Grants database

TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. This grant supports storytelling for positive change across three themes: the climate crisis, equity and justice, and building better futures. TEDxLondon will showcase speakers to an audience of over a thousand to increase understanding, change attitudes and inspire action. They will also convene 70–100 storytelling practitioners for a programme that explores best practices in storytelling for narrative change.

Reach Volunteering is a skills-based volunteering charity and the UK’s biggest source of trustees for the voluntary sector. This grant supports them to develop a more sustainable business model, enabling Reach Volunteering to support small grassroots charities and groups to recruit trustees and volunteers with the expertise that they need. 

LocalMotion brings together six communities and five major funding organisations to support community led action. They are reimagining how communities, funders, and systems can work together more equitably, more effectively, and more inclusively—for everyone. 

They believe that with imagination, courage and deep collaboration, lasting change that tackles the root causes of social, environmental and economic injustice is not only possible – it is already happening. Together they create spaces and networks for connection and collaboration that create powerful, lasting change in how things are done. Bringing resources and decision making into local hands, where they believe that real change happens.

LocalMotion works in six places— Torbay, Oldham, Middlesbrough, Lincoln, Enfield and Carmarthen —where communities are building on local strengths, imagining new futures and leading change that lasts. 

The five funding partners are City Bridge Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Lankelly Chase Foundation, Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales, and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Together they are building a social, economic, and environmental justice movement. By communities, for communities.

The Decelerator is a free support service for civil society organisations. They support organisations and individuals to anticipate and design closures, mergers, CEO transitions, programming ends, and all sorts of endings as just part of the everyday life of organisations and inevitable cycles of change in civil society. This grant provides core funding to support The Decelerator. 

Ten Years Time (TYT) advises high-net-worth individuals to think about philanthropy differently, bringing them closer to the communities they wish to support and supporting the distribution of funds. This grant will support core costs related to the launch and implementation of TYT Community; a membership model that will bring their core programmes – learning journeys, coaching, training, community insights – into a singular, long-term package of support to charitable trusts and foundations on their racial justice journeys.

Renaisi are a social enterprise that support individuals, social sector organisations, businesses, funders and whole systems. Their innovative work with refugees and migrants into employment is a core part of their wider mission to challenge the root causes of exclusion in the UK. This grant contributes to research into youth sector infrastructure, delivered by Renaisi in partnership with Young People’s Foundation Trust. 

London Funders is the membership network for funders and investors of London’s civil society. This grant contributes to an exercise to map the current state of funding for equity and justice infrastructure – initially in London, then scaling to cover England and Wales – to identify the gaps and opportunities, and inform discussions with funders on the strategic development of equitable funding approaches.

Disability Arts Online are an organisation led by disabled people, set up to advance disability arts and culture. They give disabled artists a platform to blog and share thoughts and images describing artistic practice, projects and finding inspiration to be creative. This grant supports their study into the effect of regional bias on disabled visual artists. Phase 1 will look at nominated artists and nominators, and Phase 2 will explore the dynamic of regional/​local policy on artists in two selected regions.

Centre for Public Impact Europe (CPIE) acts as a learning partner for governments, public servants, and the diverse network of changemakers leading the charge to reimagine government. This grant funds a learning partnership between CPIE and The Promise Scotland to explore how a Human Learning Systems approach can help enable support for young people in Scotland to help them thrive.

Amanda Parker Associates provides thought leadership in the world of art and culture. This grant enables the creation and maintenance of effective qualitative and quantitative longitudinal data insights into inclusion in cultural sector businesses with focus on mid-and senior workforce and creative business practices.

Peer Power Youth is a national charity that leads with empathy and does vital work to support young people who have experienced trauma. This grant is provided through the Youth Strategic Investment Fund, which supports the development, sustainability and impact of youth-focused organisations with a five-year investment towards core costs, plus a further package of tailored expert support.

Gendered Intelligence is a trans-led and trans-involving charity that works to increase understandings of gender diversity and improve the lives of trans people. This grant is provided through the Youth Strategic Investment Fund, which supports the development, sustainability and impact of youth-focused organisations with a five-year investment towards core costs, plus a further package of tailored expert support.