Grants database
305 results
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More and Better: Community Support ProjectDetention Action
Migration Fund £142,000 East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK 2017The Community Support Project will continue to work with the Home Office to enable the release from indefinite detention of young ex-offender migrants, and will provide intensive one-to-one case management to support them to reintegrate into the community. This second phase of the project will share learning from the model to engage and support NGOs, institutions and policy-makers in the UK and elsewhere in Europe to develop similar ‘alternatives’ projects, working towards reducing reliance on detention.
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More and Better: Immigration and Asylum Tribunal Reform Working GroupJUSTICE
Through this grant, JUSTICE – a law reform and human rights organisation – will establish a working group on immigration and asylum to make recommendations to government as it seeks to modernise the justice system as part of a £1bn digital reform programme. The working group will research, generate, and evaluate proposals for a complete re-think of how the immigration and asylum determination process works in the UK.
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Explore and Test: Learning English Together (LET) – ESOL for small groupsAction Foundation
Action Foundation’s initiative, Learning English Together (LET), will equip churches and other community groups to provide English language support for migrants who face barriers to accessing formal ESOL provision. Action Foundation will develop a social franchise model, providing training, support and resources for small volunteer-run groups to enable them to help migrants and refugees to learn English through practical activities facilitating integration.
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Explore and Test: Using art and culture to nurture new Muslim stories
New Horizons in British Islam
Migration Fund £45,000 East Midlands, London, Multi-region, North West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK 2017New Horizons in British Islam engages in critical discussions around Muslim identity, tradition and reform to provide a positive vision of what it means to be Muslim today. To strengthen integration so that communities can live well together, the organisation seeks to use arts and culture to cultivate different perspectives of Islam in Britain. This grant will support a part-time Art Co-ordinator to explore this idea and will fund an activities budget.
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Explore and Test: Testing digital engagement and messaging on migrants’ rights
RightsInfo
RightsInfo will test and evaluate a targeted digital media approach to public education and engagement on human rights, with a focus on migrants’ rights. Translating methods used in private sector marketing, they will test the effectiveness of a behaviour change model that is designed to shift views amongst ‘neutral but persuadable’ groups. It will be tested in two cities that voted leave and remain in the European Union referendum.
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More and Better: A National Conversation on Immigration
British Future
Select Committee (HASC) to involve the public in the debate on immigration. This project aims to ensure that a cross-section of the public contribute to HASC’s inquiry into the future direction of immigration policy through a variety of means and specifically seeks to engage young people.
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Families Together Initiative
British Red Cross
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.
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More and Batter: Welcoming Britain: positive approaches to building resilience to high migration
Institute for Public Policy Research
Migration Fund £194,000 East Midlands, East of England, Multi-region, South East, West Midlands, UK 2017The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) will carry out a community research programme aimed at gaining a deep understanding of the dynamics that drive local concerns about migration in these areas and which factors enable or block the process of integration for migrants. IPPR will work with local agencies to map key assets within the local community that can be mobilised by local policymakers, and will co-host a series of workshops with residents to develop initiatives that have local support.
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More and Better: Inclusive cities: Partnership, participation and opportunity at the local level
Centre on Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS) University of Oxford
COMPAS will work with five UK cities to achieve a step-change in their approach to migrant integration in their area. Drawing on learning from innovative approaches in US cities, the project will include assessment of the scope for subsequent roll-out nationwide and the development of an online toolkit for UK cities wishing to develop integration strategies of their own.
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Explore and Test: Sheffield Together Cohesion Hub: Valuing and Welcoming people
Voluntary Action Sheffield
Voluntary Action Sheffield supports voluntary communities and organisations in Sheffield at all stages of development. VAS aims to test whether a city-led cohesion strategy and cross-sector partnership can influence policy across a range of statutory and non-statutory agencies, helping them to incorporate a welcoming approach to migration in Sheffield, as well as evaluate the impact of their approach.
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More and Better: Ordinary People Extraordinary Lives (OPEL) Project
City of Sanctuary
OPEL will bring together two existing advocacy/campaigning projects, Still Human Still Here and Regional Asylum Activism. OPEL will be hosted by City of Sanctuary and will take forward the eight advocacy priorities identified at the Sanctuary Summit in November 2014 and endorsed by 320 organisations. The project will work at local, regional and national levels to secure concrete improvements in both policy and practice towards asylum seekers and refugees.
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Explore and Test: Northern Guardianship Programme
Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (also known as GMIAU)
GMIAU works to ensure access to justice for people living in the local community who are survivors of torture, trafficking, abuse and conflict. GMIAU will co-design an advocacy service model with unaccompanied migrant children, young people and service providers in Manchester and Sheffield. This will involve a comprehensive mapping exercise of services in these cities, primary research with young people and service providers, and a learning exchange with organisations that developed a similar model in Scotland. They will produce a report and options paper, which will be disseminated via a national conference.