Grants database

People & Planet is the largest student network in the UK campaigning for social and environmental justice. They mobilise students to campaign for justice from public and private institutions that act in the interests of profit over human rights and a liveable planet. This grant supports People & Planet to mobilise their network to run the Divest Borders campaign, through which students are demanding that their universities divest from companies profiting from violence against migrating people.

NACCOM is a membership organisation of around 140 charities and community groups across the UK who support people facing homelessness and destitution within the asylum and immigration system. This grant provides core funding to support NACCOM’s work improving their network’s approach to centring lived experience, wellbeing and anti-racist practice. They will also advocate for migrant housing and homelessness to be ​‘mainstreamed’ across other efforts to tackle homelessness through legislation, policy and practice. This includes joining wider calls for housing reform in the UK to prevent poor accommodation and homelessness among migrant and wider communities.

The Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID) is a national charity that supports volunteer visitors to people in immigration detention, wherever they are held. This grant contributes to core costs to enable AVID to meet their strategic priorities, which include growing the capacity of volunteer visitors, increasing collaboration and connecting with the wider movement to oppose immigration detention.

Somerset House connects creativity and the arts with wider society. This grant will support an independent evaluation study over three years. The study will assess the impact of Somerset House’s model, enable them to direct investment into their talent development programmes and maximise their impact on young people starting out in the creative sector and creative start-ups.

New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) support charities, philanthropists, funders and social enterprises maximise their social impact. This grant supports NPC to design and build open and shared data infrastructure for young people and the youth sector.

Naked Politics Ltd is an independent media and educational organisation, facilitating a society where all young people in the UK, particularly those most marginalised, can shape their local communities, the UK and beyond through civic knowledge, engagement and action. This grant supports their work to increase the democratic and civic participation of BAME young people aged 15–18. This will be achieved through the provision of in-school workshops focused on engaging young people on what democratic action is in between elections, such as people power and community organising.

IMIX is a communications hub which builds the capacity of the refugee and migration sector by working closely with organisations to build communications capacity. They deliver training on working with the press and media and provide one-to-one support for small organisations so that they can make the most of limited resources and reach a wide audience. This grant will provide funding towards strategic development. 

Heard is a national charity that aims to improve media coverage of misrepresented groups and issues, improving people’s lives and the way they are treated by society. This grant supports Heard to expand the capacity of its All About Trans programme team to strengthen sector-wide relationships and take an approach to its work more in line with the ​‘Collective Impact’ strategy it successfully uses across its other narrative change programmes. This collective impact approach will formally bring together a diverse group of stakeholders influential in supporting the trans community to bring about narrative change for trans people.

The Clore Leadership Programme was designed to develop and strengthen leadership across the cultural and creative industries. This grant supports the next stage of their World of Work project, focused on analysing learning from the project so far and reviewing outcomes.

Child Poverty Action Group work to understand what causes poverty, the impact it has on children’s lives, and how it can be prevented. This grant supports expansion and development of their Youth Ambassador Scheme in which nineteen young ambassadors develop their own projects on issues relating to child and youth poverty. The scheme provides space, time, capacity, and funding for young people to ensure their voices are being heard by decision-makers at a regional and national level.

AndFriends Productions make theatre, performance, digital and community stuff about the conversations we tend to ignore – class, fatness, queerness, access, mental health and more. This grant supports AndFriends Productions evolve anddevelop a vision for the future, building on the reputation and profile of Scottee & Friends.

Trinity Community Arts is an arts provider who use the power of creative engagement to support and empower marginalised communities. This grant helps to fund their work with St Pauls Carnival and Citizens in Power to host the UK’s first Citizens’ Assembly for culture for an entire region in the West of England in 2025.