Grants database

Greater Manchester Youth Network (GMYN) works to engage young people experiencing disadvantage across Greater Manchester in social action, volunteering and leadership. They deliver a range of development programmes and drop-in activities to help young people aged 13–25 transition to adulthood feeling skilled, supported and positive. This grant will help GMYN advance their youth voice and leadership work both internally and across Greater Manchester. This will develop a strategic framework for engaging disadvantaged young people, expanding opportunities for them to influence key decisions and lead impactful initiatives.

Resources for Autism support autistic children and adults, and their families, across London and the West Midlands. This grant provides core funding for their work with autistic young people and young adults around specific transition points (secondary school, public examinations, finishing compulsory education, accessing work) in the West Midlands. Their work includes social and support groups, volunteer-led befriending and professionally-led community support, and training for external organisations to improve understanding and acceptance of autism by wider society.

Every Future Foundation (EFF) empowers London’s youth through anti-racism education, leadership training, and advocacy for racial equity and justice. This grant supports EFF to increase delivery of its successful whole school Anti-Racism Initiative across London. Their comprehensive initiative offers schools access to workshops, teacher training, and youth activism academies. Funding will also enable EFF to develop more comprehensive e‑learning modules, scale their impact, and empower a new generation of leaders to advocate for a racially just society. 

Deaf World is a youth-led charity working with deaf and hard of hearing young people (DHHYP) from inner city areas, providing activities which enhance their skills, confidence, and networks. Deaf World support many young people with language barriers resulting from the challenges of being deaf and from English not being their first language. This grant will contribute to the development of a Community Hub to support building the resilience of the DHHYP community.

Safe Passage International campaign for and support child refugees to access legal routes to safety. They support unaccompanied child refugees all over Europe with an established presence in London, France and Greece. This grant will enable them to have greater flexibility to identify and respond to conflict directly, and build a bolder and more sustainable organisation which practices anti-racism, collaborating closely with the refugee sector to bring about change.

Regularise is a migrant-founded and undocumented-led grassroots campaign group and collective that seeks to improve the quality of life of undocumented migrants living in the UK. This grant supports Regularise’s core work to improve the quality of life of undocumented migrants living in the UK, as well as supporting their long-term goal of achieving global freedom of movement.

Common Knowledge is a not-for-profit worker cooperative of technologists, designers, researchers and facilitators with the goal of enabling radical change through technology. They work in collaboration with grassroots organisers and communities around the world, using digital skills to multiply their impact and capacity. This grant provides core funding for Common Knowledge to support their work developing digital infrastructure for the migrant justice movement.

The Civic Power Fund is a new fund for grassroots community organising, building the power of excluded communities to take action on the issues that matter to them. This grant will support their work with organisations led by refugees, migrants, asylum seekers and diaspora communities, so that these communities are better able to demand their existing rights; increase their political influence and win policy change that improves life for refugees, migrants and asylum seekers; and build deep bonds of solidarity with their neighbours, creating more welcoming communities and challenging the narratives that fuel punitive policy making.

Young at Art provides arts opportunities for children and young people in Northern Ireland. It is also home to the flagship Belfast Children’s Festival. This grant supports Young at Art to work with six Belfast primary schools. Using their established visual arts and drama-based approach, they will build children’s resilience and support their mental health and wellbeing, as well as their engagement with learning. They also plan to enable teachers to gain skills and confidence to use arts-based practice in the classroom.

Travelling Light is a storytelling company for children and young people based in Bristol. They create theatre for and with young people that inspires their thinking, engages their emotions and fires their imaginations. This grant supports Light Up Language, which will explore in more depth how drama-based approaches can support targeted groups of pupils experiencing barriers to learning and who have been identified as needing additional oracy support including those with SEND and who are learning English as an additional language.

The Line is an ambitious public art project in East London, connecting Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and The O2 in Greenwich. This grant supports Spaces to Explore – a two-year, co-created Artist-in-residence programme where three Newham primary schools are partnering with The Line, utilising its outdoor sculpture exhibition to inspire pupils to explore art and nature in the classroom and onsite along the sculpture trail. Co-created, process-driven artistic sessions connect pupils and teachers with critical thinking and new perspectives whilst providing tangible curriculum links.

Motionhouse creates and tours inspiring dance-circus productions across the UK and globally, whilst delivering a vibrant creative learning programme. This grant supports Motionhouse to work with two primary schools and two SEND schools (primary and secondary) in Warwickshire to develop the Wider World Project. They aim to use physical storytelling and dance/​movement to support children and young people to explore ideas of citizenship, belonging and difference, enabling them to find common ground, build creative skills, confidence and self-esteem, teamwork, communication skills, and self-expression.