Grants database

Black Cultural Archives is the home of Black British History. They use their mission to collect, preserve and celebrate the histories of people of African and Caribbean descent in the UK and to inspire and give strength to individuals, communities and society. This grant will support an ambitious programme to catalogue material relating to the development of the Runnymede Trust, and smaller collections focusing on migration. It will also contribute towards the development of a new role focused on collecting histories of underrepresented groups and developing a public programme to share these collections with community groups.

Public Interest News Foundation (PINF) works in partnership with colleagues in the UK and around the world to understand the unique contribution that independent news providers make to society. They use this research to design and deliver programmes that build the capacity of independent news providers and improve public understanding of their work. This grant supports a new model of local media that speaks to, for and with communities across Northern Ireland. Building on a pilot project in Newry, PINF will work with local communities to shape and support their vision for local media that is both economically and socially sustainable.

Enact Equality are a non-profit organisation working to advance racial justice and equality in the UK. This grant supports their work fostering race equality and anti-racist education, increasing and enhancing arts access and participation, improving migration policy and supporting Windrush communities, and empowering young people, especially those who are marginalised, or whose voices are often erased or ignored.

Civic Square is a Birmingham based organisation with a bold approach to visioning, building and investing in civic infrastructure for neighbourhoods of the future. They build on Impact Hub Birmingham and deliver programmes to reimagine the Public Square, host a Neighbourhood Economics Lab and nurture a creative and participatory ecosystem. This grant provides core support for Civic Square’s second phase of development.

The Decelerator will support civil society organisations to design closures, mergers, CEO transitions, programming ends, and all sorts of endings as part of the everyday life of organisations. New Constellations is hosting this work in its initial testing phase. The intention is to show funders and partners how better endings can make a world of difference.

The Social Change Agency works to support people and organisations focused on social impact. Through the Social Change Nest, they help new grassroots movements grow by providing essential start-up support to unconstituted and people-powered networks. This grant will support them to examine possibilities for better outcomes for people on benefits around payment for involvement. It will also allow them to build out a community of practice and improve the action of payment for involvement going forward.

Social Justice Collective (SJC) are a women and non-binary people of colour collective of organisational change professionals, bringing together their values, expertise, and experiences to build social justice. This grant will fund SJS to pilot an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Practitioner Circle to build and accelerate sector-wide capacity for EDI and social justice. This will be achieved by providing a programme of learning, expert support, resource, action learning, and collective strategizing for people doing EDI work across civil society.

ShareAction exists to make investment a force for good. Their vision is of an investment system that truly serves savers and communities, and protects our environment for the long term. This grant will allow ShareAction to host a guest lecture from Professor Sir Oliver Hart, Nobel Laureate for Economics, on the social responsibilities of financial institutions in the modern economy.