Grants database

Leonard Cheshire is a leading pan-disability organisation that supports disabled people to live, learn and work as independently as they choose – whatever their ability. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for Future Leaders, a programme which develops the skills of youth disability advocates to mobilise peers and lead social change through grassroots campaigns tackling discrimination against disabled people.

Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN) works to relieve the hardship of refugees, asylum seekers and their dependents in Kent, providing advice, information, education and support. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support and builds on KRAN’s Listening Fund project to establish a Youth Forum for action and social change in Kent.

Just for Kids Law is a London-based legal charity working with vulnerable children and young people from birth to the age of 25. It supports them to understand their rights, providing specialist advocacy and representation services alongside pathways into education and employment. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for a project that will engage young people with lived experience of school exclusion to undertake social action. The grant will fund a Youth Engagement Officer to coordinate the project and ensure the voices of young people are reflected in policy and practice reform discussion and proposals.

Irise International works across the UK and East Africa to realise period equality for everyone. They support young people and their communities to address menstruation related barriers and work with a wide range of partners to disseminate learning and roll out programmes to support long-term delivery. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for a grassroots movement of young people advocating to end period poverty and shame at a local and national level.

Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire is a community organisation working with a range of communities experiencing disadvantage. They aim to strengthen people, spark action and shift power across services in Coventry and Warwickshire by working with individuals, systems and organisations. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for a Coventry Youth Activists (CYA) campaign against youth loneliness, generating sustainable youth-led initiatives.

FORWARD is an award winning African-led, women’s rights organisation working to combat multiple forms of violence against women and girls. They work by fostering partnerships with young people and local organisations to develop leadership capacity, convene safe spaces and provide opportunities to engage key actors to bring about social and policy changes. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for FORWARD’s young women’s leadership hub.

Comics Youth provides comics-based literacy and wellbeing projects for marginalised children and young people aged 8–25 within Liverpool City Region. Their mission is to provide a voice for hard to reach young people by providing them the tools to express themselves, improve their literacy and speak truth to power through creating comics around community issues. This grant provides an extension to Covid-19 support for the Marginal Activist project, which supports 150 young people to lead and develop a publishing house.

Children and Young People’s Empowerment Project (Chilypep) supports young people to raise awareness of their needs among organisations and service providers. They help them to reach their potential, exercise their rights and have a voice, by building skills and confidence. This grant provides an extension to Covid-19 support for Chilypep’s Youth Led Social Action Studio where young people who experience inequality and social injustice can develop their own campaigns.

Beatfreeks is a youth led company in Birmingham that supports young people to develop skills, confidence and networks through creative activities and events. It also offers programmes focused on social impact and entrepreneurialism. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for REACT, Beatfreeks’ novel approach to working with young people. Through REACT, Beatfreeks will mobilise young people through art activism projects, offer small grants to young people for their campaigns, work with them to amplify the impact and reach of their work.

42nd Street is a young people’s mental health charity in Greater Manchester which supports 11–25-year olds with their emotional wellbeing and mental health, promoting choice and creativity. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for 42nd Street’s Peer Activists as they lead a peer-inspired social action project around social injustice within mental health and social care systems.

StreetDoctors is a volunteer-led movement of young people tackling youth violence. StreetDoctors aims to reduce the harm caused by youth violence by recruiting medical student volunteers to teach targeted groups of young people essential life-saving skills. This grant provides core funding to support strategic and operational growth, and to scale work to train young people at risk to become lifesavers in their communities.

Leap Confronting Conflict is a national charity that aims to reduce youth conflict through the delivery of interactive training for young people and professionals, focusing on prevention, reducing public violence and supporting young people in the criminal justice system. This grant supports Leap to widen and deepen its impact, clarify their purpose, and expand reach and influence through professional and digital training.