Grants database

Strongly youth-led, MAC UK works to transform mental health service delivery for young people facing exclusion who have offended or are at risk of offending. Through this grant, MAC UKaims to support other agencies and organisations to adopt their evidence based approach, to build capacity and to influence the national narrative and policy context surrounding their work.

The project will pilot a creative music programme for young people experiencing disadvantage in Manchester. This will be delivered alongside a programme of practitioner training for the musical workforce, in partnership with Theatre in Prisons and Probation.

Bow Arts will expand their schools consortium model, which addresses the need for creative school improvement by combining needs-led school interventions and continuous professional development for teachers. This funding will help to create five new consortia of ten schools each over three years. Bow Arts will also commission support to refine their internal evaluation systems and deliver a funded programme for the artist educator workforce.

Social Finance partners with the government, the social sector and the financial community to find better ways of tackling social problems in the UK and beyond. The Impact Incubator builds collaborations to develop systems-changing models to entrenched social problems. The programme aims to develop five new models, support the implementation and scaling of up to eight models and to share lessons learned.

The Social Change Agency works to support people and organisations focused on social impact. This grant went towards the Losing Control conference which explored the practical realities of building a social movement fit for change.

Understanding Social Change will convene a new community of interest aimed at building knowledge and tools that can support campaign effectiveness; build greater legitimacy for campaigning and help develop the right competencies and cultures that can help campaigners thrive.

Bristol Refugee Rights will convene local sessions to explore thinking and discussion around the issues facing young people who are subject to immigration control with the aim of progressing thinking on this issue at the city level.

The Refugee and Migrant Centre assists refugees and migrants through crisis and disadvantage, by removing barriers to their integration and enabling them to become equal citizens. This grant will fund work to research the gaps and opportunities relating to migration and integration infrastructure in the West Midlands.

The Families Together Initiative aims to develop a collaborative and co-ordinated response to the increasingly restrictive policies and practice relating to refugee and migrant family reunion. It will increase provision of high quality advice and support and through advocacy and lobbying, work towards improving family reunion rules and procedures, ensuring they are fairer, less complex, safer and more affordable.

GASP Motor Project is a charity based in Surrey which delivers hands-on learning and alternative education programmes in mechanics and engineering for young people who are not in education, employment or training. A grant will contribute to the salaries of the CEO and the Programme Coordinator. This will enable GASP to develop and professionalise its programme, invest in impact measurement and build new partnerships with employers in preparation for scaling its work further.

Oxfordshire Youth (OY) is a charity providing infrastructure support to youth clubs and working directly with young people across Oxfordshire. A grant will contribute to the salaries of the Training Manager and Training and Participation Coordinator. This will facilitate the roll out of an income generating strand of OY’s Young Leaders programme, with the long-term aim of becoming self-sustaining by 2020.

YouthAction NI will develop and pilot a ​‘Critical Youth Research Hub’ which will provide a space for youth workers, researchers and activists to present and exchange research and recommend policy and practice solutions. Trained as ​‘peer researchers’ young people will co-design the strategy and outcomes framework. This programme aims to strengthen youth sector collaboration across the region, improve outcomes and increase youth engagement.