Grants database

Black Equity Organisation (BEO) is an independent, national Black civil rights organisation created to dismantle systemic racism in Britain, drive generational change and deliver better lived experiences for Black people across the country. They do this through research, advocacy, holding institutions to account, supporting policy and practice within workplaces and legal support, advice, and representation.

The Alliance for Youth Justice (AYJ) brings together 80 organisations to drive positive change in youth justice in England and Wales. Members range from large national charities and advocacy organisations to numerous smaller grassroots and community organisations. The AYJ provides a forum for members to exchange ideas, network and facilitate a community of practice. It also shapes decision-making and policy through the collective influence of its members, by carrying out research, identifying evidence of good practice, and amplifying the voices of children and young people. The alliance aims to promote widespread understanding about the underlying causes of children coming to the attention of the criminal justice system, and champion approaches that enable them to reach their full potential, with young people and the organisations supporting them at forefront of influencing change.

360Giving helps UK funders to publish their grants data in an open standardised way, and supports people to understand and use the data to improve charitable giving. This includes providing training, analysis, research and tools to help people to access and explore the data. 360Giving’s aim is for more money to go to where it is needed most to support communities and causes through a better understanding of the grant-making picture, supporting grant-making in the UK to become more informed, effective and strategic.

Freelancers Make Theatre Work (FMTW) are an inclusive, independent community for self-employed and freelance workers from all areas of theatre, opera and live performance, who make up 70% of the UK theatre workforce. This grant supports a pilot project that aims to centre the freelance voice and experience within all actions we undertake, whilst providing a financially supported structure for FMTW that creates longer-term stability and consistency, including the development of a safeguarding policy.

This grant provides core support for Artcry to expand their work funding and supporting artists to create politically responsive work with fast-turnaround resources, enabling them to make their artwork appear in the public realm in time to inspire social action and/​or political response. Funding will also support recruitment for a fundraising position to help Artcry establish itself long-term.

The Justice Together Initiative is a funder collaboration that offers funding and support to grant partners to build the power and influence of people with lived and learned experience of the immigration system and embed anti-racism strategies. Through grant-making and collaboration, they aim to connect lived experience, front-line advice and influencing strategies to create lasting change. This grant contributes to the development of a series of peer learning spaces, enabling organisations who deliver or commission legal advice around immigration to share their learning with local authorities.

The National Youth Agency transforms the lives of young people through the power of youth work. This grant supports The National Youth Agency to focus on better understanding the needs and opportunities of workers from underrepresented groups by expanding their planned workforce survey and consultation with the sector, to collect more detailed information around the workforce and its diversity.

The National Centre for Creative Health aim to advance good practice and research, inform policy and promote collaboration, helping foster the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and social care and wider systems. This grant supports them to build on the findings from their Creative Health Review and the UK Research and Innovation partnership research programme: Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities, through working with Creative Health Associates and Integrated Care Systems across England to further advocate for and embed creative health at systems level.

The Ubele Initiative (Ubele) derives its name from the Swahili word meaning ​‘The Future’. They are an African Diaspora-led intergenerational social enterprise founded in 2014, with the purpose of helping to build more sustainable communities across the UK. Ubele supports a wide range of Black and minoritised communities, community-based organisations and groups with their community assets (people and physical spaces), through social action, community enterprise development and next-generation leadership initiatives. This grant supported Ubele to bring together a varied group of Black, African diaspora leaders from across the country to participate in the 2023 Year of Return and Connections a collaborative initiative between multiple organizations which took place in Nairobi in July 2023.

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.

The Spark Arts for Children are an arts organisation helping children immerse themselves in the arts in a variety of places and spaces. They offer children opportunities to discover their skills, passions and potential – both as an audience or participants This grant supports The Spark Arts for Children to partner with eight primary schools in Leicester, putting theatre-making at the centre of children’s voice in the classroom, through a cross-curricular programme with links into PSHE learning.

Imagineer create live events, in particular theatre and outdoor performance, education programmes, special commissions and touring work. Their projects bring together creative thinkers and innovators from the arts sector with engineers, architects, educationalists, special effects artists and designers. This grant supports the Teach-Make programme, a curriculum development project for primary school teachers which places art-making at the centre of teaching and learning. This project will bring a new iteration of Teach-Make to eight primary schools in the Warwickshire boroughs of Nuneaton and Bedworth.