Grants database

Islington Giving supports projects helping people living in poverty in Islington by raising funds and making grants to groups across three main strands: Investing in Young People; Supporting Families; and Reaching Isolated People. Operating on the principle that everyone can give, whether with their time, expertise, networks or money, Islington Giving brings people who live and work in Islington together to support their local community.

Islington Bangladesh Association (IBA) aims to engage with members of the community who are most at risk of social exclusion in learning and networking activities, so they can regain confidence, raise health awareness and improve health inequality, acquire new skills, broaden their horizons and access the support services they might need to pursue personal development opportunities. It provides a space for families, women, young people, and pensioners facing poverty and other forms of hardship to come together, access services and navigate statutory support provided by local authorities, NHS, welfare benefits, etc.

Global Generation is an educational charity, which works together with local children and young people, businesses, residents and families in Camden, Islington and Southwark to create healthy, integrated and environmentally responsible communities. They use land-based activities and the metaphors of ecological and cosmic processes to support building community between each other and the natural world. They primarily work with local young people, businesses and families in King’s Cross as well as going on camping residentials.

Copenhagen Youth Project (CYP) is a unique youth project working in partnership with young people in Islington to create and sustain a positive youth culture that inspires children and young people to plan, initiate and lead their own projects. CYP runs a youth centre on Copenhagen Street where young people can attend youth club, football sessions, access employability advice and mentoring and seek wellbeing support.

The Space to Come is a project by artist-convener Gaylene Gould that creates interactive experiences for people to explore a deeper relationship to themselves, each other and the world about them. The Space To Come experiences are participatory and collaborative. They blend artforms, conversation, reflection, play and ritual to test new ways of fostering a more compassionately connected world. The Black Mary Project will revive Black Mary’s Hole, a fabled 17th Century healing well, on the site of Calthorpe Community Gardens in Kings Cross co-creating, with the community, an imaginative healing sanctuary for London.

The London Legal Support Trust raises funds for free legal advice services in London and the South East. They support free legal advice centres through the provision of grant funding, supporting infrastructure of the sector, and helping agencies reduce costs and save money via pro bono or discounted schemes. This grant will allow them to commission small-scale research, develop advice workforce strategy, and evaluate programmes funded under this programme to share learning. This work will be done in collaboration with Propel learning partner IVAR to ensure the learning from this work is embedded into the overall Propel programme.

The Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) is an independent charity that works closely with people and organisations striving for social change. This grant will contribute towards IVAR’s core costs – in particular, the administration, organisation and facilitation of the spring convenings; their Community of Practice; and the production and publication of briefings, webinars and other learning resources.

Ten Years Time (TYT) advises high-net-worth individuals to think about philanthropy differently, bringing them closer to the communities they wish to support and supporting the distribution of funds. This grant will contribute to core staffing costs which will help to develop their membership offer and expand their fiscal hosting work.

Nick of Time Productions is led by director, producer and founder Nicolas Kent. This grant supports the production of a second verbatim play about the Grenfell Inquiry, edited by Richard Norton-Taylor and Nicolas Kent, performing at Playground Theatre, Tabernacle Theatre and Marylebone Theatre throughout February and March 2023.

The Bytes Project works with vulnerable young people in Northern Ireland, using youth work and technology to help transform their lives. This grant will fund work in collaboration with Youth Action to examine the capacity and capability of the voluntary youth work sector.

Actors Touring Company (ATC) produces international, contemporary theatre that travels, creating shows that activate and entertain, asking questions of the world around us. This grant will enable ATC to conduct an evaluation that evidences the impact of Black Out performances of ​‘Tambo & Bones’ and measure the success of their aim to create a liberating, safe space for Black audiences to view the play together in one night.

Common Wealth make experimental, multi-disciplinary theatre with, by and for people new to the arts that is rooted in their socialist politics, working class backgrounds, and an ambition to make change. Their Breakthrough grant in 2018 enabled them to appoint a Collaboration Coordinator in each city, supported the company’s producing budgets, digital capacity and creative R&D with artists emerging through Common Wealth’s projects and programmes. This grant will support core costs for Common Wealth to continue to grow the company in South Wales and navigate the end of their Breakthrough Fund grant and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.