Gloucestershire operate the fund centrally via the Youth Support Services and have six district assessment panels who assess Youth Opportunity Funding and one countywide panel who assesses all Youth Opportunity Fund applications from countywide groups and assesses all of the Youth Capital Funding. The countywide panel is made up of young people from countywide organisations and representatives from the district panels.

Most importantly, the Youth Opportunity / Capital Fund is money for young people, by young people!