Grants database

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.

The Difference creates specialist senior school leaders, with the expertise to lead whole-school and multi-agency approaches to meeting the learning, wellbeing and safeguarding needs of all children, and most crucially those with high levels of need and vulnerability. This grant supports a third cohort of Difference Leaders to complete an intensive training and placement programme, in order to develop expertise in inclusive school leadership.

Nick of Time Productions is led by director, producer and founder Nicolas Kent. This grant supports the production of a verbatim play about the Grenfell Inquiry edited by Richard Norton-Taylor at the Tabernacle Theatre. The play is planned to run for five weeks followed by a week-long run at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

Comic Relief and Paul Hamlyn Foundation are working in partnership to deliver the Tech for Good funding programme, which supports non-profits who are using technology to deliver new ideas and make services more effective. This grant provides funding for two additional Tech for Good projects and to build the capacity of training partners CAST.

YWCA Scotland – The Young Women’s Movement – is a feminist organisation which creates transformational spaces that enable young women to lead personal, community and institutional change. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Youth Initiatives specialises in long term, relationship based, preventative youth work in areas of high social need in Northern Ireland. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.