Grants database

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.

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.