Grants database

City of Sanctuary UK is a growing network of groups, villages, towns, cities and regions across the UK, engaged in activities intended to welcome people seeking sanctuary. They also contribute towards wider movement building through partnership work, advocacy and campaigning initiatives. This grant supports City of Sanctuary to enhance organisational sustainability and strengthen its network to build a welcoming environment for people who migrate to the UK.

Act Build Change supports people and organisations to build power, develop leadership and care for relationships. They aim to make community organising accessible to all and build a network of leaders committed to justice. This grant enables Act Build Change to develop a programme of collective training shaped by and for the migration sector. This training focuses on three key areas: development of training offer and staffing; fostering clarity of approach via research and collaboration; and organisational development.

West End Women and Girls empowers women and girls who have been traditionally denied their rights to access existing services and effect positive change in their environment. This grant supports a peer education project to mobilise young working-class women with lived experience of gender inequality to build local campaigns, harness their collective power, change policy and legislation to create better gender equality for young women in the North East.

The 4Front Project is a member-led youth organisation empowering young people and communities to fight for justice, peace and freedom. They support members with experiences of violence and the criminal justice system to create change in their own lives, communities and society. This grant supports resource provision for the youth-led 4Mation campaign and the 4Mation Peace Fellowship, which builds the capacity of young activists to lead campaigns.

RECLAIM supports young working-class people living in Greater Manchester to lead change in the systems that limit working class young people’s opportunities. This grant supports young people to campaign nationally and locally around issues of discrimination, inequality and stigmatisation arising from unfair economic and political systems.

Phoenix Education supports young people to lead change and facilitates collaborative decision making between schools, colleges and their communities. This grant supports the organisation’s Student Voice and Refugee Support Network to engage young change makers in designing, planning and delivering their own social action projects that will improve young people’s experience of the education sector.

Newport Mind provides support services for adults and young people who experience mental health problems. This grant supports the hiring of a Service Development Worker to work with young people to lead the #ChangeIt campaign delivering training to professionals to improve their awareness and professional practices.

My Life My Say is a youth-led charity that empowers young people to participate in democracy. This grant supports the continued development of the Groundbreaker Fellowship programme, which provides training sessions in mobilisation, public speaking, fundraising, media/​communications and branding to young people who want to lead change.

MAP is an established youth organisation, delivering across Norfolk and supporting 11–25 year olds, to make a successful transition to adulthood, through advice, counselling and youth work. This grant provides additional core funding alongside an annual package of support towards organisational innovation, development and growth. Investment will achieve youth driven and led growth in service delivery and influence.

Gloucestershire Young Carers works with children and young people with a caring responsibility for a family member. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth plans, and to support young carers to build on their strengths, achieve their aspirations and experience a positive transition to adulthood.

Football Beyond Borders uses football to support marginalised young people to raise attainment and aspirations. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth plans, and to scale work providing long-term, intensive support, built around relationships and young people’s passions, so they thrive in the classroom and beyond.

Empire Fighting Chance uses non-contact boxing and intensive individual support to inspire young people experiencing disadvantage to make positive changes in their lives and improve their mental health. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth plans, and to scale work harnessing the power of non-contact boxing to mentor, provide therapy and offer careers support for young people to change their lives.