Grants database

The Pears Foundation is an independent, British family foundation rooted in Jewish values. They promote understanding of key issues through research and education programmes, particularly with young people. This grant contributes to a partnership between Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Pears Foundation in the form of a pooled Youth Club Fund.

Northern Ireland Youth Forum is a youth-led charity that represents the voices of young people to government and other decision makers. This grant will support core funding and allow the organisation to focus on fundraising, supporting staff, and leading on the adaptation to new digital and hybrid ways of working during the pandemic.

Based in Bradford, Mind The Gap (MTG) is the UK’s largest learning disability theatre company. This grant allows MTG to extend their Engage programme for an additional year following interruptions due to the pandemic. Through Engage, they will progress their partner venues beyond the need for specialist interventions in order to better include learning disabled artists, audiences and participants in their work long-term.

MAIA Creatives is a Black-led, Birmingham based, artist-led organisation, focused on supporting creative practice, community building, critical thinking and social change. This grant provides MAIA Creatives with time and capacity to undertake business planning and adaptation, and develop a revised fundraising plan for 2021/22 onwards.

Glasgow International (GI) is Scotland’s biennial festival of contemporary art. This grant offers core support to festival staff and ensures the running of the festival’s weekend performances, events and commissions as it recovers from the impacts of the pandemic.

Based in Belfast, The Duncairn delivers live music, workshops and participatory arts events. This grant will support The Duncairn in increasing their capacity to ensure continuity of a new digital content programme for the local community; better support volunteers and staff; and create stability to engage with longer term planning through the continuing Covid-19 crisis.

Doctors of the World aims to ensure that people who are living in the UK are able to access the free healthcare they need, regardless of immigration status. This grant will allow Doctors of the World to play a proactive leadership and coordination role in relation to the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccine. The objective is to ensure that the vaccine programme is equally available to all in the UK, regardless of immigration status.

C4WS Homeless Project supports people experiencing homelessness to access housing and employment and to rebuild their lives. This grant supports C4WS in running a new Covid-secure homeless shelter in Camden over the winter months.

The Baobab Foundation is a new type of foundation that will support, grow and strengthen Black and minoritized communities and community organisations who are led by Black and minoritized people. This grant will support the research and development phase for the new foundation, delivered by a small project team and overseen by their steering group over six months.

Arika is a Glasgow-based political arts organisation supporting connections between artistic production and social change. Arika will use this grant to underpin their ongoing relationships of trust and mutual development with community groups by redistributing funds to those who are not in a position to apply for such funding themselves, and who are working with people who live with increased levels of violence, stigma and destitution, including sex workers, people who have migrated, people seeking asylum and people experiencing poverty.

The Young Women’s Trust supports young women in England and Wales facing poverty due to unemployment or low paid work. Young women are at the centre of the charity’s work from leading and designing to participating. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Year Here is a postgraduate course in social innovation based in London. The course is a platform for entrepreneurs to build smart solutions to social problems and is grounded in the lived experience of those in care homes, hostels and youth services across London. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.