Grants database

Positive Money is a research and campaigning organisation who lead on money and banking reform. Their vision is for a money and banking system that serves a fair, democratic, and sustainable economy. They carry out grass-roots campaigns, undertake research, lobbying and advocacy work, and lead an international reform movement. The grant will increase Positive Money’s capacity for work aimed at changing the public narrative on several core topics, and for mobilising the public to pressure decision-makers at key opportunities. It will also help their reactive work challenging damaging narratives, and help fund an expanded team.

Culture Commons support creative organisations and the publicly subsidised cultural sector by bringing cutting-edge research and policy development activity together to co-design policy and influence decision making at local, regional and national levels. This grant will support their work exploring how devolution will affect the creative and cultural life of the UK. The programme will see a steering panel and working groups brought together to propose possible policy solutions for a future UK Government to adopt.

The Alliance Publishing Trust (APT) provides the global philanthropy sector with independent opinion, expert debate and trusted insight, through events, newsletters, and quarterly print and online magazine Alliance. This grant will provide core funding to improve APT’s coverage of global philanthropy, with the aim to make their field more effective, progressive, geographically balanced and including a greater diversity of voices and perspectives.

Young Camden Foundation works to address the growing uncertainty of long-term investment in the children and young people sector in Camden and the need to build more cross-sector partnerships. Their membership of 130+ organisations working in or with communities in Camden includes community centres, sports clubs and supplementary education organisations. Members can access support, training, services and grants.

Women at the Well supports women whose lives are affected by, or at risk of being affected by prostitution. Established in 2007, the organisation has supported communities in Camden, Islington and Haringey for the last ten years. Services are provided to people who have multiple and complex needs including drug and alcohol abuse, mental health difficulties, experience of homelessness and trafficking.

New Horizon Youth Centre enable homeless and vulnerable young people to secure the futures they deserve and the independence they crave. For 360 days of the year, via their seven day a week drop-in service, they provide everything from hot cooked food, showers and laundry, right through to support with advice, finding work and getting housed.

Kings Cross Brunswick Neighbourhood Association (KCBNA) tackles inequality, creates opportunities and transforms lives. Led by local community members, they invest in the development of people as assets for change across three centres and through outreach work. They encourage community participation in decision making, bringing diverse communities and groups together to build belonging and lead community regeneration. They run over 45 services each week for all ages and reach over 2,000 people annually. This grant will support core costs to deliver strategic aims as well as developing their services.

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.