The KFC Youth Foundation creates opportunities for young people that inspire and empower them to take control of their lives and make positive change for a positive future.
The organisations we work with provide spaces that allow young people to feel safe and secure, helping them to unlock talent, build life skills, provide mentoring or improve their chances to gain meaningful employment. We want to fund work that helps young people to create firm foundations, by addressing their needs through early intervention.
We have three core programmes:
Hatch - We support young people aged 18 -25 who are not in education, employment or training (NEET), to overcome barriers, build confidence and develop the skills they need to take their first step into work.
Community Grants - Providing grants of £6,000 over two years to small grass roots organisations around the UK.
Hubs - In 2025, we opened our very first Youth Hub, in Middlesbrough, which is a safe space where young people can grow, meet friends and be supported by incredible Youth Workers.
The KFC Youth Foundation is the corporate foundation that was setup in 2015 and is financially supported by KFC UK&I. The KFC Youth Foundation is a registered charity.
As you can imagine, we are often asked if we can provide KFC and KFC vouchers and unfortunately, we are not able to do this.
If you are interested in finding out more about food donation, we can certainly direct you to KFC’s food donation programme in partnership with FareShare here.