Grants database

This project will encourage people to come together and inspire each other to design and lead programmes that improve lives in their local community. This funding will be used to prototype a new civic innovation model; testing, refining and building upon the work of existing centres of civic participation and innovation.

NACCOM seeks to prevent migrant destitution by increasing accommodation provision, and by fostering systemic change. Funding will support the organisation as it develops into a strategic national charity promoting an end to migrant destitution.

Peace First is a non-profit organisation dedicated to helping young people around the world to become peacemakers by investing in their ideas, providing them with tools and skills and sharing their stories. Inspired by conversations with UK organizations, Peace First is exploring the implementation of a UK Challenge, in which young people will be asked to identify and solve an injustice. The process will determine the best pathways for a Peace First Challenge that could impact thousands of young people across the UK.

Safer London works to prevent violence, sexual exploitation and vulnerability amongst young people across London. The grant will contribute to the salaries of the Director of Operations, Director of Development and the Chief Executive. It will increase the capacity of the senior leadership team, allowing Safer London to grow unrestricted income, capitalise on available opportunities and build a solid base for future growth and widening of impact.

National Working Group aims to stop the trafficking and sexual exploitation of children and young people, and to improve support for those affected. It will grow its Youth Advisory Board from a centralised UK board to three regional boards. This will lead to enhanced youth advocacy within the child sexual exploitation sector and inform the organisation’s research, policy and campaigns. Learning will be disseminated across its network.

Mermaids works with and on behalf of transgender and gender variant children and young people in England, Scotland and Wales. It plans to recruit a Volunteer and Events Manager to expand its volunteer team, develop a peer mentoring scheme, extend delivery and significantly enhance its external profile and influence.

Operating from a former nightclub in Dunfermline, Heart and Sound offers a range of creative and youth work activities. Working in partnership with young people and local organisations, Heart and Sound will develop a new youth work hub in the city. The hub will house multiple charities offering sporting and creative opportunities, and give Heart and Sound the space required to meet the increasing demand for its services.

Khulisa works nationwide to support young people to break the cycle of exclusion and crime and transform their lives. A grant will contribute to the salaries of the Development Director, a new Monitoring and Evaluation Manager and an additional facilitator. This grant will enable the organisation to both scale and deepen impact for young people, to strengthen its evidence base and increase its influence on policy and practice in the education and the criminal justice sectors.

Connect: Resound is a model of music education that combines online delivery of specialist musical instrument tuition and live performances with a programme of Continuing Professional Development and Learning for teachers. NYMAZ wants to scale up and embed this approach to enable other music and arts organisations to create their own bespoke online music education offers that respond to local needs.

Tate Exchange is an annual programme that invites the public to test ideas and explore new perspectives, highlighting the value of art to society. This grant supports a one year evaluation activity designed to build on the experience and learning gained from researching and evaluating year one of Tate Exchange (TEX). Year two will focus specifically on gathering evidence of participants’ experiences and the changes the TEX programme brings about for them.

This grant will support London Emergencies Trust to temporarily increase its administrative and casework capacity to deal with the scale and complexity of work involved in providing financial assistance to the injured and bereaved at Grenfell.

The Muslim Youthwork Foundation (MYWF) was established to inform work with Muslim young people and brings together a range of experience and expertise to influence the development of Muslim youth work approaches. This grant will support a series of events, conversations and develop resources and other activities to mark the twentieth anniversary of the report, Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All.