Grants database

Digitspace provides British Sign Language (BSL) guided tours in national museums and galleries, covering themes around contemporary art, street art and architecture. They also facilitate art guide training for local deaf people and awareness workshops for curators and stakeholders in the North East. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Circles South West is an independent charity whose purpose is to reduce the risk of (re)offending by people who have sexually offended or have displayed harmful sexual behaviour. The organisation intends to sustain and grow their service across the South West, consolidate delivery practice and develop a trading arm to provide training and consultancy. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

The Chinese Community Centre is London’s centre for the preservation and promotion of Chinese culture, arts and identity. They aim to help the Chinese community to integrate into the UK at the same time as celebrating Chinese heritage. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

The Chartered College of Teaching is the professional body for teachers. They celebrate, support and connect teachers to take pride in their profession and provide the best possible education for children and young people. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

CARAS is a charity that supports refugees and asylum seekers in London to learn English, build supportive networks and access their rights and entitlements. Based in South London, they support separated children and young people who are seeking asylum (80%) and adult women (20%), with either unsettled or recently secured immigration status to integrate and live independent lives. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Body & Soul supports children, young people, and families whose lives have been affected by childhood adversity and trauma. It uses a ​‘whole person’ model of care rooted in a strengths-based approach that nurtures connection, healing and growth. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Black Lives in Music (BLiM) is dedicated to galvanising awareness and precipitating improvement in diversity at all levels in the UK music industry, specifically in the areas of Classical and Jazz in conservatoires, orchestras and professional ensembles. They stand for equal opportunities, and specifically for Black people to be able to work successfully in the UK music industry without being the subject of discrimination. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) provides legal advice and representation in bail matters to people detained under immigration powers. They undertake substantive legal casework for people who are facing deportation and use this to provide an evidence base for their policy work in their campaign for the abolition of immigration detention. This grant supports BID to invest in secure technology, hardware and training to allow them to bring back volunteers who are integral to the organisation’s advice provision.

Ardent Theatre Company produce theatre, career training and mentorship programmes, providing a platform for theatre industry voices and online resources. Their aim is to make theatre a place where no one feels like an outsider, welcoming people whose voices are unheard and stories untold. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Anti Racist Cumbria is a voluntary organisation created in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. They exist to identify, challenge, tackle, and end racism in Cumbria through practical projects that deal with the root causes of systemic racism in schools, businesses, communities and wider organisations. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Zareen Ali is using her experience from tech, education and psychology to carry out research that will form the basis of a new anti-racist school. This grant supports Zareen to co-design research with young people and communities in order to inform and shape plans for an anti-racist school in Newham, East London.

Founded by Winnie Ssanyu Sseruma, the Black Health Activists Mentoring & Empowering Network (BHAMEN) is a new organisation that aims to develop a network of Black health activists to empower communities to access health services. This grant supports the development of the first BHAMEN network in London and the South East, with the intention of rolling out to the rest of the UK, alongside development of an online platform.