Grants database

Maryhill Integration Network (MIN) is a community development organisation working alongside migrants, people seeking asylum and refugees in Glasgow to create solidarity and respect. With this grant, MIN will enhance their ​‘Human Rights and Citizenship’ work strand to help newly dispersed groups to navigate the asylum system, acting as a bridge between communities and decision-makers at local and Scottish levels. They will build on their local connections to progress positive narratives on asylum and refugee issues in Scotland and in the UK and develop peer-support volunteer roles to strengthen confidence, support and solidarity among those who are going through the immigration system.

Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) ensures access to justice for people who have been trafficked, tortured or are survivors of conflict and persecution. This grant supports GMIAU to strengthen their influencing work and develop their communications tools, leverage local political power, and challenge the hostile environment at its core by holding central government to account through policy and parliamentary work.

Black Europeans aims to challenge systemic racism within European Union and UK institutions and representatives, which affect non-white EU citizens post-Brexit. This grant is for core funding to resource their CEO and project assistant, provide contribution to people with lived experience working with them, and cover additional project and organisational costs.

Crossborder Forum (CBF) is a forum for organisations and activists working on migration issues on the UK-FR-BE border to come together, share expertise, and work towards shared advocacy across borders. CBF delivers its work via forum meetings, learning events, research, relationship building with decision-makers and lived experience grassroots groups in all countries, joint statements, and public actions. This is a unique initiative that seeks to increase transnational collaboration on migrants’ rights to tackle harmful narratives, practice, policies, and legislation. This grant will support Crossborder Forum to sustain itself through the next stage of its development.

Centrala exists to achieve inclusion and wellbeing for Central and Eastern European (CEE) migrant communities in England. This grant will support them to continue developing their own model of community organising through the CEEus! Network, building the capacity of local people with lived experience of the immigration system to advocate for themselves, strengthening the voice and influence of CEE migrants on local, regional and national policy.

Asylum Matters works in partnership locally and nationally to improve the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum through social and political change. They bring together and support a broad network of groups and organisations across England and Wales, to work collaboratively to mobilise, coordinate and increase the impact of advocacy and campaigns to secure improvements to asylum policy and practice. This grant contributes to core costs, allowing Asylum Matters to grow their campaigning reach while ensuring their organisation remains strong and resilient.

UK BME Anti-Slavery Network (BASNET) is a member network charities and community interest companies led by and working in diaspora and racialised communities to address modern slavery and human trafficking across the UK. This grant will support BASNET to: build members’ research capabilities and capacity; influence policy and practice; continue forming lasting strategic partnerships to diversify the modern slavery space increasing inclusivity and access to more research opportunities; counter the harmful ​‘illegal migrants’ narrative; provide a dedicated space for members to utilise self-advocacy; and provide extra mental wellbeing to support BASNET members. The funding will also contribute towards AFRUCA’s broader emotional counselling support for staff, as BASNET’s host organisation.

Positive Youth Foundation aims to improve the life chances of young people facing challenging circumstances. This grant provides core funding to support development of their outcomes and impact development work, extend their ​‘practice into policy’ approach; explore new approaches to income generation including community-based fundraising and growth of charged services; and work to strengthen social media messaging to highlight the impact of Positive Youth Foundation’s work.

Mermaids works with and on behalf of transgender and gender variant children and young people in England, Scotland and Wales. It provides support to young people and their families, offers training and advice for professionals, and campaigns to reduce stigma and raise awareness of the issues facing young people experiencing gender dysphoria. This grant will enable Mermaids to develop their Youth Advisory Panel, ensuring that the voices and needs of young people are central to their work, and expand their Mermaids’ Advocacy Network Group Online, which is a youth advocacy programme designed to provide supportive, upskilling experiences to young trans people.

Just Like Us empower LGBT+ young people to lead change and champion equality. This grant will enable them to expand their Ambassador Programme, supporting the professional and personal development of 400 LGBT+ young people aged 18–25 whilst also engaging in meaningful social action by delivering school talks championing LGBT+ equality.

Youth Initiatives (YI) aims to awaken hope, inspire initiative, and mobilise youth to make a vital contribution to their community and to a shared future in Northern Ireland. This grant provides core funding for YI to partner with Diverse Youths Northern Ireland to deliver equitable practice and appropriately meet the needs of young people from diverse backgrounds. As anti-racist organisations they will support young people by addressing both individual incidences of racism and racial inequities in wider Northern Ireland society.

Spectrum Gaming is a UK-wide online community for autistic young people aged 8 to 18 years old. This grant will enable Spectrum Gaming to increase staff capacity to widen the impact the service is having, through continued advocacy work, representing autistic young people at a strategic level, and making links with more community and health organisations to ensure the service reaches those who most need it. Funding for three new posts will allow Spectrum Gaming to grow to meet demand in the community and from new members, to extend services when members reach 18 and critically free up time for leadership to drive forward more advocacy work.