Grants database

People’s Economy (PE) work with communities in the UK facing economic injustice to reimagine, rebalance, and transform the economy. This grant will support PE to facilitate a mixed group of new economy organisations (NEOs) and grassroots changemakers (GCs) through an action inquiry that will develop shared knowledge and practice around how they can effectively and equitably collaborate on economic systems change work.

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 supports CPIE, in partnership with Climate-KIC, to co-create a ​“funders group” for foundations, philanthropists and Governments across the world who want to use a Human Learning Systems framing to change the power dynamics of funding.

VOYAGE (Voice of Youth and Genuine Empowerment) aims to empower marginalised Black young people aged 14–25 years and provide them with the self-awareness and motivation to transform themselves and their communities. This grant supports VOYAGE to strengthen its long-established Young Leaders programme and expand the pathways to previously inaccessible mentoring and employment opportunities with a growing number of corporate partners. It will also enable recruitment of a Head of Programmes to develop new accredited Young Leaders initiatives and increase capacity for the team.

The Baca Charity work with 16–19-year-old asylum seekers, some of whom have been victims of trafficking, who are separated from their families. They provide specialist supported accommodation and a range of holistic development training to help young people live to their full potential. This grant will enable Baca to improve the outcomes for the young people in their care by building on their existing model of support and strengthening their team. 

Include Youth work with young people with experience of care, from communities with high levels of socio-economic deprivation, or whose rights are not being met. This grant provides core funding to enable them to grow and develop their policy, participation work and communications.

Greater Manchester Youth Network (GMYN) works to engage young people experiencing disadvantage across Greater Manchester in social action, volunteering and leadership. They deliver a range of development programmes and drop-in activities to help young people aged 13–25 transition to adulthood feeling skilled, supported and positive. This grant will help GMYN advance their youth voice and leadership work both internally and across Greater Manchester. This will develop a strategic framework for engaging disadvantaged young people, expanding opportunities for them to influence key decisions and lead impactful initiatives.

Resources for Autism support autistic children and adults, and their families, across London and the West Midlands. This grant provides core funding for their work with autistic young people and young adults around specific transition points (secondary school, public examinations, finishing compulsory education, accessing work) in the West Midlands. Their work includes social and support groups, volunteer-led befriending and professionally-led community support, and training for external organisations to improve understanding and acceptance of autism by wider society.

Every Future Foundation (EFF) empowers London’s youth through anti-racism education, leadership training, and advocacy for racial equity and justice. This grant supports EFF to increase delivery of its successful whole school Anti-Racism Initiative across London. Their comprehensive initiative offers schools access to workshops, teacher training, and youth activism academies. Funding will also enable EFF to develop more comprehensive e‑learning modules, scale their impact, and empower a new generation of leaders to advocate for a racially just society. 

Deaf World is a youth-led charity working with deaf and hard of hearing young people (DHHYP) from inner city areas, providing activities which enhance their skills, confidence, and networks. Deaf World support many young people with language barriers resulting from the challenges of being deaf and from English not being their first language. This grant will contribute to the development of a Community Hub to support building the resilience of the DHHYP community.

Safe Passage International campaign for and support child refugees to access legal routes to safety. They support unaccompanied child refugees all over Europe with an established presence in London, France and Greece. This grant will enable them to have greater flexibility to identify and respond to conflict directly, and build a bolder and more sustainable organisation which practices anti-racism, collaborating closely with the refugee sector to bring about change.

Regularise is a migrant-founded and undocumented-led grassroots campaign group and collective that seeks to improve the quality of life of undocumented migrants living in the UK. This grant supports Regularise’s core work to improve the quality of life of undocumented migrants living in the UK, as well as supporting their long-term goal of achieving global freedom of movement.

Common Knowledge is a not-for-profit worker cooperative of technologists, designers, researchers and facilitators with the goal of enabling radical change through technology. They work in collaboration with grassroots organisers and communities around the world, using digital skills to multiply their impact and capacity. This grant provides core funding for Common Knowledge to support their work developing digital infrastructure for the migrant justice movement.