Grants database

This project supports the creation of a new option towards reclaiming life for recovered persons with severe mental illness who are at a dead end.

Migrants in Culture is a migrant-led design agency that resources organisers and artists to build more creative and powerful social movements. This grant contributes to core costs to enable Migrants in Culture to increase their capacity and build a more sustainable organisation.

Diverse Youths Northern Ireland (DY) creates provision for racialised young people living in Belfast, delivering asset-based youth work support and activities. This grant supports them to deliver a series focused on Intersectional Barriers, Advocacy and Social Justice. It will also allow them to collaborate and establish partnerships with the University of Ulster, Queen’s University, and the University of Maynooth.

Staf is a membership organisation for all those working with young people leaving care including young people, practitioners and corporate parents. This grant will contribute to staffing costs for roles that support Staf’s policy and influencing work. It will also enable Staf to build organisational capacity and develop their agility and ability to respond to the voice of young people, as well as ensuring that decision makers at national and local level improve services to young people in transition from care.

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.