T:BUC Uniting Communities: Uniting Opportunities

Uniting Opportunities is the small grants element of the Uniting Communities Programme. It aims to promote good relations and reconciliation through sport and creativity by addressing barriers to community participation that some young people face. It is targeted at the most vulnerable groups of young people in our society (aged 11-24), who would not normally avail of opportunities to participate.

The programme target groups are:

Young & Homeless
Young Migrants, Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Young People in Care
Young People with a Disability
Young People with Poor Mental Health
Young Offenders
Young People at risk of rural isolation

The programme objectives are:

Young people who experience barriers to participation in their communities will have increased confidence, self-esteem and social skills to get involved
Young people have the ability to build good relations in their communities by having a greater understanding of other religious, political, ethnic and marginalised communities
Young people are more actively involved in sport and creativity, and are presented with opportunities to sustain their involvement
Young people will have developed the appropriate attributes to enable further community engagement with the Uniting Communities through sport and creativity programme

Uniting Opportunities has been designed to support our core Uniting Communities programme. As such, it only seeks projects from where our core programme is being delivered, or is scheduled to be delivered. Our current delivery areas are: