Reconnect Economic Wellbeing Grant

This funding programme is closed to new applications.

View open funding programmes for children and young people

This programme made £150,000 available to organisations who delivered additional support and activities to children and young people, to help them reconnect with things they have missed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This was part of Reconnect: Our Kent Children and Young People Programme.

Organisations could apply for grants of up to £20,000 per activity that help reconnect children and young people to their education and job opportunities. Example activities included:

  • business mentoring
  • sector promotional activities and events
  • workplace visits
  • vocational and employability skills events
  • entrepreneurship competitions, support or workshops
  • masterclasses – focusing on vocational activities and pathways
  • sector challenges.

If you applied for a Reconnect Economic Wellbeing Grant and need to get in touch, email reconnect.kentcyp@kent.gov.uk.