Grants database
305 results
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Core funding for Voices in ExileVoices in Exile
Voices in Exile are a small frontline charity working with people who migrate and those with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) in Brighton, Sussex and Surrey. They offer practical and legal support ranging from generalist advice to specialist immigration casework for those who would otherwise be unable to access justice. This grant underpins Voices in Exile’s core work, enabling them to continue providing high-quality legal advice and casework to address individual and systemic injustice, increase access to rights, entitlements and services, and increase the role of those with lived experience within the organisation.
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Organising for Power programmeTripod Training for Creative Social Action
Tripod Training for Creative Social Action is a small training collective based in Edinburgh. They offer training, facilitation, systems-building and other support to grassroots collectives, and charities to strengthen movements for social, economic and climate justice. This grant supports the delivery of phase two of Tripod’s Organising for Power (O4P) programme. Thirty leaders, organisers, and campaigners will conduct their own deep analysis of their chosen issues and context, plan strategic campaigns, organise their communities, negotiate with power brokers, and build alliances to mobilise around shared issues.
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Future Voices programmeThe Voice of Domestic Workers
The Voice of Domestic Workers (VODW) is an education and support group working for justice and rights for Britain’s 16,000 migrant domestic workers (MDWs). They seek an end to discrimination against MDWs living in the UK through campaigns, education, training, healthcare and legal advice. This grant supports VODW to deliver Future Voices, a programme to build the capacity of 12 members through mentoring and skills development in partnership with English for Action and Sounddelivery. The programme will grow the impact of VODW and create a pipeline for new leaders.
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Windrush Justice Clinic: Ensuring victims receive advice and fair compensation
Southwark Law Centre
Southwark Law Centre provides specialist legal advice for people who cannot afford to pay for services in the areas of discrimination, employment, housing, planning, welfare rights, and immigration and asylum law. This grant supports the Centre’s Windrush Justice Clinic (WJC), which acts a single point of contact for Windrush victims. They will continue to offer free independent legal advice so that victims can successfully apply for compensation which accurately reflects their loss and suffering.
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National partners, bigger impact: Countering divisive narratives
Sheffield Methodist District – Who Is Your Neighbour
Sheffield Methodist District’s Who Is Your Neighbour? (WIYN) programme operates at neighbourhood, regional and national levels to counter the impact of divisive narratives. They facilitate dialogue about immigration, race and other relevant issues. This grant supports strategic long-term national partnerships for WIYN, incorporating training, bespoke support and tailored interventions with three national organisations and their members.
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Time for Change: A lived experience advocacy and leadership development programme
Saheliya
Saheliya provides trauma-informed, wrap-around support in first languages for women with experience of racial inequality. They offer specialised support for women who have been traumatised due to lived experience of gendered abuse and who are unable to access appropriate mainstream services. This grant supports Saheliya to work with Black and minoritised women with lived experience of gender-based violence to find opportunities for change, collaborate with sector partners, develop lived experience leadership and advocate to policy makers.
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Support of grassroots and digital organising for immigrant communities
Polish Migrants Organise for Change (POMOC)
Polish Migrants Organise for Change (POMOC) aims to improve the lives of Polish women living in the UK. Their mission is rooted in advancing citizenship and community development. This grant supports POMOC to deepen their organising practice and expand regional and national reach through campaigning, leadership development and strategic communications work.
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Divestment from the Border Industry Campaign
People & Planet
People & Planet is the largest student network in the UK campaigning for social and environmental justice. They mobilise students to campaign for justice from public and private institutions that act in the interests of profit over human rights and a liveable planet. This grant supports People & Planet’s network of student groups to deliver divestment campaigns in partnership with migration organisations. It will target universities’ investments and companies that profit from human rights abuses in the ‘border industry’ of migration enforcement.
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Creating a new ecosystem for people who have migrated in Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council
Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council (NREC) campaigns for social justice in Northamptonshire. They support individual victims of discrimination, monitor hate incidents and raise awareness of the human rights of individuals. This grant supports NREC to underpin a programme to support people who have recently migrated to North Northamptonshire and consolidate the organisation’s migration-related services in the county.
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Breaking the Chains – young migrants and refugees surviving and thriving
MiCLU – The Migrant and Refugee Childrens Legal Unit at Islington Law Centre
The Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU) is a specialist child centred legal and policy hub based at Islington Law Centre, representing children and young people (CYP) in the immigration system. They seek to achieve social justice by ensuring that policy and practice respect the rights and improve the lives of children who have migrated to the UK. This grant supports MiCLU to employ a Senior Advocate at fellow charity Shpresa, and a Senior Caseworker at MiCLU, who will identify and engage CYP through legal education, advice surgeries and referrals.
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Restructuring to better support our sector and our movement
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI)
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) provides legal support for people who have migrated to the UK and their families, specialising in immigration and asylum law and policy. This grant supports JCWI to undertake a strategic review including consultation with over 100 partners to identify the gaps and needs that they can meet over the next five years. This will be accompanied by a restructuring of the organisation to better deliver the new strategy for 2022–27.
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Migration and integration policy unit
Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is the UK’s pre-eminent progressive think tank. Their work spans politics, economics, environment, housing, jobs and skills, public services and migration. This grant underpins and formalises IPPR’s role in the wider migration ecosystem, enabling them to launch a policy unit that will offer responsive and robust support to organisations who are working to improve migration and integration policy in the UK.