Grants database

Part of the Attain Academy Partnership, the Chelmsford Teaching Schools Alliance provides continuing professional development, school-to-school support and initial teacher training across 26 primary schools, eight secondary schools and one SEND school. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

ARC Foundation is a registered UK charity working to improve standards in the refugee status determination processes. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Micro Rainbow runs safe houses for LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees and delivers a programme of life skills, employability support and social inclusion in London, Birmingham and Leeds. This grant will support Moving Together, an online dance and movement arts engagement programme with integrated pastoral support. Informed by residents’ feedback, the project actively seeks to introduce a positive, movement-based and social opportunities for residents at a challenging time.

D6: Culture in Transit are visual arts producers and policy advisors who promote the role of artists and value of the arts in the sustainable development of neighbourhoods, communities and the planet through research, commissioning, and presentation. D6 will deliver the North East’s first Studio of Sanctuary for artists who are refugees or seeking asylum in the region. D6 will launch a new cross-sector network that will support, create and embed more equitable and sustainable arts engagement practices in the North East.

Artistic Directors of the Future (ADF) aims to demystify the role of artistic directors and senior executives, and empower and celebrate Black, Asian, Middle Eastern and ethnic minority talent to challenge the status quo in theatre and the arts industry. This grant will support ADF through a period of strategic development and growth, and go towards the delivery of two new leadership initiatives: ADF Innovators and a Leadership Think Tank.

The UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group (UKLGIG) supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or intersex (LGBTQI+) people through the asylum and immigration system. This funding will enable UKLGIG to start a national campaign for reform of the asylum and immigration system that transcends the refugee and migration sector. The campaign aims to galvanise a whole new supporter base: the LGBTQI+ community by ​‘mainstreaming’ messages and campaigning on asylum and immigration into this community.

Stop Funding Hate (SFH) is a community-driven human rights campaign, based on a philosophy of open, inclusive and participatory campaigning. This grant will underpin SFH’s capacity building programme, which supports individuals and organisations to employ SFH’s innovative campaigning model via training and second tier support; enable SFH to further embed within communities and movements; grow their impact through partnerships and underpin their growing influencing function.

London Funders is the membership network for funders and investors of London’s civil society. In consultation with the Justice Together Initiative and contributing funders, London Funders will use this grant to develop and deliver a funding strategy for the long-term funding of immigration advice services in London.

IMIX works closely with organisations across the refugee and migration sector to train, support and build communications capacity. With this grant, IMIX will test and develop a new narrative frame for the public and policy debate on migrant destitution, and explore whether the process of developing this frame provides a foundation for collaborative working across policy silos via the destitution coalition. It will co-create a programme of work with people who have lived experience of destitution and the immigration system, alongside organisations with a long-standing focus on migration and destitution, mainstream poverty and homelessness.

Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) promotes and protects children’s rights worldwide and chairs the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium (RMCC). With this grant, RMCC will deliver a three-year programme to improve how children, young people and families experience immigration advice in London. RMCC aims to create a more effective network of immigration advice provision, delivering coordination and efficiencies spanning demand and supply, thus both improving the experience for users and increasing the number of people who can access immigration legal advice.

Action Foundation provides opportunities for people who have migrated to overcome exclusion and poverty by providing housing and English Language support. This funding will enable Action Foundation to develop a fully integrated data management/​CRM system, and build dedicated staffing capacity and capability to optimise the use of this new IT facility. This will help them develop robust internal data management processes and maximise their reach, effectiveness, sustainability and external influence.

YWCA Scotland (The Young Women’s Movement) is a feminist organisation which creates spaces that enable young women to lead personal, community and institutional change. The organisation aims to amplify the voices of young women in Scotland both in and outside of the digital sphere. This grant will support YWCA Scotland in giving young women a platform to tell their story and re-imaginine the futures of professional, public, and personal spheres and advocate for these to become reality for young women.