Grants database

Future Yard CIC is a social enterprise with the ambition to reimagine the role of a community music venue. This grant contributes to core costs to develop Future Yard, their music venue and artist hub in Birkenhead, as a community asset that will develop and nurture cultural industries in the North West and support the local community.

East London Dance (ELD) work to inspire communities through dance, creating opportunities within dance for those least likely to receive them.This grant provides core funding to enable ELD to deliver their three main programmes of work – an artist commissioning programme, ​‘Our House’; a professional development programme for producers, ​‘Producers House’; and ​‘Creative Collective’, a paid advisory board formed of creatives aged 18–35 that will inform ELD’s strategic development and artistic programme.

Beyond Face is a theatre company working with local global majority artists and young people to help them to build their own creative work and sense of community. This grant supports the growth and development of Beyond Face’s Regional Voices programme, which aims to connect with local people who currently have little to no engagement or experience with the theatre industry, investigating how people who don’t work in the arts sector can engage with arts as a creative outlet.

ATLAS Arts organises collective art projects across the North West coast of Scotland. They work with artists and local residents through a programme of screenings, residencies and workshops. This grant will support the delivery of the School of Plural Futures (SoPF), a three-year youth-led creative learning programme where young people create a peer-led community to talk about housing, social history, culture, belonging, climate justice, Gaelic and Scottish colonial history in a safe and supported way. Working with a lead artist, the group will explore issues through creative activities including book making, film screenings, film making, print making, writing and poetry.

The Refugee and Migrant Policy (RAMP) Project helps political leaders to think more deeply and to collaborate more widely on migration, asylum and integration issues to improve the quality and quantity of political debate and subsequent policy outcomes. This grant supports RAMP’s core work, including their role as Secretary of the APPG on Migration to develop shared recommendations for action.

Southwark Law Centre provides specialist legal advice for people who cannot afford to pay for services in the areas of discrimination, employment, housing, planning, welfare rights, and immigration and asylum law. This grant will enable Southwark Law Centre to support individuals to access the Windrush Compensation Scheme through coordination of a coalition of civil society organisations including community centres, universities, law firms and law centres.

South London Refugee Association (SLRA) works alongside refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants, supporting them to achieve settled lives and positive futures. With this grant, SLRA will increase the impact of their local community organising work, using their community leadership programme as a springboard to build confidence and solidarity. They will also recruit a community engagement manager who will lead on developing cross sector collaboration and learning and strengthen the leadership team’s capacity and capabilities.

Social Workers Without Borders (SWWB) purpose is to promote the best interests and voices of those impacted by immigration and asylum law to decision makers through independent social work practice. This grant will support recruitment and retention of two staff roles – a Head of Direct Work and an experienced social worker with lived experience of the migration system.

Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PAFRAS) work with people who have migrated to Leeds and the surrounding areas, providing advice, support and emergency provision. This grant will enable them to continue their Early Action casework, supporting young people who have migrated with holistic support and access to quality legal help. PAFRAS will also continue working alongside Leeds Local Authority, sharing knowledge and offering complex casework to young migrants at risk of destitution; supporting the local authority with appropriate adults for age assessments.

Polish Migrants Organise for Change (POMOC) aims to improve the lives of Polish women living in the UK. This funding will go towards community organising training and mentorship to POMOC’s expanding organising team, to ensure they are well equipped and supported to deliver an ambitious and robust campaign ahead of the UK’s next General Election.

People’s Economy support communities facing economic injustice to participate in and lead the growing movement for economic systems change. This grant will enable them to work with people with lived experience of the immigration system to co-design and implement a programme of community economics education.

The Migration Museum explores how the movement of people to and from Britain across the ages has made us who we are – as individuals and as a nation. From their current base in Lewisham, they stage exhibitions and events and deliver an education programme for primary, secondary, university and adult learners. They also convene a knowledge-sharing Migration Network of museums and galleries across the UK. This grant will enable Migration Museum to employ a new Development Manager to support the organisation as it works towards developing a permanent museum.