Grants database

West End Women and Girls empowers women and girls who have been traditionally denied their rights to access existing services and effect positive change in environment. This grant will fund a peer education project to mobilise young working-class women with lived experience of gender inequality to build local campaigns, harness their collective power, change policy and legislation to create better gender equality for young women in the North East.

The Hummingbird Project provides services in Brighton and Sussex for unaccompanied young people seeking asylum or with refugee status. This grant will support the organisation to enhance support and opportunities for graduates of the Young Leaders Programme, the formation of a Youth Board and staffing resources.

Newport Mind provides support services for adults and young people who experience mental health problems. This grant will support the hiring of a Service Development Worker to work with young people to lead the #ChangeIt campaign delivering training to professionals to improve their awareness and professional practices.

The 4Front Project supports young people who have been impacted by violence to create change. This grant will provide resources for the youth-led 4Mation campaign and the 4Mation Peace Fellowship, which builds the capacity of young activists to lead campaigns.

Phoenix Education is working with Student Voice and Refugee Support Network to support young change makers to design, plan and deliver their own social action projects that will improve young people’s experience of the education sector.

Off the Record provide counselling and mental health support services to young people in Bristol. This grant will fund a full time Project Co-ordinator to develop Zazi, a youth-led change making movement for Bristol BAME young people experiencing mental health issues who want to challenge mental health stigma in their communities and deliver training to service providers.

My Life My Say is a youth-led charity that empowers young people to participate in democracy. This grant will support the continued development of the Groundbreaker Fellowship programme, which provides training sessions in mobilisation, public speaking, fundraising, media/​communications and branding to young people who want to lead change.

Leonard Cheshire is led by disabled people and supports disabled people to live, learn and work as independently as they choose. This grant will support the Future Leaders programme, which gives young disabled leaders the opportunity to develop their advocacy skills, peer-mentoring skills and become citizen reporters tackling the injustices that disabled people experience.

Comics Youth provides comics-based literacy and wellbeing projects for marginalised young people aged 8–25. This grant will support the establishment and running of a young person-led publishing house that will focus on comics and zines which address the systemic injustices faced by young people experiencing mental health concerns especially those from LGBT+ communities.

TCC uses community organising principles to bring together a variety of groups including community groups, faith groups and schools to create long-term community cohesion in North East Wales. This grant will enable TCC to increase their work with young people who experience injustice, in particular with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities; young people seeking asylum; and young people excluded from school.

The Winch is a community organisation that focuses on children and young people building strong, connected communities. This grant will fund a Youth Worker and Youth Organisers who will work with young people experiencing disadvantage as they go through expert training and accreditation, to support them to lead long-term social action addressing the root causes of youth violence.

Praxis Community Projects is an East London charity working with people who have migrated and are negatively affected by UK immigration policy. This grant will fund the employment of a Youth Organiser who will facilitate young people impacted by immigration policy to change the negative perception of young people who migrate to the UK.