Grants database

Imagineer Productions is a registered charity and part of The Godiva Awakes Trust. Imagineer make live theatre and outdoor performances, education programmes, special commissions and touring work, bringing together creatives, engineers, architects, educationalists, special effects artists and designers. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Hibiscus Initiatives (Hibiscus) is a voluntary sector organisation which works to support marginalised foreign national, Black, minoritized and refugee women in prison, in the community, in court, and in immigration removal centres. They aim to empower women in dealing with multiple complex needs, and addressing disadvantage linked to language and cultural barriers. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Forced Entertainment is an experimental theatre company based in Sheffield which tours productions to audiences across the UK and around the world. They work with young people in Sheffield and other cities help them develop creative skills, thinking and performances. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

The Charity Tax Group (CTG) represents over 700 charity members of all sizes and remits. CTG represents their members’ views to Government on tax issues affecting charities alongside policy monitoring, consultation and lobbying. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

CharityComms is the membership network for communications professionals working in UK charities. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Black Funding Network (BFN) is a community of individuals and institutions who come together to support Black-founded and led non-profit organisations. They support organisations working on solutions for social mobility, poverty alleviation, racial equity, education and youth services, community development, arts and cultural advancement, history and heritage, and social enterprise. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Phosphoros Theatre makes political theatre performed by refugee and asylum-seeking actors. This grant provides core funding to support Phosphoros in the next phase of their development working with refugees and asylum seekers to create and perform socially engaged professional theatre, alongside youth participation and training. This includes embedding leadership by people with experience of forced migration across all areas of the company, further deepening their co-created approach and progression routes, and forging new strategic partnerships.

Brighton People’s Theatre (BPT) aims to provide theatre for all through workshops, performances and research. This grant will support BPT’s strategic development by enabling the theatre to expand their weekly provision of activities across Brighton, increase internal capacity and take more of a leadership role in its local cultural ecology.

Project 17 works to reduce destitution among families with no access to mainstream welfare because of their immigration status. This project will expand and develop Project 17’s policy and campaigns work, led by people with lived experience of no recourse to public funds. Working in partnership with Praxis Community Projects, Project 17 will recruit a new role to develop this work.

Privacy International aims to protect people’s privacy and human rights from abuses of governments and companies using invasive surveillance technologies and data-driven systems. Working in partnership with the migration sector, Privacy International will work towards protecting the digital rights of people who migrate to the UK, exposing, scrutinising and challenging abuses in the immigration enforcement system.

Praxis Community Projects is an East London charity working with people who have migrated and are negatively affected by UK immigration policy. Praxis will draw on their expertise of working with non-immigration accredited and grassroots organisations to build their knowledge and capacity to better identify people with immigration issues, and improve their ability to respond and make better referrals to appropriate immigration providers by developing infrastructure that supports collaboration.

NACCOM is the UK-wide ​‘No Accommodation Network’ which seeks to prevent destitution among people who have migrated to the UK by increasing accommodation provision, and by fostering systemic change. This grant will provide core support to NACCOM to deliver their strategic vision across key areas including: members’ sustainability, experience-led support, and positive policy changes.