strategy for Wales – Lived Experience Engagement Exercise Funding

As part of a consultation exercise Welsh Government are offering short-term grant funding to support opportunities for discussions with children, young people, parents, families and communities across Wales, to ensure their insights, views and concerns are reflected in the progress report due for publication in December 2025.

Funding of up to £4995 per organisation is available to third sector community groups and organisations who specialise in supporting, engaging or working with people with protected characteristics and/or children and young people who have experience of poverty. Protected characteristics can include, but is not limited to, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexuality.

If you are interested in applying for this funding, please contact us at: TacklingPovertyAndSupportingFamilies@gov.wales  for an application form, specifying whether you will target those with protected characteristics and / or children and young people specifically.

Please note: it is only by return of this email that the application form and associated guidance notes will be issued. Once the application window has closed, there will be no further opportunity to bid for this funding.

The deadline for completed applications is 11 July. Projects are expected to start immediately after confirmation of funding and all responses must be received at Welsh Government by 22 August.