Grants database

Lumos Transforms is a social enterprise which supports individuals, communities, and organisations through positive change. This grant supports a project to sustainably resource organisations working globally to safeguard rights. In the project’s first phase, Lumos will open applications to small-to-medium-sized English-speaking organisations (up to 100 staff) working in North America, United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, and the SWANA (South West Asian and North African) regions. Selected organisations will represent broad diversity in terms of geography, areas of rights focus (e.g., women; LGBTQIA+; indigenous; immigrants; workers; politically, culturally and religiously oppressed groups, etc.), and organisational strategies (policy and systems-change advocacy as well as direct community support).

Culture Commons supports creative organisations and the publicly subsidised cultural sector by bringing cutting-edge research and policy development activity together to co-design policy and influence decision making at local, regional and national levels. This grant funds scoping for phase two of an open policy development programme which will examine how the ​‘devolution revolution’ will impact on the creative, cultural and heritage sectors in different parts of the UK.

Contextual Safeguarding is an approach to understanding, and responding to, young people’s experiences of significant harm beyond their families. This grant supports a three-year participatory action research (PAR) project with young people and their families to develop a sector guide for commissioning and funding services and provision that is responsive to young people’s experiences of extra-familial risk, and tackle inequalities in the child welfare sector.

Thirty Percy are working to create a new philanthropy model that funds people rather than projects so investments have as long-lasting an impact as possible. This grant supports a collective working to explore various aspects of ​‘hidden wiring’ infrastructure – what is already existing, what we mean by ​‘hidden wiring’ and, longer term, with a view to adequately resourcing an ecosystem of actors doing the ​‘hidden wiring’ work.

People Support Co-op provide a broad range of advice and support services related to human relationships in the workplace, and support the co-operative movement in its role as a key player in economic and social change. This grant funds the production of guidance on the intersection between employment law and criminal law. This will support social movement organisations who organise direct action and mobilisations, and employers wishing to offer activism leave. The aim is to support organisations to understand the risks involved and legally safest approaches.

The Civic Power Fund supports community organising and helps communities build the infrastructure and leadership they need to thrive. This grant provides emergency funds for groups organising as, or with, refugees, migrants asylum seekers, racialised communities and other communities facing hate. 

Black Funding Network (BFN) is a community of individuals and institutions who come together to support Black founded and led non-profit organisations. This grant enables them to secure additional marketing expertise, with the aim to increase the number of donors and recruit more members which will reduce BFN’s reliance on other sources of funding. 

Arts & Culture Finance is now Figurative, who raise and manage funds, support philanthropy, run programmes and offer research and advisory services tailored to the cultural and creative sector. This grant contributes to funding for the operating costs of Figurative over its first four years, in conjunction with Arts Council England, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Nesta.

The A B Charitable Trust is an independent grant-making organisation which champions human dignity and supports the most marginalised and excluded groups in the UK. This grant contributes seed funding to their Harm to Healing initiative – a collective of organisations working to address racial injustice in the criminal legal system through collaborative action and funding.

People’s Economy (PE) work with communities in the UK facing economic injustice to reimagine, rebalance, and transform the economy. This grant will support PE to facilitate a mixed group of new economy organisations (NEOs) and grassroots changemakers (GCs) through an action inquiry that will develop shared knowledge and practice around how they can effectively and equitably collaborate on economic systems change work.

Centre for Public Impact Europe (CPIE) acts as a learning partner for governments, public servants, and the diverse network of changemakers leading the charge to reimagine government. This grant supports CPIE, in partnership with Climate-KIC, to co-create a ​“funders group” for foundations, philanthropists and Governments across the world who want to use a Human Learning Systems framing to change the power dynamics of funding.

VOYAGE (Voice of Youth and Genuine Empowerment) aims to empower marginalised Black young people aged 14–25 years and provide them with the self-awareness and motivation to transform themselves and their communities. This grant supports VOYAGE to strengthen its long-established Young Leaders programme and expand the pathways to previously inaccessible mentoring and employment opportunities with a growing number of corporate partners. It will also enable recruitment of a Head of Programmes to develop new accredited Young Leaders initiatives and increase capacity for the team.