Eligibility and Criteria for Do it For Real
You could be eligible to apply for a Test It or Do It Award if:
- You are a young person (aged 16-30) living in Northern Ireland
- You are passionate about creating social change
- You have an idea for a solution to a social issue
- You can deliver social benefit in the UK
- Your idea/venture has the potential to become sustainable
- This will be a learning opportunity for you
You are not eligible for a Test It or Do It Award if your idea/venture:
- Is part of your paid employment
- Involves political or religious campaigning
- Involves employing people other than yourself to carry out most of the work
- Is mainly for people to achieve academic qualifications (however we do permit short term training if it is critical to the success of the venture)
- Involves activities outside of the law or against public policy
- Involves activities that encourage ethnic, religious or commercial disharmony.
You could be eligible to apply for a Build It Award if:
- A young person (aged 16-30) living in Northern Ireland
- You have identified a social issue and developed a business model that works to solve it.
- You have already achieved a compelling performance in your venture.
- You are experienced, ambitious and capable of growing your venture.
- You have a realistic growth plan and a track record of creating social impact.
- You are committed to working full time on your social venture.
To be eligible for a Build It Award, your venture must also:
- Your venture is ideally less than 5 years old.
- Your venture is dynamic and has been running for at least one year.
- Your venture is ready to grow to local, regional or national scale and has a logical and appropriate plan to deliver this.
- You have a compelling performance to date and/or a logical and appropriate plan for rapid growth to reach local, regional or national scale.
- Your venture targets beneficiaries predominately based in Northern Ireland.
