Grants database

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.

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.