Grants database

The UK Democracy Fund is a pooled fund set up by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust and supported by a group of committed funders. They work to build a healthy democracy – one in which everyone can participate and where political power is shared fairly. This grant supports their work strengthening civil society and championing people’s voice and agency.

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 the scoping phase for the creation of a proposed ​‘Transformation fund’, where philanthropic funding would sit alongside money from government and tech funds.

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 MLMS to refine and enhance their impact, and further develop their strategy, which continues to secure their core mission while broadening their reach and influence.

GirlDreamer educates, elevates and empowers marginalised young women of colour to become agents of change in their local communities. This grant supports GirlDreamer to solidify its infrastructure and prepare for wider impact. It will enable them to refine their leadership model, build capacity within the team, and create stronger evaluation frameworks to best highlight their impact.

The Civic Power Fund is a charitable fund that supports community organising, and helps build the infrastructure and leadership it needs to thrive. This grant supports their work in building the field of youth organising in the UK.

Shout Out UK (SOUK) delivers media and political literacy programmes and preventing and countering violent extremism training. This grant will support SOUK’s Youth Policy Development Group (YPDG), which focuses on empowering those with challenging lived experiences to effectively bridge the gap between future generations and national policy making. Through this network, SOUK will deliver high-impact training sessions which provide young people with critical thinking skills, enabling them to effectively analyse and engage with policies.

Partisan develops alternative mental health systems, builds community capacity, and promotes equitable power, knowledge, and resource sharing for racialised and marginalised groups. Partisan aims to expand and further sustain its community-driven mental health support programmes for marginalised and racialised young people. Initially focusing on Lewisham, it will scale its ​‘4 Pillars’ model, addressing the mental health and wellbeing needs particularly of Black and racially minoritised communities. Funding will enhance its infrastructure, support staff development, and strengthen partnerships with local organisations, schools, and statutory services. Additionally, Partisan will pilot its approach in new regions, co-designing culturally relevant services with young people and community stakeholders, and advocate for systemic change at local and national levels.

The Green House provides creative, trauma-informed support to children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse in Bristol and the surrounding area. This grant supports the expansion of its VOICE Change-making Programme, which empowers young survivors to lead systemic change through creative activism, policy advocacy, and co-produced service design. Funding will also strengthen a national practitioner network, embed youth-led best practice across the sector, and develop a robust evaluation model to support replication and influence national CSA policy and provision.

Corporate Watch are a research and training co-operative supporting campaigns for social justice. They receive requests from grassroots activist and community groups to carry out strategic research for their organising. This grant will support their core activities and enable them to review their outputs. Corporate Watch aim to reach a more diverse range of people, and provide them with genuinely useful materials, so are working to reduce the production of lengthy reports in favour of more succinct, accessible and printable resources.

Black Learning Achievement and Mental Health (BLAM) UK champion Black British cultural capacity and creativity, improve the health and wellbeing of peoples of African descent, provide a comprehensive and decolonised education, and support inclusion of the Black British community through advocacy and support. This grant supports BLAM UK to expand its School Exclusion Advocacy Project and Grounded Project, providing legal casework, representation, and family support to Black students facing exclusion, while increasing the reach of its Black history education.

Asylum Aid is a national organisation providing free legal advice and representation to asylum seekers, and lobbying and campaigning for an asylum system based on human rights principles. Asylum Aid provides trauma-informed legal representation to unaccompanied children and young people in the UK asylum system, many of whom are survivors of trafficking, torture, and war. This grant supports Asylum Aid to deepen youth engagement across its services and strengthen its capacity for strategic litigation.

Who Is Your Neighbour? (WIYN) operate at neighbourhood, regional and national levels to counter the impact of divisive narratives. They facilitate dialogue about immigration, race and other relevant issues and share learning and experience to inform the work of others. This grant provides core funding both for WIYN’s work across South Yorkshire and to support targeted interventions through national partners to replicate their work in communities across England.