HYAB Funding Scheme for Youth Adventure Training Activities (2025-27)

Background

The Government is committed to promoting the diversified development of young people and making different activities available to them to realise their potentials, with a view to fostering a healthy environment conducive to their growth. The Home and Youth Affairs Bureau (HYAB) published in 2022 the first edition of the Youth Development Blueprint (the Blueprint), outlining the principles, objectives and actions of the Government in pursuing youth development. To work towards the direction of the Blueprint, help young people develop positive thinking and improve their physical and mental well-being, team spirit as well as resilience, the HYAB and the Youth Development Commission jointly launched in late 2022 the first round of the HYAB Funding Scheme for Youth Adventure Training Activities (the Funding Scheme) (formerly known as Funding Scheme for Youth Adventure Training Activities) under the Youth Development Fund to subsidise eligible non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to provide adventure training activities for young people in support of their healthy personal development. The Chief Executive announced in his 2024 Policy Address Supplement that to enhance positive thinking, the Government will launch a new round of Funding Scheme in 2025 to continue to nurture positive thinking and values among young people, thereby enabling them to become a new generation with a sense of ownership and responsibility, and an aspiration and willingness to contribute to the development of our country and Hong Kong.

Mission and Objective

The Funding Scheme aims to subsidise eligible NGOs to provide large scale and high quality adventure training activities for young people in a structured manner. Participants are to, through taking part in adventure training and a series of experiential activities under the progressive guidance and involvement of instructors, encounter various difficulties and challenges, and feel a sense of accomplishment brought by solving problems and overcoming challenges while gaining an experience that transcends everyday life. This is to improve young people’s physical and mental well-being, foster their positive thinking and resilience, promote their sense of discipline and team spirit. The Funding Scheme emphasises the importance of cultivating positive values and thinking of young people in their development, to enable them to become a new generation with a sense of ownership and responsibility, and an aspiration and willingness to contribute to the development of our country and Hong Kong.

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