Grants database

Beatfreeks is a youth led company in Birmingham that supports young people to develop skills, confidence and networks through creative activities and events. They also offer programmes focused on social impact and entrepreneurialism. This grant provides core support to Youth Voice, Insight and Power, a programme to ensure that young peoples’ insight is gathered and shared via the National Youth Trends 2021–2024 survey.

Young Scot is the national youth information and citizenship agency for young people in Scotland aged 11–26. They provide young people with information, ideas and opportunities, delivering targeted support and engagement programmes, infrastructure support and strategic leadership in areas such as collaboration and systems change.

The Ubele Initiative (Ubele) derives its name from the Swahili word meaning ​‘The Future’. They are an African Diaspora-led intergenerational social enterprise founded in 2014, with the purpose of helping to build more sustainable communities across the UK. Ubele supports a wide range of Black and minoritised communities, community-based organisations and groups with their community assets (people and physical spaces), through social action, community enterprise development and next-generation leadership initiatives.

Founded in 1888, NSEAD is the trade union, learned society and professional body for art, craft and design educators across the UK. They work to protect and promote the subject and the professional interests of those engaged in it, led by and accountable to its members who represent art, craft and design teachers, lecturers, museum and gallery educators, institutions and organisations.

Imkaan is the only UK-based umbrella women’s organisation dedicated to addressing violence against Black and minoritised women and girls. Imkaan works at local, national and international level, and in partnership with a range of member organisations, to improve policy and practice responses to Black and minoritised women and girls.

The Fair Education Alliance is a coalition of over 200 organisations including charities, business, social enterprise, policy and educational institutions, which aims to tackle inequality in the education system. The Fair Education Alliance’s vision is that no child’s success is limited by their socio-economic background. They support organisations to work together to take collective action, influence policy and practice and help organisations scale their impact to reach more children.

The Centre for Knowledge Equity was launched in December 2019 to elevate lived experience leadership, and to ensure knowledge from lived experience is given equity alongside learned and practice experience to catalyse change and solve the social, economic and environmental challenges of our time. In a short period, the Centre has become an important and influential organisation stimulating systems change through pioneering collaborations with funders, academic institutions, government bodies, social purpose organisations and activist movements globally that equitably and meaningfully unite lived, learned, and practiced expertise.

The Bureau Local is a people-powered network setting the news agenda and sparking change from the ground up. Part of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the team collaborates with communities to report on inequality and to uncover new data and evidence that can be used to drive change. They share resources and use innovative techniques to investigate, revealing information in the public interest to challenge power at the highest level. Working closely with local reporters as well as national news partners, they bring widespread attention to systemic failings through stories that matter to communities across the UK.

The Association of Chairs is a membership organisation supporting Chairs and Vice Chairs of charities and social enterprises in England and Wales. They support over 900 members with a unique peer network, providing information, resources, workshops and briefings designed specifically for those in a chairing role, to help them lead their boards effectively and ensure good governance and outcomes for the organisations they lead.

The Anna Freud Centre is a world-leading mental health charity for children and families which has developed and delivered pioneering mental health care for over 70 years. Through its Schools Division, Anna Freud Centre reaches over one million children and young people in schools and colleges each year, by providing resources, training and supporting the workforce, and researching how best to support pupils and students.

Agenda campaigns for a society where women and girls fulfil their potential and live free from inequality, poverty, abuse, and violence. They aim to influence policies affecting young women and girls with multiple disadvantage, bringing about practical and systemic change, raising awareness across sectors, and promoting public and political understanding of the lives of women and girls facing multiple disadvantages.

The University of Manchester is the UK’s largest single-site university and leads Greater Manchester Young Persons Wellbeing Programme (GMYPWP) alongside the Anna Freud Centre, the Youth Sports Trust and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. This grant supports University of Manchester to co-design and implement a three-year research programme with young people that will assess and support their wellbeing. The research will aim to reach young people in Years 8 to 10 in up to 250 secondary schools across Greater Manchester.