Grants database

Daniel Mirfani has used his experience in engineering, computer science, and change management to help him invent ​“Chill-beater”, a device that can be retro-fitted to radiators to increase their efficiency. Chill-beater has the potential to significantly reduce heating bills, thus addressing fuel poverty and the use of fossil fuel. Funding will support field testing of the device with council tenants in Oxfordshire.

Daniel Baker is an artist, writer and education professional. Through this grant he aims to design and pilot an alternative arts qualification for adults with mental health challenges, chronic illness and/​or learning difficulties.

This grant will support the scoping and development of a project to raise awareness of career opportunities in health innovation among school leavers in Wales.

This grant will support Charlotte Fischer and Martha Jephcott to build a new women’s movement to fight sexism based on a two-pronged strategy that includes a paid service-delivery model and political organising to affect social change.

African Prisons Project provides legal advice, training, and education to those living and working in prison. It aims to empower those most in need of justice to access it for themselves. This programme will provide inmates and prison staff in HMP Brixton with an introduction to legal concepts through a series of twelve prison-based legal awareness workshops designed and led by affiliated law professionals.

Redthread aims to empower young people to thrive as they navigate the challenging transition to adulthood by integrating trauma-informed youth work into the health sector. This grant will support organisational development and growth plans.

The Key supports young people aged 11–25 to further their skills, develop their confidence and unlock their potential. This grant will support organisational development and scale up plans.

The National Youth Agency (NYA) is the national body for youth work aiming to lead the sector through learning. This grant will enable NYA to re-build their work to support professional youth work across England, focusing on quality standards, regional youth work units and influencing government.

Through this grant Migrant Voice will build on their core work, linking high impact stories and people with lived experience to campaigns on emerging migration issues, through their networks in London, Birmingham and Glasgow and partnerships across the immigration sector.

COMPAS is a multi-disciplinary migration research centre based at the University of Oxford. This grant will support COMPAS to develop a new approach to integration in ten cities across the UK, by working alongside a taskforce of partners to develop area plans, a strategic narrative of inclusion and share learning with each other.

African Rainbow Family is a not-for-profit organisation that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender intersexual and queer people of African heritage and from wider Black, Asian Minority Ethnic groups. Manchester Migrant Solidarity is a self-help group set up as a convergence space for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, offering practical and social mutual support, empowerment and solidarity. This grant will provide both organisations with core support to develop their campaigning work.

Catch22 works at every stage of the social welfare cycle to build resilience and aspiration in people and communities. This grant will fund the pilot of a project that supports people in employability programmes to take the next step in their careers through building relationships with Livery members.