Grants database

Youth Access is a representative body that champions young people’s right to access local, high quality, evidence-informed advice, counselling and support services. This grant will go towards improving the charity’s Rights Advocates Training Programme and linking young people with those in power in an effort to increase the reach and impact of the Our Minds, Our Future mental health campaign.

The Warren of Hull offers free support, guidance, training, music, education and counselling services to young people in Hull. This grant will fund the development of The Thing, the youth-led empowerment and governance structure at the heart of The Warren. Funding will go towards the salary of an Empowerment Support Worker and a Digital Media Campaign Facilitator as well as digital media and marketing resources, film-making facilities, workshops, publishing, and a contribution to mental health support.

Just for Kids Law works with and for children and young people to fight for the wider reform needed to secure their legal rights and entitlements. This grant will fund a Youth Engagement Officer to bring together young people who have been excluded from school to organise and undertake social action that will campaign around the educational, emotional and psychological impact of school exclusion.

Beatfreeks equips, enables and empowers young people to create positive change in their lives and communities. This grant contributes to the salaries of staff who will develop REACT, a novel approach to working with young people, which helps them to mobilise quickly and launch art activism responses to issues in their lives and their communities. It will support young people to run events and campaigns, offer a small grants pot to young people for their campaigns, and work with them to amplify the impact and reach of their work.

The Advocacy Academy runs a six-month Social Justice Fellowship for young people who are passionate about making a difference in the world. This grant will support the organisation to hire a Programme Director to focus on developing its model and deepening impact.

Northern Ireland Youth Forum is a youth-led charity that represents the voices of young people to government and other decision makers. This grant will go towards the development of a Leadership Studio for young activists in central Belfast. The grant will also fund the employment of a ​‘Relentless Youth Worker’ who will deliver programmes to young people experiencing disadvantage, enabling them to become catalysts for change in their own communities and nationally.

The Advocacy Academy is a charity based in London which supports marginalised young people to understand and tackle the social issues that directly affect them. This grant will support the opening of the first youth organising centre in the UK. From meals and community meetings to round-the-clock youth programmes, this centre will be a unique and inclusive space where young people from across South London can come together.

Meadow Well Connected is a community hub based in North Shields, Tyneside that aims to provide a safe, welcoming place where local residents can meet new people, make new friends and learn new skills to help their community thrive. This grant will support the North East Collaboration Working Group in the design, development and delivery of a conference to promote cross sector collaboration across the North East.

Principle Consulting is a public affairs, policy, and campaigns agency that works to support charities advocating for effective policy change. Through this grant, Principle Consulting will support charities that work with young migrant communities to coordinate their work in lobbying for policy changes, such as access to finance, changes to application and university fees and other matters in relation to immigration.

IVAR is an independent charity that works closely with people and organisations striving for social change. This grant will support an exploratory study on how tech can be used to help make services relevant, accessible and efficient for small, voluntary organisations.

This grant will support the refurbishment of the Paul Hamlyn Hall over Summer 2018.

Involve is a public participation charity that aims to put people at the heart of decision-making. This grant will support Involve to establish a Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland to help break the stalemate on contested policy issues and provide a model for addressing similar situations in future.