Grants database
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Building a Kind EconomyParticipation and the Practice of Rights
Participation and the Practice of Rights is a grassroots human rights organisation based in Belfast, working on campaigns relating to socio-economic rights, currently including migration, anti-racism, mental health and housing. This grant supports The Kind Economy, which is subverting the hostile environment by building networks of solidarity and support around asylum seekers and refugees as well as challenging poor practice by public bodies and contractors.
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Building power among Eastern European migrants in the UKPOMOC
POMOC is a national grassroots political home for Eastern European migrants to organise together towards dignity, power and justice. They work with Eastern European migrants with marginalised genders, including women and queer, trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people, and work in solidarity with other marginalised communities. This grant supports POMOC to widen their reach through local organising hubs and a membership structure, increase the pool of leaders and their capacity for creating change, and grow their local and national impact through power-building campaigns.
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Core supportMigrants in Culture
Migrants in Culture is a migrant-led design agency that resources organisers and artists to build more creative and powerful social movements. This grant contributes to core costs to enable Migrants in Culture to increase their capacity and build a more sustainable organisation.
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Divest Borders
People and Planet
People & Planet is the largest student network in the UK campaigning for social and environmental justice. They mobilise students to campaign for justice from public and private institutions that act in the interests of profit over human rights and a liveable planet. This grant supports People & Planet to mobilise their network to run the Divest Borders campaign, through which students are demanding that their universities divest from companies profiting from violence against migrating people.
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Dismantling the hostile environment by ending migrant homelessness
NACCOM (No Accommodation Network)
NACCOM is a membership organisation of around 140 charities and community groups across the UK who support people facing homelessness and destitution within the asylum and immigration system. This grant provides core funding to support NACCOM’s work improving their network’s approach to centring lived experience, wellbeing and anti-racist practice. They will also advocate for migrant housing and homelessness to be ‘mainstreamed’ across other efforts to tackle homelessness through legislation, policy and practice. This includes joining wider calls for housing reform in the UK to prevent poor accommodation and homelessness among migrant and wider communities.
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Build Bridges, Break Chains
The Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID)
Migration Fund £180,000 East Midlands, London, North East, North West, South West, West Midlands, UK 2024The Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID) is a national charity that supports volunteer visitors to people in immigration detention, wherever they are held. This grant contributes to core costs to enable AVID to meet their strategic priorities, which include growing the capacity of volunteer visitors, increasing collaboration and connecting with the wider movement to oppose immigration detention.
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Women Asylum Seekers Together core programme
Women Asylum Seekers Together
Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) is a member led peer support group of women in the asylum system in Greater Manchester. Together, women share their experiences, empower and support one another through the UK’s immigration system. This grant provides funding towards their core work to offer mutual support and solidarity, share skills and information, campaign for change and increase health and wellbeing. This includes the weekly drop in, WAST Nightingales Choir and other activities in response to members’ needs and interests.
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Migrant Power Project
Triangular
Triangular is a charity and network of volunteers and professionals who support migrant communities in Tyne and Wear. They lead a coalition of 30 refugee community organisations and five new migrant groups to build their capacity, coordinating engagement with mainstream services, and leading a coalition to effect change in terms of advocacy, local governance, and policy reform. This grant contributes funding to support their core operational costs.
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Strengthening our commitment towards racial justice
The Racial Justice Network
The Racial Justice Network (RJN) is a network of individuals, communities and organisations working together to end racial injustice and address legacies of colonialism through economic, holistic, environmental, cultural and spiritual repairs. This grant provides core funding to deepen and strengthen RJN’s infrastructure, build their capacity, and enable them to work strategically which will support them to expand their operations beyond West Yorkshire.
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Breaking glass ceilings on the crossroads of class and migration
The Class Work Project (hosted by Movement trust)
The Class Work Project is a workers’ cooperative developing theory, analysis, and practice around issues relating to class identity, oppression, migration and stigma in Britain and beyond. This grant supports development of a new and updated version of their Exploring Class workshop. The Class Work Project will conduct the research and outreach needed to develop a new, updated version of the workshop to account for the experiences of migrant working-class people, and begin its delivery both to the relevant organisations and to the public.
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Building the power of migrant communities for national policy change
The Centre for Progressive Change
The Centre for Progressive Change build campaigns for progressive national policy and legislative change, through community organising, mobilising, advocacy and communication. This grant supports their campaigning work to change legislation so that sick pay and housing policy benefits migrant and low-income communities in the UK.
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Strengthening organisational infrastructure
Southeast and East Asian Centre (SEEAC)
Southeast and East Asian Centre (SEEAC) is a community-led organisation by and for migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum from Southeast and East Asian countries, which provides essential community support services and delivers advocacy work. This grant provides staffing costs to enable SEEAC to strengthen their organisational infrastructure and ensure that day-to-day activities are safeguarded, compliant, and sustainable. Increased staffing will allow the Executive Director and Programme Manager to work strategically to develop and deliver sustainable programmes, campaigns, advocacy, and partnership building so that SEEAC can make more impact.