Grants database
30 results
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ChaosCare: Community Social Justice platform and creative research enquiryChaosCare
Within activist, organiser and care-giver bodies there is a lack of resourcing and support available for recovery, rest and processing in order to organise for sustainable change. ChaosCare (CC) aims to address this, by providing accessible tools and restorative spaces for people of colour to encourage mental and physical wellbeing through hope, creativity and joy. This grant funds a 12-month development period of conversation, research and gatherings to inform the first iteration of ChaosCare.
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Role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistibleCreative Resistance programme
This grant will fund the design and delivery of a programme that aims to provide a regular intergenerational space for people experiencing issues or injustice in their lives to try out forms of creative resistance such as samba drumming, theatre of the oppressed, drag, subvertising, and other types of ‘artivism’. By engaging in community arts, participants can join in accessible collective learning and sharing, empowering them to take community action using the creative skills they develop. The programme will foster connections among individuals facing similar struggles, helping mobilise more people to action, building organising capacity, generating support for local campaigns, and empowering communities to creatively tackle their issues.
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HOUSE OF DREAD – Anti-disciplinary heritage studioHOUSE OF DREAD
HOUSE OF DREAD is an anti-disciplinary heritage studio dedicated to preserving histories across the African and Caribbean diaspora while creating a network of community training through creative peer support. This grant will facilitate a period of research across the UK that will consult with and connect people with relevant lived experiences and expertise, experiment with methods of engagement, and map diverse stories. This project will specifically explore the question, ‘what does a community led heritage research programme look like?’.
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Sudanese Community Researchers
Dark Matter Education
Sudanese communities in Britain have a broad and deep understanding about the British Empire in Sudan, and hold invaluable knowledge about Sudanese resilience and resistance. This funding will support the development of a community programme for Sudanese young people to train, practice and get paid as Community Researchers; preparing to take on a series of restitution engagements at a number of major UK heritage and research institutions.
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Disabled Student Empowerment Programme.
Disabled Students UK
Ideas and Pioneers Fund £19,200 East of England, East Midlands, London, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK 2025Disabled Students UK is dedicated to building accessibility within the higher education sector. Currently, the organisation delivers training directly to universities and Student Unions to help them better support disabled students. This grant will enable Disabled Students UK to support and empower disabled student representatives within universities, who are often under-supported or neglected, and equip Student Unions with the tools to effectively advocate for disabled students and influence universities on their behalf. They aim to target systemic change by placing disabled students’ experiences at the core while helping disabled students to have a better all-round university experience that allows them to experience the community and society aspects of university that their peers get to enjoy.
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Alternatives to calling the police for non-violent criminalised activities
Copwatch Network UK
Copwatch Network seek to reduce the reliance on policing through increasing knowledge and working to create community-based alternatives to keep each other safe. Copwatch Network organises with members across local groups for national vigils or protests; community screenings; creative workshops; court and police station support and more. This grant will support the delivery of a programme of 15 events across South London, alongside providing support to the community, including supporting people experiencing or at risk of criminalisation (e.g. ‘know your rights training’ for young people living on a housing estate).
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Catalysing connections across climate, migration and new economy systems
Climate Migration Collaborative
Ideas and Pioneers Fund £20,000 East of England, East Midlands, London, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK 2025The Climate Migration Collaborative are working towards a society where climate-linked migration is understood, where communities welcome people on the move, and where models for adapting to a warmer planet lead to more sustainable, equitable policy and practice for all. This grant supports the co-creation and testing of a cross-sectoral framework as a route to building understanding around the complex intersections of climate change and migration. Climate Migration Collaborative will also explore the idea of a network that brings together partners from the climate, migration and new economy sectors, bridging the gaps between them and brokering new insights into how their collective contributions make up a multi-sectoral response to evolving migration patterns, underpinned by climate justice and migrant justice.
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Trans+ Lives: a memorial project on the deaths trans+ people
Trans+ Lives
Ideas and Pioneers Fund £20,000 East of England, East Midlands, London, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, UK 2025Trans+ Lives aims to create an ongoing community-led memorial capturing the stories of trans and non-binary people dying preventable deaths. The project will centre around the remembrance of individual stories for the community audience, as well as themes and connected issues for a political audience. It will create a detailed national picture, allowing for analysis, research, and improved public understanding of the scale of the problem and the issues that are causing preventable deaths, such as failing physical and mental health care systems for trans+ people.
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Fibromyalgia Life
Fibromyalgia Life
Ideas and Pioneers Fund £20,000 East of England, East Midlands, London, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, UK 2025Fibromyalgia Life is an informal network and community of peer support by and for disabled, queer and trans, neurodivergent, Black people and People of Colour, who are experiencing symptoms of fibromyalgia (regardless of clinical diagnosis). This grant will enable existing 1:1 connections to be developed into an integrated network of peer support. Using a community organising model, the collective would build capacity and undertake research by listening to wider networks of people experiencing fibromyalgia symptoms, identify a small number of areas to explore, and then launch any necessary actions, for example, knowledge sharing, advocacy, campaigns.
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Communications Messaging Chatbot
Progressive AI & Quantum Network
Ideas and Pioneers Fund £20,000 East of England, East Midlands, London, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, UK 2025This grant will fund the development of an advanced AI-powered messaging assistant utilising Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques. The tool will be trained on an extensive library of strategic messaging guides, enabling social change organisations of all sizes to efficiently align their communications with proven strategies and redirect efforts towards other critical aspects of their campaigns.
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Self Advocacy
Black Heritage Support Service
Black Heritage Support Service (BHSS) helps vulnerable people overcome barriers in life to access the public services that they need. This grant enables BHSS to share their advocacy model, allowing them to reduce their reliance on funding for caseworkers by instead supporting their community to self-advocate. Self-advocacy empowers individuals to take control of their situations, express their needs, preferences, and rights effectively, promoting a sense of agency.
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PoC beekeeping
BeePoC
BeePoC supports People of Colour to overcome the barriers to participating in beekeeping, pollinator ecology and engaging with the wider environmental sector. They use beekeeping to explore cultural heritage, creative practice, and engage with community, while also protecting ecosystems and supporting the wellbeing of the collective. This grant will allow BeePoc to explore what an autonomous sustainable infrastructure would look like, using their early experiences and networks whilst developing a collective cultural ecology approach to beekeeping.