Grants database

My Life My Say (MLMS) is a youth-led, non-partisan charity that aims to create an age of political engagement that will deliver greater social inclusion and equality allowing the space for dialogue across generations and communities. With this grant, MLMS will empower young people to participate in democracy by creating spaces for dialogue across communities and generations, and by providing young and socially excluded citizens with the tools to lead change within society.

Allsorts Youth Project supports children and young people under 26 who are lesbian, gay bisexual or transgender or unsure of their sexual orientation and/​or gender identity. It aims to extend training, consultancy and partnership work with Brighton and Hove local authority, and work in East and West Sussex schools, colleges and community organisations to ensure the provision of LGBT youth inclusive and safe services. This grant supports Allsorts to expand their programme to under-served communities, further develop their existing programmes and refine their asset-based approach.

MYTime supports young carers aged 5 to 18 by providing retreats and programmes to improve educational attainment and affect a more equitable transition to adulthood. This grant will support MYTime to invest in their work with schools and employers to ensure young carers have the recognition and support they require to thrive personally, academically and professionally.

Just Like Us supports young LGBT+ people to lead change and champion equality. This grant will support the Chief Executive Officer and wider organisation as they commence a new five-year strategic plan, aiming to increase the organisation’s reach to three-quarters of UK schools by 2025.

Conscious Youth works with young people to foster active citizenship and community cohesion through creative arts, social action, youth groups, fundraising, culture-sharing and personal development workshops in schools and community spaces. This grant supports the employment of a business administrator, freeing up senior management to develop their skills and focus on strategic development.

To empower young women to become changemakers in rural communities in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh through career and health camps and leadership programmes.

Take works across Somerset, providing opportunities for all ages and abilities to experience, participate and work within the arts. Through this grant, Take Art will explore the potential for greater crossover between participatory and professional performance activities in pre-school settings, working in communities experiencing disadvantage and low access to the arts in Somerset, Surrey and Derby. The programme will deliver a rich creative learning programme for under-fives, artists and early years practitioners and seek to embed increased access to quality arts provision for this age group.

Based in Edinburgh, Arika is a political arts organisation concerned with supporting connections between artistic production and social change. Through this grant Arika will continue to deepen community agency and participation across their work, including in the planning and delivery of their flagship programme of contemporary arts events, Episodes, and ongoing development of access and evaluation approaches.

Youth Initiatives specialises in long term, relationship based, youth empowerment work in areas of high social need in Northern Ireland. This grant will support the organisation to develop and implement a new youth practitioner network, create platforms to amplify the voices of young people and clarify staff leadership progression and roles.

Peace First is dedicated to helping young people around the world to become powerful peacemakers. This grant will support Peace First’s Youth Investment Fund. Over the next two years, the fund aims to create 500 youth led changemaking projects, distribute 100 mini grants, provide comprehensive support to youth led projects, scale eight projects through accelerators and deliver storytelling and an evaluation of the UK based work.

South London Refugee Association (SLRA) is a front line community organisation providing specialist advice and support to refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants who are at risk or in crisis because of past trauma or restrictions related to their current immigration status. SLRA wants to further develop its partnerships with Merton and Southwark, to support work with care leavers who have insecure immigration status.

Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PAFRAS) works with asylum seekers, refugees and local communities in Leeds and the surrounding areas. This grant will support PAFRAS to deliver a programme to influence the systems in Yorkshire for supporting care leavers with insecure immigration status.