Grants database
305 results
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Explore and Test: Birmingham & Black Country: Migration and integration coordination projectBarrow Cadbury Trust
Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent, charitable foundation committed to bringing about socially just change. This project will test a new coordination and communications model to promote a positive integration agenda in Birmingham and the Black Country, and to support the effective settlement of people who have migrated to the UK. The project aims to bring together local evidence and experience to influence policy.
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Explore and Test: Young People and the Effects of BrexitThe Mix
Migration Fund £10,000 East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, UK-wide, UK 2018The Mix is the UK’s leading digital charity providing holistic multi-channel support for young people’s well-being using digital and mobile channels. This grant will support The Mix to explore and develop an understanding of the issues, opinions and awareness of children and young people around the effects of Brexit on EU citizens living the UK.
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More and Better: Empowering refugee women to participate in campaigning against destitutionWomen for Refugee Women
Migration Fund £150,000 London, Multi-region, North West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK 2018Women 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.
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More and Better: IMiX migration communications hub and a regional communications fund
Global Dialogue
Migration Fund £150,000 East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK 2018IMiX 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.
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Explore and Test: Good Faith Partnership
Good Faith Partnership
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.
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Explore and Test: Scaling Access to Immigration Advice
Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST)
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.
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Explore and Test: Boosting the role of experts by experience in Detention Forum
Refugee Council
Migration Fund £40,000 East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK 2018The Detention Forum is a network of organisations that aims to challenge the UK’s use of immigration and detention which affects undocumented people who migrate and their communities. This grant will allow Detention Forum to deepen collaborations with expert-by-experience groups so that their work shapes the way the organisation operates and its strategy.
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Explore and Test: Comic for Kids in Need of Defense UK
Positive Negatives
This grant will support education charity, Why Comics?, to develop a bespoke comic addressing issues faced by young people without permanent status, in collaboration with Central England Law Centre project Kids in Need of Defense UK. This initiative will explore and test whether comics can help to raise awareness around legal status and legal aid and to build trust with young people and families so that they are better able to access available support.
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Explore and Test: Media Movers: Building a network of young migrant media activists
On Road Media
Media Movers is a pilot programme to test On Road Media’s “interaction” method to improve coverage of media relating to young people who migrate. The programme will identify and introduce activists with lived experience directly to journalists. On Road will also design a bespoke media and self-care training course for the network of young activists.
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Explore and Test: Unlocking migrant parents skills to support culturally inclusive schools
Bristol Early Years Training Consortium
This programme aims to promote intercultural understanding and to strengthen integration by deepening connections between parents from families who have recently migrated and their local communities. Parents will be supported to volunteer in local Children’s Centres and primary schools, gaining crucial skills for employment and community action as the organisations gain additional capacity to support outreach activities, learning and governance processes that represent and reflect the community.
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More and Better: European Economic Area citizens pooled fund
New Philanthropy Capital
New Philanthropy Capital will run a pooled fund, which will make grants to civil society organisations across the UK to help secure the rights of European Economic Area (EEA) nationals to remain in the UK. The grants will focus on supporting the policy capacity of civil society to advocate for EEA citizens and providing information about the process.
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More and Better: Better for everyone – organising for rights and integration
Independent Workers of Great Britain
Independent Workers of Great Britain aims to support low-paid workers who have migrated to the UK so that they are better enabled to claim their rights. The project seeks to empower them to become leaders in their workplaces and communities. It will also contribute to the development of positive narratives around migration.