Grants database

Camden Giving works with businesses to overcome local inequality. They run participatory grant-making, enabling local residents to give time, skills or money to inform services in their community. This grant supports the organisation’s Future Change Makers Fund, a participatory grant-making programme through which 16–25-year-olds make decisions on which youth services the organisation funds. Over the next 24 months, Camden Giving will increase its grant spend, develop new youth-led approaches to reporting, integrate a racial justice focus into the programme, and improve its evaluation.

Body and Soul supports children, young people, and families whose lives have been impacted by childhood adversity and trauma. This grant will go towards core support and supports Body and Soul to respond to increased demand for therapeutic support for young people affected by the current mental health crisis, with a specific focus on racial trauma.

YoungMinds works to improve the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people. It provides advice and guidance for young people, a parents and carers helpline, support and training for professionals, and research and policy work. The grant will enable YoungMinds to reach and engage more young people experiencing disadvantage, inequality and injustice, which are key contributors to mental health problems. They will further develop their youth centred approach, expanding the way YoungMinds connects with young people to generate ideas, share stories and inform the design of their support and services.

Friends Provident Foundation is an independent charity that makes grants and uses its endowment towards a fair and sustainable economic system that serves society. They lead the Foundation Practice Rating, developed to increase improvements in diversity, transparency and accountability. This grant contributes towards the Foundation Practice Rating for three years. 

The Institute for Voluntary Action Research is an independent charity that works closely with people and organisations striving for social change. This grant supports the development of an action research process to understand the community’s needs in relation to supporting open and trusting practices and what ​‘trust-based learning’ looks like in practice; community of practice sessions; annual convening; webinars; and research into trust-based reporting.

Here for Good is a strategic legal charity that aims to plug the gaps in advice provision where there is no legal aid available, such as the EU Settlement Scheme and the Ukraine visa schemes. This grant will support Here for Good to undertake legal research to respond to the Ministry of Justice review of civil legal aid.

The Centre for Cultural Value is a national research centre based at the University of Leeds. They work alongside cultural practitioners and organisations, academics, funders and policymakers to make relevant research more accessible, support the cultural sector to develop skills in research and evaluation, convene discussions around questions of cultural value, shape policy development and offer funding for research partnerships. This grant will support The Centre for Cultural Value to evaluate its impact, identify areas for development and design a new business model for the next five years. 

United Learning Trust are a group of public and private schools which aim to provide excellent education to children and young people across the country. This grant will support a series of conferences for Sixth Form students on climate change, an initiative started by Sir Tim Brighouse. 

My Life My Say (MLMS) is a youth-led, non-partisan movement on a mission to change the culture of democracy and get every single young person voting. This grant supports Next Gen – the UK’s leading youth summit. Funding will enable MLMS to facilitate young people’s active participation in the conference, fostering a platform for the next generation to play an instrumental role in shaping the future of Britain.

Funders for Race Equality Alliance is a group of funding organisations, networks and individuals working together to achieve race equality in the UK. This grant will provide support and resource for Equally Ours, acting as the Secretariat of the Alliance.

The Advocacy Academy is an activist youth movement of young leaders fighting for justice and equality. They serve as the political home for grassroots youth organising and are the catalyst for collective action. The Advocacy Academy are moving premises to establish ​‘The Liberation Centre’, which is a cornerstone for their strategic ambitions to host, train and enable youth organising practice. This grant will assist The Advocacy Academy to navigate the complex financial agreements and fees at a critical point in the execution of this development.

Reaching Higher delivers a peripatetic mentoring and leadership programme which challenges young people to be leaders in their own lives. It seeks to bridge the gap for young people between home, school life and the community by embedding and growing its partnerships to create a wider community which shares similar values. This investment will focus on strengthening Reaching Higher’s Senior Leadership Team in order to develop their strategic partnerships. They will also continue to embed trauma-informed practice, grow their marketing and communications infrastructure to reflect and support their growth, and develop a formal academic research partnership with the University of Greenwich. This partnership will include upskilling Reaching Higher’s internal monitoring and evaluation capacity.