Grants database

Duckie devises arts projects and creative events for audience-specific groups united by an identity, subculture, problem or situation. Through this grant Duckie will refine and evaluate a programme designed specifically for young queer, transgender and intersex people of colour from working class backgrounds in London to develop confidence, creativity and a sense of belonging.

Cap-a-Pie is a theatre company that inspires thinking and learning, bringing people together in a democratic creative process. Through this grant the theatre will create and deliver Cracking Cholera, a theatre-based cross-curricular learning programme, for eight classes of Year 6 pupils at primary schools in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, supported by a programme of continuing professional development for teachers.

Bold Tendencies, based in a multi-storey carpark in Peckham, deliver a summer public programme on-site between May and September each year. Focusing on its free engagement work with children, as part of is ​‘Education Community and Play’ offer, Bold Tendencies will explore and refining ways to widen their reach locally, including new recruitment methods and establishing a comprehensive evaluation framework to evidence impact.

UnLtd supports social entrepreneurs with bold solution to today’s challenges to realise their potential. This programme aims to place leaders with lived experience at the heart of social change, giving them the power to deliver their own innovations, govern UnLtd’s mission, values and strategy and influence change in the social sector.

It’s Not Your Birthday But celebrates the power of connecting with others through letters, words and visual arts. This grant will support the organisation to establish new partnerships and to support the development of an initiative that champions the handwritten word as a means of connecting people and communities.

Institute for Voluntary Action is an independent charity that works closely with people and organisations striving for social change. This grant will support the organisation to enhance and improve support and funding practices for the use of tech by small voluntary organisations.

This grant will support the Association of Chairs to develop and deliver core training and webinars tailored to the needs of Chairs of social purpose and not-for-profit organisations.

Just for Kids Law works with and for young people to ensure their legal rights are respected and promoted, and their voices heard and valued. The grant will support Just for Kids Law to commission a case study to tell the story of how their Let Us Learn project led by young people who migrated to the UK became an independent charity, We Belong, and to share learning from this process.

HOPE not Hate use research, education and public engagement to challenge mistrust and racism, and help build communities that are inclusive, celebrate shared identities that are resilient to hate. This grant supports the production and dissemination of ​‘Fear & HOPE 5’, a comprehensive survey and analysis of attitudes of modern Britain, and to provide briefings to policy makers, politicians and civil servants in the migration and refugee sector.

Refugee Action works with refugees and asylum seekers to build new lives in the UK. This grant will support the organisation to expand the reach and impact of an immigration advice project that supports individuals and organisations to secure and maintain accreditation with the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC).

Central England Law Centre provides free specialist legal advice to those most in need and use legal processes to fight social exclusion. This grant will support the development and growth of Kids in Need of Defense UK, which provides advice and represented to children without secure immigration status.

The Social Change Agency aims to build people powered movements to create positive social change. This grant will support the agency to create a movement championed and led by young people that aims to double the number of young trustees under the age of 26 on charity boards in five years.