Grants database

Arts & Business NI is a membership organisation for cultural and commercial businesses in Northern Ireland. This grant supports Arts and Business NI to deliver Blueprint, a bespoke programme designed to meet the unique needs of Northern Ireland based arts organisations and based on a four-year programme of research led by Arts & Business NI and delivered by Small Change NI. The programme will support small to mid-scale artistic and cultural companies from across Northern Ireland, meeting a current gap in provision and develop a cluster of organisations, investing in them over a five-year period to strengthen long term financial sustainability.

Refugee Action help refugees and people seeking asylum to build safe, happy and productive lives in the UK. This grant supports the organisation to carry out more detailed regional mapping research into the provision of and demand for legal immigration advice, which will result in a more nuanced picture as well as include perspectives of people with lived experience of the immigration system.

The Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) is an independent charity that works closely with people and organisations striving for social change. They use research to develop practical responses to the challenges faced by organisations and create opportunities for people to learn from their findings. This grant supports The Evaluation Roundtable, a partnership between IVAR and the Center for Evaluation Innovation. It offers independent trusts and foundations an opportunity to gather and reflect on the design, development and use of different approaches to evaluation and learning.

The Good Ancestor Movement is a new movement that advocates for radical, reparative and regenerative wealth redistribution. This grant supports the Movement to undertake systems change based action inquiry on reforming the private wealth advisory industry into a community that supports progressive wealth stewardship and redistribution. Work will centre around an initial research and consultation exercise with practitioners, leaders and key stakeholders in the private wealth industry, as well as wealth holders.

Ten Years Time (TYT) advises high-net-worth individuals to think about philanthropy differently, bringing them closer to the communities they wish to support and supporting the distribution of funds. They focus on the voices of those experiencing marginalisation and tackle structural barriers through an anti-oppression and intersectional lens. This grant supports TYT in a transition phase where they will rethink their approaches and positioning through rebranding.

Newtownabbey Arts and Cultural Network is a youth and community charity working in the Rathcoole estate in Belfast, using creative and digital arts. This grant supports the organisation to increase staff capacity and engage with people that are at high risk of becoming involved in anti-social behaviour or riotous behaviour, or at high risk of harm.

Love Ssega is a musician, songwriter and curator. This grant supports the development of three distinct projects to consolidate Ssega public-focused work. It provides an extension of the project Airs of the South Circular from Lewisham to neighbouring boroughs Lambeth and Southwark as part of a new multi-arts campaign of public engagement to raise awareness of the toxic effects of air pollution on underrepresented Black and minoritised communities.

Enact Equality are a non-profit organisation working to advance racial justice and equality in the UK. Their fundamental aim is to build an anti-racist movement made up of businesses, brands, celebrities and organisations, whilst also creating a cross-party alliance of politicians at local, national and government level. This grant supports Enact Equality to fulfil their role as secretariat of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Race Equality in Education. The APPG aims to support children and students from minoritised backgrounds, to enhance educational environments, and to increase racial diversity in teaching across the UK.

The Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action (CIVA) is an innovations centre which develops, pilots and funds new ideas for addressing social problems. This grant supports CIVA to research and develop the case for a greater delegation of power through the creation of a £12.5 million Black and minoritised community-led investment fund to change longstanding racial inequalities in the cultural sector.

Catalyst is a network helping UK civil society grow their digital skills and processes. They connect charities and supporting organisations with free resources and services to make digital working easier. This grant supports Catalyst to continue delivery of vital support services, further develop projects and prototypes that have the potential for sector-wide impact, and transition towards a more equitable network-led model.

Youth Realities are a creative education organisation who aim to increase young people’s awareness and understanding of relationship abuse, power dynamics, safety and respect. They run workshops in schools, provide one-to-one support and advocacy to young women who have experienced domestic and/​or relationship abuse, and work with young men to help them understand healthy relationships. This grant supports an additional Youth Support Worker to work across Youth Realities’ programmes and provide practical and emotional support to young people. This includes liaising with other professionals within education, housing, and health services; social workers; and youth offending teams.

Youth Access is the membership organisation for a national network of Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services (YIACS). They champion young people’s right to access local, high quality, evidence-informed advice, counselling and support services. This grant provides core support to Youth Access enabling them to maintain capacity, access external expertise, maximise membership, invest in technical tools and infrastructure and maintain a focus on staff wellbeing and welfare across network members.