Grants database
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Youth Strategic Investment FundChildren’s Law Centre
The Children’s Law Centre (CLC) is a national charity based in Belfast which empowers children and young people. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth plans to enable CLC to uphold children and young people’s rights, ensuring they can participate, are valued, their rights are respected and guaranteed without discrimination, and every child can achieve their full potential.
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‘Experts through experience’ spokesperson networkSounddelivery Media
£80,000 UK-wide, UK 2021Sounddelivery Media is a charity that aims to amplify lived experience stories and expertise to address social inequalities. This grant supports Sounddelivery Media to develop and deliver a spokespersons programme and network to enable people with lived experience to change perceptions, contribute to solutions, influence policy and create positive change through firsthand stories. This work will ensure that more experts through experience are visible in the media and have their ideas heard more widely.
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Creating a future where all young people in Camden thriveYoung Camden Foundation
£40,000 London, UK 2021Young Camden Foundation (YCF) aims to address the growing uncertainty of long-term investment in the youth sector and the need to build more cross-sector partnerships. This grant supports YCF to increase long-term investment in Camden’s children and young people sector, enable new cross-sector collaborations, build organisational capacity, and help ensure that young people feel safe, listened to, and are thriving and achieving their full potential.
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Underpinning support for women affected by prostitutionwomen at the well
£90,000 London, UK 2021women at the well supports women whose lives are affected by, or at risk of being affected by prostitution in communities in Camden, Islington and Haringey. This grant underpins the work of the women-only service located in Kings’ Cross..
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Covid-19 Emergency Funding: Online impact delivery and resourcesThe Centre for Youth Impact
£50,000 UK-wide, UK 2021The Centre for Youth Impact supports all those involved in the design, delivery, funding and evaluation of provision for young people to understand and improve the impact of their work. This grant supports The Centre in maintaining online delivery and resources to ensure it is able to play a key role in collective impact work throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.
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Maximising organisational impact through improved learning and evaluationNew Horizon Youth Centre
£50,000 London, UK 2021New Horizon Youth Centre supports homeless and vulnerable young people to secure independence and stable futures. This grant supports the provision of holistic support for young people experiencing homelessness in London as well as engaging decision makers to understand the scale of the issue and invest in solutions.
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Story GardenGlobal Generation
£40,000 London, UK 2021Global Generation is an educational charity which works with local children and young people, businesses, residents and families in Camden, Islington and Southwark to create healthy, integrated and environmentally responsible communities. This funding will contribute towards the running of the Story Garden in Camden. This community space and resource connects people of all ages to nature in the middle of the city, offering weekly activities that nurture physical and mental wellbeing.
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Engaging young people in Caledonian Road and BarnsburyCopenhagen Youth Project (CYP)
£25,000 London, UK 2021CYP works in partnership with young people to create and sustain a positive youth culture. CYP is a unique youth project working in partnership with young people to create and sustain a positive youth culture. This grant supports work to engage and inform young people in the Caledonian Road and Barnsbury area of London and to provide a safe, youth-led space where they can learn and develop.
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London Community Response learning partnerLondon Funders
£18,000 London, UK 2021London Funders is the membership network for funders and investors of London’s civil society. This grant contributed to the costs of commissioning learning partners on behalf of the London Community Response to explore potential for continued and longer-term funder collaboration, highlight opportunities to build on work of civil society groups responding to crisis, and find ways to strengthen approaches to equity and inclusion across our work.
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Campaigning on climate finance in the run up to COP26Positive Money
£20,000 UK-wide, UK 2021Positive Money is a not-for-profit research and campaigning organisation who lead on money and banking reform. Their vision is for a money and banking system that serves a fair, democratic, and sustainable economy. This grant supports Positive Money to mobilise their network around the issue of the Bank of England’s funding of fossil fuels ahead of COP26. They will also coordinate joint media and advocacy work with partner organisations and run a citizens assembly on a “wellbeing economy”.
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An index of foundation diversity, transparency and accountabilityFriends Provident Foundation
£15,000 UK-wide, UK 2021Friends Provident Foundation is an independent charity that makes grants and uses their endowment towards a fair and sustainable economic system that serves society. They aim to connect, fund, invest and share learning to shape an economy that works for all. This grant supports a review of publicly available data on foundation governance and practice for the top 100 UK foundations in order to compile an index. The research will be conducted by Giving Evidence and is planned to be published by Civil Society Media and repeated for at least three years.
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Creative and Cultural Industries workforce panels with Metro MayorsCulture Commons
£20,000 East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK 2021Culture Commons is an organisation that blends public relations, stakeholder management, campaign strategy and traditional lobbying on order to help amplify the voices of creative organisations who want their work to have an impact on policy at local, national and international level. This grant supports a series of regional panels with partners advocating for the creative and cultural industries workforce in Metro Mayoral areas as part of a broader programme of work to develop a pledge and advocacy strategy for local leaders.