Grants database

The Parent House is a charity that supports parents in Islington. They aim to reduce poverty and social inequality for families by building parents’ confidence and skills through provision of courses, training and wellbeing support. This grant supports the Parent House to deliver one-on-one support, consultations and peer mentoring to parents in Islington in order to strengthen core skills, improve wellbeing and provide opportunities to enter education and work.

Migrateful is an award-winning charity which supports refugees and migrants on their journey to employment and independence and promotes integration. They offer cookery classes where migrant chefs share their cuisine, culture and stories with the general public.

Help on Your Doorstep is a charity that aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people in Islington, especially those who are vulnerable and isolated. They work with residents to find solutions to the issues which make life difficult, strengthen communities and enable people to improve their life chances. This grant supports Help on Your Doorstep to identify people who are at risk and provide early support to prevent the need for later crisis intervention.

The Peel is a charity that aims to build a connected community in Clerkenwell, London. They run activities for adults, children and young people, and mental health awareness projects. This grant supports The Peel as they build their Clerkenwell Youth Development Programme providing support for children in educational transitional stages through a youth club, life-skills programme, cultural enrichment, and career development for older children.

C4WS Homeless Project supports people experiencing homelessness to access housing, employment and to rebuild their lives. This grant will enable them to provide critical support through their successful ​“rotating shelter model” helping guests find positive housing move-ons.

The Cultural Learning Alliance is a collective voice working to ensure that all children and young people have meaningful access to culture. Arts and culture bring pleasure, participation, self-expression and essential skills into children’s lives. By speaking with one voice and working together, we can realise our ambition for all children and young people to have an entitlement to quality cultural learning. The Alliance brings together the diverse parts of the cultural sector to work together – including museums, film, libraries, heritage, dance, literature, new media arts, theatre, visual arts and music – with the education and youth sector.

Coram’s Fields and Harmsworth Memorial Playground is a children’s charity that serves as a safe place for all children to come and play. This grant will support Coram’s Fields in providing an under-fives drop-in service helping new parents to build social connections and enabling children to learn and develop through play.

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.