Grants database
305 results
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Capacity building and resilience for system changeMigrant Action
Migrant Action is an advocacy and rights organisation providing information, guidance, advocacy support and direct practical assistance to vulnerable people who have migrated. This grant provides core funding to enhance Migrant Action’s capacity to provide emergency and recovery support to vulnerable migrants living precariously as well as to increase the capacity for grassroots mobilisation and campaigning against hostile environment policy.
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Amplifying and empowering migrant voices within the Black activist communityKIN
KIN aims to bring Black activists and organisers together from across the UK to collaborate, strategise and support each other. This grant will support KIN’s work on empowering and amplifying the voices of Black migrants within the UK Black community. KIN will build relationships, facilitate dialogue and platform leaders with lived experience to build better community cohesion and enhance the support for migration system reform within and beyond the black community.
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Creating an LGBTQI+ movement for asylum and immigration reformUKLGIG
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.
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Empowering communities to challenge media hate
Stop Funding Hate
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.
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Sustainable funding strategy for Immigration advice in London
London Funders
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.
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Reframing destitution
IMIX
Migration Fund £60,000 East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK 2021IMIX 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.
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Improving immigration advice for London children, young people and families
Coram Children’s Legal Centre
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.
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Increasing organisational sustainability and strategic influence
Action Foundation
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.
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Working Together: An Early Intervention Project with Young Migrants
South London Refugee Association
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.
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Young Migrants Matter
Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PAFRAS)
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.
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Policy and influencing work with migrant young people
Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU)
Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) exists to advise, support, represent and campaign with people subject to immigration control. Through this grant GMIAU will use a range of approaches to policy and communications to show how Hostile Environment policies affect children, young people and their families in the North West, and propose solutions to injustices caused by immigration problems at local authority level and regionally to inform national policy change.
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EU citizens’ rights: policy and advocacy in the next phase
the3million
The3million is the largest campaign organisation for EU citizens in the UK, formed after the 2016 EU referendum to protect the rights of people who have made the UK their home. Through this grant the3million will monitor, influence and hold to account the UK’s implementation of the citizens’ rights parts of the Withdrawal Agreement through policy development, working with partners, and undertaking advocacy and legal action where appropriate.