Grants database

The Winch is a North Camden charity which offers a ​“cradle to career” pipeline of group and intensive one-to-one activities for children and young people aged 0–25 and their parents. It aims to maximise personal and material wellbeing and ensure positive relationships for all children and young people in North Camden. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for two youth-led campaigns that will equip young people experiencing disadvantage with the means to lead social action, and effect real change on systems currently failing young people.

The Warren is a well-established youth charity, based in Hull. It offers a variety of services including an open access youth space, counselling, music service with associated record label, active LGBTQ and young women’s groups and sexual health advice. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for ​‘The Thing’, the youth-led empowerment and governance structure at the heart of The Warren. The grant also funds a part-time Empowerment Support Worker; a part-time Digital Media Campaign Facilitator; and additional resources around marketing, publishing and mental health support.

The Hummingbird Project provides services in Brighton and Sussex for unaccompanied young people seeking asylum or with refugee status. This grant will support the organisation to further consolidate the Young Leaders Programme and enhance support and opportunities for graduates of the programme. They will also form an organisational Youth Board and share learning from the programme nationally.

The Advocacy Academy is a charity based in London which supports marginalised young people to understand and tackle the social issues that directly affect them. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for a new, full-time Programme Director post. The post holder will focus on the development and scaling of the organisation’s Social Justice Leadership Fellowship programme, creating a replicable and scalable model and recruitment strategy. This will help to give the Academy extra capacity to focus on strategic development and expansion.

Trefnu Cymunedol Cymru/​Together Creating Communities (TCC) uses community organising principles to bring together a variety of groups including community groups, faith groups and schools to create long-term community cohesion in North East Wales. This grant provides an emergency extension of Covid-19 support to expand TCC’s youth and community organiser post, providing training and support for young leaders to run strategic campaigns on the issues affecting them.

Praxis supports migrants to have a voice, live in safety, meet their basic needs and overcome the barriers to integration. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support to Brighter Futures, an established peer community which facilitates young people impacted by immigration policy to change the way the world sees them by reducing negative perceptions amongst the young UK population.

Platform combines art, activism, education and research to create unique projects driven by the need for social and ecological justice. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support towards Platform’s Transformative Toolkit. This includes events produced by marginalised young people to codify, distribute practice and influence policy, leading on from from ten years of Platform’s youth-led programme ​‘Voices that Shake!’.

Peer Power supports young people with lived experience of the criminal justice, social services and mental health systems – empowering them to advocate for positive change within systems and services. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for the development of creative empathy training packages to equip peers with the campaigning skills needed to enable system change.

Off the Record (OTR) is a youth mental health charity working in Bristol and South Gloucestershire. It offers programmes focused on therapy for anxiety, self-harm, trauma, and psychosis, alongside more informal drop-in sessions. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support to support 80 young activists addressing the injustice and disparities in mental health experience and support for Black and minoritised young people.

Northern Ireland Youth Forum (NIYF) is a youth-led voluntary organisation delivering projects across Northern Ireland while promoting youth voice in decision making. It has a membership of over 4,000 young people, aged 11–25. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for NIYF’s Leadership Studio, a physical resource space in central Belfast for young activists to meet and engage in campaigns, participative democracy and social justice programmes. It also funds a Relentless Youth Worker to deliver programmes to young people experiencing heightened disadvantage and to increase the organisation’s capacity for policy and influencing work.

My Life My Choice (MLMC) is a user-led self-advocacy charity working to improve the life and voice of people with learning disabilities in Oxfordshire. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for a Young Champions training programme and parliament run by and for young people with learning disabilities to engage them in campaigning and support them to make social change.

Mancroft Advice Project (MAP) supports 11–25 year olds across Norfolk to make a successful transition to adulthood, through advice, counselling and youth work. This grant provides an emergency extension as part of Covid-19 support to challenge bullying and discrimination of young people in Norfolk and its root causes. This work aims to bring about change through a culture of acceptance and kindness amongst young people.