Grants database

Heart n Soul provides opportunities for people with learning disabilities to discover, develop and share their creative talents and power. This grant will provide core costs to underpin Heart n Soul’s model of working, deepen and extend their influence as experts in co-production, and amplify their role in leading systems change.

Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) is the only Accredited Museum in the UK celebrating women’s lives, histories and achievements with a library, archive and innovative events and learning programme. This grant supports GWL’s project to develop their commissioning and selection processes, the creation of innovative equalities focused frameworks for collecting and curating and the organisation of training for systematically excluded groups to learn about public collections.

Brighton People’s Theatre brings people in Brighton together from a wide range of backgrounds to co-create high-quality new shows. Through conversations, workshops and performances, they create change in and across the system. This grant will provide core support for Brighton People’s Theatre to deliver on their 2023–2026 business plan embedding a cyclical annual methodology that centres the community’s voices and supports them in making decisions about the kind of work they want to develop and participate in. Over the three-year programme of activity members will determine and explore themes, receive training in theatre skills and be supported by artists to develop new shows.

The CAE tackles problems of inequality faced by migrants, breaking down barriers for them, and supporting them to become economically active, thrive and contribute fully to society. This grant will support the CAE to promote the rights of migrants and protect their dignity through working with partners to raise awareness of workplace exploitation, develop routes of reporting incidences to the relevant authorities and empower migrants to know and understand their rights at work. They will provide wellbeing services to help migrants build a sense of belonging and self-worth, and give free legal advice.

Reprieve is a legal action non-governmental organisation defending marginalised people who are facing human rights abuses. This grant will support their work to secure the repatriation of British nationals detained in North East Syria, and their resettlement and reintegration in the UK. Once repatriated, Reprieve will support ex-detainees to re-build their lives by facilitating access to services and empowering them to tell their stories and advocate for systemic change.

Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) supports movements for social, racial, economic and climate justice in order to map, develop and strengthen compelling narratives that transform policy, systems and culture. This grant will provide PIRC additional funds to cover increased staff and project costs resulting from the increased cost-of-living.

The Migrants’ Rights Network (MRN) works alongside migrants in their fight for rights and justice. This grant will support MRN’s core work, including supporting the development of cross-sector alliances and campaigns across social justice issues, strengthening their analysis on intersecting forms of oppression and the migrant experience. They will facilitate events, workshops and cross-sector meetings and engage with media to support change in the language and narrative around migration.

The Meliore Foundation works with global philanthropic funding partners to support programmes which educate and encourage fact-based discourse at community, societal, commercial and policy-making levels. This grant will support their focus on migration, allowing them to establish new narratives around migrants and support UK migrant justice campaigners with strategic communications. It will also fund strategic communications support for the newly formed Investor Working Group on Migration, Climate Adaptation and Finance.

Here for Good is a strategic legal charity that aims to plug the gaps in advice provision where there is no legal aid available, such as the EU Settlement Scheme and the Ukraine visa schemes. This grant will support Here for Good to gather case studies, conduct research, and share expertise, allowing them to advocate for change and influence Home Office engagement through their legal work and strategic litigation.

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (GDWG) supports people during and after immigration detention through practical and emotional support by volunteer visitors and advocacy by the staff team. This grant will allow GDWG to build on its ​‘Walking Inquiry’ model and will enable them to collect evidence for their policy advocacy and influencing work towards ending detention. This work will include an exhibition, local walks and events, led by their Self-Advocacy Group of people with lived experience of immigration detention.

Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) provides legal advice and representation in bail matters to people detained under immigration powers. This grant will support their revocation project, which aims to secure justice for those unjustly exiled from the UK while shifting the narrative around deportation. Funding will enable BID to develop a communications strategy which will complement the work they are doing with individual clients to revoke their deportation orders and ultimately enable them to build an evidenced based campaign for fundamental reform of the deportation system, which will be created and led by those directly affected by deportation.

MYTIME supports young carers aged 5 to 18 and provides weekend breaks at their Retreat in Dorset, a Memory Making Programme and Schools Support Programme to improve educational attainment and affect a more equitable transition to adulthood. This grant will support the continuation and growth of their Level Up Programme. Through this programme, MYTIME work with schools to create supportive and inclusive educational environments where young carers can thrive.