The Keyfund Vision
“We want to see a world where young people are listened to and empowered to reach their full potential in life, in a world where their communities look on them with pride and feel excitement for the future”.

The Keyfund Mission
“Together let’s provide young people with the opportunity to practically develop the skills, confidence and self awareness needed to better reach their potential and play a positive role in their community”.

Stakeholders

The Keyfund Model

Essential Keyfund Elements

The core principles of Keyfund are accessibility, youth-leadership and a positive nurturing relationship with Facilitators. Young people start where they are at and measure their own distance travelled at each stage. They have to generate their own ideas and decide for themselves what their projects will be.

Groups must be able to access the support they need and feel confident in their Facilitator. Relationships need to be built in order for groups to work together so that peers inspire, support and motivate each other.

Once the Keyfund process is underway progression through stages will be promoted and prolonged participation encouraged.

Throughout the entire Keyfund process from inception to completion the 12 Keyfund skills will be of key importance. Young people not only develop these skills, but gain a real understanding of how they have done so and how they can transfer them to other parts of their lives in order to help them develop and succeed.

Live panels with third party validation are used to support the process, giving young people the opportunity and challenge to demonstrate their learning face-to-face in an environment they choose. Panellists will determine if young people have developed the 12 Keyfund skills and if their project has been well planned and are able to decide there and then if the group have been successful.

The core motivation is the provision of money so young people can pay for their projects and gain new experiences. This must always be available to them.