Grants database

The Helen Hamlyn Trust is an independent grant-making trust focusing on the initiation of medium and long-term projects linked to the shared interests of Lady Hamlyn and her late husband Lord Hamlyn. The Trust’s core ethos is to develop innovative projects, which aim to effect lasting change, improve quality of life and create opportunity for the benefit of the public. The Trust’s grant-making is in the fields of medicine, arts and culture, education and welfare, healthy ageing, international humanitarian affairs and heritage and conservation in India.

Charity Tax Group will commission an economic research project to inform the debate around charity taxation and reliefs in the context of Brexit. It is important that the sector can demonstrate rigorous economic analysis outlining the value of existing VAT reliefs and the potential benefit of new or expanded reliefs.

This grant will contribute to the feasibility phase of the Cambridgeshire Culture Card. This programme intends to provide children and young people with a mechanism to access cultural opportunities, track their participation and monitor outcomes.

Creative Health Next Steps describes the programme of activity for the APPG on Arts, Health and Wellbeing during 2018. The APPG aims to catalyse, support, monitor and evaluate progress on the ten recommendations set out in the Creative Health report, which was published in 2017 and has a particular emphasis on influencing the health sector.

Think tank, Runnymede Trust, seeks to inform public and policy debates on race equality, migration and integration. This grant will fund a brief policy-focused review on integration, supporting PHF’s wider immigration and integration work.

Just for Kids Law delivers holistic, client-led support to children and young people through innovative, community-based legal representation, advocacy and opportunities programme. The organisation drives systemic change through strategic litigation and policy reform. This grant supported the creation of three new films that demonstrate how the law can be used as a tool for social justice. The series reflects on lessons from a legal case concerning young people whose immigration status prevented access to student loans.

Afghan Association Paiwand helps refugees, asylum seekers and people who migrate to the UK to settle and thrive in their new home. This grant will provide the organisation with core funding to support their work.

Women for Refugee Women will work in partnership with Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) Manchester to deliver a programme to build the capacity of refugee women in London, Greater Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and Coventry to tell their own stories. The project aims to empower refugee women to take a leading role in campaigns to address the issue of destitution, engage with new audiences through public events and influence the media, increasing support for changes to asylum policy and practice.

IMiX works to strengthen the strategic communications capacity of the migration, refugee and integration sectors. This grant will enable IMiX to provide expert advice, respond rapidly to key issues in the media, improve horizon scanning, foster collaboration and build alliances beyond the sector.

The Good Faith Partnership is a social consultancy that works with senior leaders across all sectors to discover and design innovative solutions to society’s most difficult problems. This grant will fund a secondment from Good Faith Partnership into the office of the Mayor of Bristol to support the development of a city-wide strategy for migration and integration.

Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST) works to create a more responsive, resilient and digitally-enabled social sector, supporting non-profits to embed digital, research and design-led approaches and working with sector leaders, funders and government. This programme will see CAST partner with the Cardinal Hume Centre to develop a digital service that provides scalable and transparent immigration advice.

Youth Focus: North East is a regional youth charity, providing support to the youth sector across the North East, and working directly with young people. This grant will support the organisation to explore options for working differently to provide robust regional infrastructure and support investment in youth services in the North East.