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Lumos Transforms is a social enterprise which supports individuals, communities, and organisations through positive change. This grant supports a project to sustainably resource organisations working globally to safeguard rights. In the project’s first phase, Lumos will open applications to small-to-medium-sized English-speaking organisations (up to 100 staff) working in North America, United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, and the SWANA (South West Asian and North African) regions. Selected organisations will represent broad diversity in terms of geography, areas of rights focus (e.g., women; LGBTQIA+; indigenous; immigrants; workers; politically, culturally and religiously oppressed groups, etc.), and organisational strategies (policy and systems-change advocacy as well as direct community support).

Culture Commons supports creative organisations and the publicly subsidised cultural sector by bringing cutting-edge research and policy development activity together to co-design policy and influence decision making at local, regional and national levels. This grant funds scoping for phase two of an open policy development programme which will examine how the ​‘devolution revolution’ will impact on the creative, cultural and heritage sectors in different parts of the UK.

Necessity Paths – inspired by the informal, worn ​‘desire paths’ created by pedestrians taking shortcuts – represent the informal routes marginalised people use to meet their needs when the capitalist system fails them. The aim of the Necessity Path Framework is to create a practical facilitation tool that helps communities address inequality by using collective lived experiences to develop alternative economic systems that better meet collective needs. This funding will allow the testing and refinement of the framework within the communities it will serve.

Contextual Safeguarding is an approach to understanding, and responding to, young people’s experiences of significant harm beyond their families. This grant supports a three-year participatory action research (PAR) project with young people and their families to develop a sector guide for commissioning and funding services and provision that is responsive to young people’s experiences of extra-familial risk, and tackle inequalities in the child welfare sector.