Grants database

Global Dialogue promotes human rights and social change through innovative and collaborative philanthropy. From initiating exploratory conversations on emerging issues to managing large collaborative grant-making programmes, the organisation helps funders, activists and influencers to work together to bring about real change. This grant will allow them to strengthen organisational capacity and in doing so continue to support collaborative practice exchange, connecting funders and organisations.

CFG is a membership organisation, inspiring a financially confident, dynamic and trustworthy charity sector. At a challenging time for charity funding, CFG acts as a voice for the charity sector, advocating for a better operating environment for the not-for-profit sector. Through championing best practice, nurturing leadership and influencing policy makers, CFG will use the grant through the Backbone Fund to continue to support the financial health of the voluntary sector, working with over 1,400 charities across the UK.

BYC empowers young people aged 25 and under to influence and inform the decisions that affect their lives. BYC supports young people to get involved in their communities and democracy locally, nationally and internationally. Their flagship programmes include UK Youth Parliament, Young Mayor Network, NHS Youth Forum, Youth Select Committee and UK Young Ambassadors. This Backbone Fund grant will support core services and posts, providing stability in a challenging funding landscape for youth voice.

British Future is an independent non-partisan think tank, seeking to involve people in an open conversation that addresses hopes and fears about integration, immigration and identity. Through their communications, strategic advice and activities, British Future seeks to engage those who are anxious about cultural identity and economic opportunity in the UK, as well as those who already feel confident in society, to identify workable solutions. This grant through the Backbone Fund marks a timely, vital contribution to valuable work to strengthen voice in the migration and integration field.

Catching Words is a creative literacy project which addresses children’s long-term underachivement in Keystages 1 and 2. The project brings professional poets, writers, storytellers and Story Builders from Discover Story Centre together with children and teachers, for weekly sessions aimed at developing language, vocabulary, oracy and creativity. The programme supports teachers to build experience, skills and confidence, and to co-deliver sessions.

20 Stories High is a theatre company and charity based in the Toxteth area of Liverpool. It aims to empower and improve aspirations and skills for young people, targeting the most marginalised groups. Through a four year programme of outreach, training, collaboration and evaluation, 20 Stories High will deepen its understanding of how access to and participation in the arts can impact positively on young people’s mental health.

Through this project, Liverpool Biennial will work with local schoolchildren to produce artworks for an exhibition at Bluecoat, five bench-like sculptures at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, a family programme and digital curriculum resource. Workshops, family days and talks aim to engage over 1500 young people. Hundreds of thousands of people will experience the public artworks and exhibition, inspiring families, young people and schools to engage with contemporary visual art in the long-term.

Level Up aims to build a community of feminists who can work together to end sexism in the UK. Through this grant, Level Up will offer support, training and resources for women who have experienced sexual harassment and violence.

Institute for Voluntary Action is an independent charity that works closely with people and organisations striving for social change. The UK Evaluation Roundtable (ERT) programme aims to advance evaluation and learning strategy, practice and use across UK trusts and foundations. This grant will contribute to the costs of two cycles of the UK ERT, funding research, convening, workshops, and the development of materials.

The Impact Hub Birmingham aims to build a fairer, more equal and just city. This grant will support the organisation to develop a proposal to move to a new site to scale activity and to work on their business plan.

The Happy Museum supports museum practice that places wellbeing within an environmental and future-facing frame, rethinking the role that museums can play in creating more resilient people and places. This grant will support an enquiry to identify the appetite and potential for continuing the Happy Museum initiative beyond 2020 and if so, its optimal purpose and operating principles.

Encounters Arts aims to provide spaces and processes for people to explore their relationships with themselves, each other, where they live and the wider natural world. This grant supports a pilot study to test an evaluation approach based on participants’ use of language, in the context of participatory practice and climate change.