Grants database

Asylum Matters works in partnership locally and nationally to improve the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum through social and political change. By mobilising and coordinating local, regional and national advocacy work, Asylum Matters aims to increase the impact of campaigns to secure improvements to asylum and immigration policy and practice. This grant will support the work of Asylum Matters’ team of expert staff based in locations across England and Wales.

Camden Community Law Centre’s solicitors, caseworkers, and volunteers provide and deliver free and independent legal advice, assistance and representation in housing, welfare benefits, asylum, immigration, and employment law matters. This grant will provide core funding to support operational costs of the Public Interest Law Centre based at Camden Community Law Centre.

People & Planet is the largest student network in the UK campaigning for social and environmental justice. Through this grant, the organisation will explore and test whether a youth-led divestment campaign is an effective strategy to remove the social licence of companies running the UK’s immigration detention facilities.

HEC works with schools to promote a global perspective on equality, justice and sustainability in a multicultural and interdependent world. This grant will support HEC to set up a Migration and Integration course to incorporate into and align with the Department for International Development’s and British Council’s Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning programme.

Foxglove works to address human rights abuses driven by use of mass-data. This grant will support the organisation to research and use strategic litigation and public communication to raise awareness, shift debate and influence government and corporate policies regarding the use and acquisition of algorithmic decision systems by public bodies in the migration context.

EdAid partners with educators to drive student enrolment, increase retention, and diversify revenue, while lowering costs for students. Through this grant EdAid will explore and test the feasibility of using loans delivered through an online platform to support citizenship and limited leave application fees for children and young people.

Amnesty International’s Human Rights Consortium Scotland will explore and test how new collaborations across Scotland’s migration sector can secure rights for people who have migrated to the nation, through advocacy and by influencing the government’s development of an enhanced human rights framework.

My Life My Say aims to 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. This grant will support My Life My Say to deliver on and offline activities to drive voter registration ahead of the November 2019 general election.

Ditch the Label supports young people who have been negatively affected by bullying and prejudice. Their vision is for young people to be more knowledgeable, resilient and supported to thrive. Funding will support the organisation to reposition their brand and offer to focus on ​‘youth empowerment’ rather than ​‘anti-bullying’.

Abianda is a social enterprise that works with young women affected by gangs, and provides training for the professionals who work with them. This grant will support Abianda to grow their commercial work and provide paid employment opportunities for former service users.

The Social Change Agency aims to provide new funding and support models for a new breed of community networks and activists. Building on work funded through a grant through the Ideas and Pioneers Fund, the agency aims to support new grassroots movements to grow through a new incubation and acceleration service Nest.

The Opportunity Trust is a partnership between PHF and Blagrave Trust to pilot directly supporting up to 30 young change makers for 18 months through two cohorts. The pilot will provide basic income and project costs for campaigns or social enterprise ideas that the young people have conceived of, with the support and engagement of host ​‘agent’ charities.