Grants database
305 results
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Delivering a permanent Migration Museum for BritainMigration Museum
Migration Fund £240,000 East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK 2022The Migration Museum explores how the movement of people to and from Britain across the ages has made us who we are – as individuals and as a nation. From their current base in Lewisham, they stage exhibitions and events and deliver an education programme for primary, secondary, university and adult learners. They also convene a knowledge-sharing Migration Network of museums and galleries across the UK. This grant supports the organisation to deliver on their ambition to create a permanent Migration Museum for Britain, through a four-year programme of public engagement, audience research, education programmes, exhibitions, events and media campaigns.
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Enhancing staff capacity and national networksMigrant Voice
Migrant Voice is a migrant-led, national organisation focused on migrant-centred communications, campaigning and advocacy to achieve migrants’ rights and justice for all. They build migrants’ skills to speak in the media in order to strengthen migrant voices in civil society, counter xenophobia and build support for migrants’ rights. This grant provides core support for the roles of Director and Head of Development who will implement a new strategy that will increase Migrant Voice’s impact. They will extend their network into two more geographic areas and galvanise more organisations to collaborate around their thematic priorities.
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AVID organisational transformation projectAVID (Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees)
The Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID) is the national charity and network of voluntary organisations providing support for people in detention. They aim to ensure that all those affected by detention can access a visitor to support them, and to achieve fundamental reform of hostile policies through awareness raising and community building. This grant supports AVID to implement strategic transformation which will see people with lived experience of the immigration system guiding AVID’s work. This work will include refreshing AVID’s strategic goals, and researching, implementing and monitoring new ways to ensure decision making is meaningfully lived-experience led.
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Citizenship and Integration Initiative
Trust for London
This grant provides support for the Citizenship and Integration Initiative, a pooled fund seconding staff from civil society organisations into the Greater London Authority’s Social Integration team, to increase access to advice to EU Londoners and young people with insecure status and democratic participation in the capital.
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Explore and Test: Roma News Project
Roma Support Group
The Roma Support Group is a Roma-led organisation working with East European Roma refugees and migrants. This grant will support the organisation to explore and test a participatory media and advocacy project to enable young Roma to have their voice heard in advocacy and influencing work, complementing their existing advocacy work.
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Explore and Test: Realising Migrant Rights in UK Digitised Government
Open Rights Group
Migration Fund £60,000 East Midlands, London, Multi-region, North West, Scotland, South West, West Midlands, UK 2022Open Rights Group protects the digital rights of people in the UK including privacy and free speech online. This grant will support the organisation to use collaborative advocacy and campaign approaches to equip voluntary organisations in the migration sector to protect people’s rights online, and to tackle issues in government use of data and technologies within the sector.
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Emergency funding for core costs
Migrants Rights Network
Migrants’ Right Network (MRN) advocates for a rights-based approach to migration. Core funding will support MRN to implement a new strategy fostering connections and collective action on key migration issues.
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Explore and Test: Exploring and Testing Fair Immigration Reform Movement Building
Migrants Organise
Migration Fund £45,000 East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK 2022Migrants Organise is a shared organising platform for refugees and migrants acting together for justice. Through this grant, Migrants Organise will support an emerging grassroots national campaign for Fair Immigration Reform using a Charter to build a coherent immigrant rights movement led and designed by the people affected by these policies and subject to immigration control.
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Empowering our communities – creating more and better migrant leadership
Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB)
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is a trade union that organises precarious predominantly migrant labour workforces, in outsourced and ‘gig-economy’ or low-paid self-employment sectors. This grant will support the organisation to empower migrant workers to lead campaigns to claim their rights through community and civic participation.
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Explore and Test: Protecting children from harmful hostile environment policies by reducing statelessness
European Network on Statelessness
European Network on Statelessness works to eradicate statelessness in Europe. This grant will support the organisation to reduce childhood statelessness through specific legal pathways, and to support children and young people with insecure status to access their right to a nationality.
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Explore and Test: Embedding the voice of migrants into policy in Wales
Bevan Foundation
The Bevan Foundation develops new, practical ideas to make Wales fair, prosperous and sustainable, working with people affected by inequality and injustice. This grant supports Bevan to explore and test new ways of involving people with lived experience of migration in policy development, influencing and decision-making in Wales.
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Building a supportive and humane asylum process for women
Women for Refugee Women
Women for Refugee Women (WfRW) is a charity that supports and empowers women who seek asylum in the UK. They enable refugee and asylum-seeking women to become leaders, ensure they can speak to the media and at public events, publish robust research on their experiences, and work with policymakers to make the case for a fairer asylum process. This grant supports WfRW to continue their main support and empowerment activities, as well as provide mentoring and training for trustee and leadership roles, develop campaigns to oppose the Nationality and Borders Bill, and strengthen the Sisters Not Strangers coalition.