Grants database

Coram’s Fields and Harmsworth Memorial Playground is a children’s charity that serves as a safe place for all children to come and play. This grant will support Coram’s Fields in providing an under fives drop-in service for one year in an area where families are faced with poverty and overcrowded accommodation.

Camden Giving is an independent charity working with businesses in the area to overcome local inequality. They run participatory grant-making, enabling local residents to give time, skills or money to inform services in their community. This grant supports the organisation’s Future Change Makers Fund, a participatory grant-making programme through which 16–25-year-olds make decisions on which youth services the organisation funds. Over the next 24 months, Camden Giving will increase its grant spend, develop new youth-led approaches to reporting, integrate a racial justice focus into the programme, and improve its evaluation.

C4WS Homeless Project supports people experiencing homelessness to access housing and employment and to rebuild their lives. This grant provides core funding to support C4WS to build a more sustainable winter night shelter for 2022–23 including support for guests to secure accommodation and employment.

The London Legal Support Trust is an independent charity that raises funds for free legal advice services in London and the South East. They support free legal advice centres through the provision of grant funding, supporting infrastructure of the sector, and helping agencies reduce costs and save money via pro bono or discounted schemes. This grant supports the Trust to carry out research into existing pathways to the advice sector, particularly specialisms in immigration advice, in order to identify gaps in training provision and barriers to work in order to build good practise models, ideas and solutions.

London Funders is the membership network for funders and investors of London’s civil society. This grant supports the production of learning reports from 45 workshops ran as part of the London Funders ​‘Festival of Learning’. This will allow learning to be shared with over 200 funders from across multiple sectors to strengthen funder practice for effective longer-term working.

Inc Arts champions the creative, contractual and economic rights of the UK’s African, Asian, Caribbean and ethnically diverse arts sector workforce. They make inclusive change in the arts and cultural sector and envisage a thriving cultural community that allows everyone to do their best work. This grant underpins Inc Arts’ core activities and running costs across research and advocacy, to allow the organisation to respond to increased demand and engagement.

Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) work to ensure that the lived experience of women and girls inform policy and practice through a well-resourced and sustainably supported women’s sector. This grant supports WRC’s Exhale Retreat programme which will allow the organisation to think about its business model and sustainability, engage Black women in the sector to consider ways to improve the retreat for the longer term, including increasing and deepening intersectionality in the retreat.

Students Organising for Sustainability UK (SOS-UK) is a student-led education charity focusing on sustainability, with work spanning issues of social justice and wellbeing. This grant supports SOS-UK’s student staff from across the globe to coordinate plans and engagement for the COP26 Education Minister’s Summit to centre youth voice and create productive dialogue for climate education.

The Museums Association is a membership organisation for everyone working in museums, galleries and heritage. They campaign for socially engaged museums and a vibrant and inclusive workforce. This grant supports a UK-wide programme to embed decolonising work in museum professional development. The programme will disseminate, enhance and increase the impact of guidance published by the Museums Association in 2021 on behalf of its Decolonisation Guidance Working Group.

Lancashire BME Network supports Black and minoritised communities in Lancashire through advocacy, support and programmes covering financial resilience, employment, loneliness, mental health and small grants for community groups. This grant supports the development of a Lancashire BAME Youth Work Network which will support youth workers and young people from Black and minoritised backgrounds to inform regional and national youth work policy and practice.

Young Leicestershire is a voluntary sector youth charity providing infrastructure support to 30groups who support vulnerable young people in the county to develop their potential. This grant supports Young Leicestershire to develop, evaluate and scale a mental health and wellbeing toolkit for youthwork groups.

You Press is a social enterprise that helps young people and underrepresented communities get their voices heard through the creative arts, writing and multi-media production. They use words and storytelling to improve society, help individuals grow and connect communities. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.