Grants database
305 results
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Influencing, Agency and Voice for Young RefugeesKent Refugee Action Network (KRAN)
Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN) relieves the hardship of refugees, asylum seekers and their dependents in Kent, providing advice, information, education and support. KRAN has established youth leadership at the organisational level by employing four Youth Ambassadors (YA) through its Youth Ambassadors Programme. This grant will support two more young people to become Youth Ambassadors, using their agency, influence and voice in the public domain.
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Hopeful Towns NetworkHOPE not Hate
Hope not Hate aims to challenge racism and help build communities that are inclusive, celebrate shared identities and are resilient to hate. To do this, their work focuses on community action and engagement, research, training and educational services. This grant will support a project that aims to build resilience to hate messaging in towns in England and Wales and a stronger civic society with trust in the rule of law. Funding will support a network of leaders and organisations within towns who will respond to local needs and pressure points and share learning to enable rapid response to provocative elements.
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Empowering Eastern EuropeansEast European Resource Centre
East European Resource Centre (EERC) is an independent charity that provides information, advice, advocacy and voice to Eastern European migrants in London and beyond, particularly those who are experiencing disadvantage and exploitationThis grant will provide core funding to support EERC to grow its impact across service delivery, information resources and policy influencing.
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Revoke’s political partnerships programme
Revoke
Revoke is a grassroots organisation advocating for the rights and welfare of underserved young people, particularly refugees, asylum seekers, and those in the care system. This grant will enable Revoke to give a platform for young people to address how social issues such as housing, economics and the climate crisis affect displaced people. They will do this through a wide range of partnerships – connecting young people in the migration system to other social movements, training and mentorship.
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Reforming Home Office immigration schemes – lessons learned from Windrush
JUSTICE
JUSTICE is a law reform and human rights organisation, carrying out research to generate and evaluate recommendations to reform the justice system. With this grant, JUSTICE will support the Home Office to implement the recommendations of its Windrush Compensation Scheme research and use the learnings of the Windrush scheme to influence wider systematic change within the immigration system. The grant will also support JUSTICE to apply the lessons learned from the Windrush Report to other Home Office schemes that have similar issues, and subsequently their wider immigration casework.
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Support for Islington Law Centre’s Immigration Unit
Islington Law Centre
Islington Law Centre (ILC) supports marginalised people, achieving positive outcomes for clients and securing policy and practice change through strategic legal and policy work. This grant will support collaborative, strategic work by Islington Law Centre’s three migration focused teams: Migrant Law Project, Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit and the Community Facing Immigration Team.
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Rights in the Community
Central England Law Centre
Central England Law Centre (CELC) provides free legal advice and representation in the areas of community care, discrimination, employment, family, housing, immigration and asylum, and more. This grant will support the delivery of CELC’s Rights in the Community Strategy. This five-year strategy seeks to shift CELC’s community outreach, public legal education, partnership-working and strategic policy-influencing towards a community-driven model.
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Windrush grants and organisational development programme
Action for Race Equality
Action for Race Equality (ARE) works to end race inequality for Black, Asian and mixed heritage communities. This grant provides funds for ARE to deliver a programme of rapid small grants to support grassroot organisations responding to immediate need, with a focus on keeping the issue visible in public, media and politics via cultural interventions and strengthening these civil society organisations in the Windrush space. An advisory committee, including lived experience leaders, will support the programme.
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Windrush compensation and online support
United Legal Access (ULA)
United Legal Access (ULA) provides low-cost legal support in the community. They focus on providing legal assistance, legal education and advocating on behalf of migrant and ethnic minority groups, individuals and communities that are often marginalised, discriminated against and facing injustice. This grant supports the supervision, coordination and administration of ULA’s Windrush compensation support alongside increased digital promotion and outreach to support more people affected by the Windrush scandal.
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Supporting the appointment of PLP’s Legal Director
Public Law Project (PLP)
Migration Fund £10,000 East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK 2022The Public Law Project (PLP) is a legal charity working to improve access to justice in the UK and to ensure those marginalised through poverty, discrimination or disadvantage have access to the public law remedies necessary to hold the state to account. They employ lawyers and academics to support the sector with an expert, evidence-led approach across research and policy, training and support, casework and litigation. This grant supports PLP to appoint a Legal Director during a period of organisational change.
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Brighter Futures
Praxis
Praxis support migrants to have a voice, live in safety, meet their basic needs and overcome barriers to integration. They host and support Brighter Futures, a group of young people aged 16–25 who work together to speak up for young migrants and their rights and challenge negative perceptions of migration in the UK. This grant supports the continuation of Brighter Futures who campaign on the issues that affect them, with the support of a Youth Coordinator and partner Kazzum Arts. The group will be supported to deliver interventions that challenge discrimination and influence public debate.
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Immigration, Data and Technology – Stopping Data Discrimination
Open Rights Group (ORG)
Open Rights Group (ORG) is a digital campaigning organisation working to protect people’s rights to privacy and free speech online. They work to raise awareness of the threats of technological developments to human rights and challenge them through public campaigns, legal actions, policy interventions and tech projects. This grant supports ORG to carry out cross-sector challenges to data discrimination and exploitation policies and practices within the UK immigration system, through advocacy, campaigns and a network of 25 migrants’ rights groups.
