Grants database

Phoenix Education supports young people to lead change and facilitates collaborative decision making between schools, colleges and their communities. This grant supports the organisation’s Student Voice and Refugee Support Network to engage young change makers in designing, planning and delivering their own social action projects that will improve young people’s experience of the education sector.

Newport Mind provides support services for adults and young people who experience mental health problems. This grant supports the hiring of a Service Development Worker to work with young people to lead the #ChangeIt campaign delivering training to professionals to improve their awareness and professional practices.

My Life My Say is a youth-led charity that empowers young people to participate in democracy. This grant supports the continued development of the Groundbreaker Fellowship programme, which provides training sessions in mobilisation, public speaking, fundraising, media/​communications and branding to young people who want to lead change.

MAP is an established youth organisation, delivering across Norfolk and supporting 11–25 year olds, to make a successful transition to adulthood, through advice, counselling and youth work. This grant provides additional core funding alongside an annual package of support towards organisational innovation, development and growth. Investment will achieve youth driven and led growth in service delivery and influence.

Gloucestershire Young Carers works with children and young people with a caring responsibility for a family member. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth plans, and to support young carers to build on their strengths, achieve their aspirations and experience a positive transition to adulthood.

Football Beyond Borders uses football to support marginalised young people to raise attainment and aspirations. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth plans, and to scale work providing long-term, intensive support, built around relationships and young people’s passions, so they thrive in the classroom and beyond.

Empire Fighting Chance uses non-contact boxing and intensive individual support to inspire young people experiencing disadvantage to make positive changes in their lives and improve their mental health. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth plans, and to scale work harnessing the power of non-contact boxing to mentor, provide therapy and offer careers support for young people to change their lives.

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.

Sounddelivery 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.

Young 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.

women 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..

The 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.