Violence Against Women and Girls Prevention Programme

The Youth Endowment Fund are seeking to fund interventions and generate robust evidence on how secondary schools can best be supported to deliver healthy relationships content, improve young people’s knowledge and attitudes towards healthy relationships and harmful behaviours, and ultimately reduce violence against women and girls. This aligns with both Pillar 1: Prevention and early intervention in cross-government strategy on VAWG, and the Department of Education’s roll out of revised statutory Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) curriculum in September 2026.

They are inviting applications across two strands:

Strand 1: Building school capacity internally on healthy relationships delivery

Projects that strengthen the confidence, skills and capacity of secondary school staff to deliver universal, high-quality content around healthy and respectful relationships as part of the new Relationship, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) curriculum. The Fund expect these interventions to:  

• Primarily focus on providing training and support for teachers on dealing with sensitive topics in some or all of the areas of Respectful Relationships, Online Safety and Awareness, Being Safe and Intimate and Romantic Relationships in the RSHE curriculum.

• The Fund will consider interventions that cover the above but also include wider school approaches designed to strengthen school culture, leadership and systems around healthy relationships (such as the integration of healthy relationship topics in other subjects, wider teacher training or awareness campaigns across the school).

Strand 2: Delivery of healthy relationships content of RSHE by external providers

Projects by experienced, external specialist providers to deliver universal healthy relationships content in the new RSHE curriculum directly to young people in secondary schools (some or all of the topics of Respectful Relationships, Online Safety and Awareness, Being Safe and Intimate and Romantic Relationships).  

Your organisation: your organisation must be a registered charity, company, statutory body or CIC.