Grants database

Migrant Democracy Project promotes and facilitates the civic and democratic participation of first generation migrants both locally and nationally. This grant contributes to funding a part-time operational co-CEO role to establish a strong governance structure, implement the fundraising strategy, coordinate projects and perform the day-to-day operational tasks of the small organisation. In addition, this funding covers the organisation’s policy and strategy development and directly contributes to the Organising and Community Building stream of their work.

Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS) offer free and confidential specialist services for all Latin American women, including advice and counselling for women facing gender violence, and legal advice in welfare benefits, housing and employment rights. This grant will support LAWRS’ group for young women and girls, Sin Fronteras, and enable them to set up and develop a young women’s Advisory Board, whose members will participate in policy, advocacy and campaigning work. A training and leadership programme will support young women to develop the confidence and skills to engage fully with policy influencing and speaking to the media.

Indo American Refugee and Migrant Organisation (IRMO) works to enable the development, agency and participation of Latin Americans and other Spanish and Portuguese speakers, by responding to both immediate needs and structural inequalities.This grant will support their work with Latin American migrant children and their families, with a special focus on children with insecure status and Special Educational Needs or Disability, alongside schools and school admission departments, policymakers and specialist organisations and legal partners.

The Human Rights Consortium Scotland is the civil society network to defend and promote human rights in Scotland. The Consortium has around 170 network member organisations from across civil society. This grant will support the Consortium to strengthen connections between Scottish human rights and migration sectors, facilitate the voices of those with lived experience of migration to be heard in human rights developments and share learning and experience from Scotland with organisations and decision-makers across the UK.

Haringey Migrant Support Centre (HMSC) runs weekly services for migrants, regardless of background, providing free advice and casework on immigration, welfare, housing and community care. This grant will allow HMSC to develop its capacity to contribute to strategic litigation and policy work. It will also work collaboratively with other frontline organisations in the migration sector to build a network to share best practice, information and learning, improve co-ordination of services and amplify the voice of migrants in London.

Doctors of the World UK fights to reduce health inequalities by improving access to healthcare in the UK focusing on long-term systemic change. This grants supports them to develop their advocacy and engagement work, through gathering evidence of the impact of migrant health and immigration policies on undocumented migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, and developing ​‘expert by experience’ (EBE) led policy solutions. Work will also take place with an EBE advisory group to identify advocacy priorities, and invest in upskilling the group to act as professional advocates, focusing on navigating the parliamentary system and policy making processes and speaking to the media.

Act Build Change (ABC) are a fast-growing community organising school with a focus on accessibility. Their mission is to make community organising accessible to all and build a network of leaders committed to bringing about forms of justice at different intersections, with collective care as a core strand of their training. This grant will provide ABC the opportunity to focus on core strategic growth, collaborate with smaller, specialist migrant collectives, support larger organisations to influence better on systemic changes, and run a free programme of their standard care sessions twice a year.

Pie Factory Music is a Ramsgate-based youth work charity that engages and supports young people across east Kent through music and the arts. This grant will provide funding for the new CEO, which will enable the organisation to continue to grow their impact at a vital time for both the charity and the future of youth services in Kent.

Peer Power supports young people with lived experience of the criminal justice, social services and mental health systems to advocate for positive change within these systems and services. This grant will support Peer Power to develop youth-led communications that amplify lived experience and systems change.

West End Women and Girls Centre are the only open access community based women and girls centre in Newcastle. They support working class young women with lived experience of gender inequality to mobilise through peer education. This grant will support West End Women and Girls Centre to build local campaigns and coalitions to purposefully change policy and legislation and create better gender equality for young women in the North East.

Trefnu Cymunedol Cymru/​Together Creating Communities (TCC) uses community organising principles to bring together a variety of groups including community groups, faith groups and schools to create long-term community cohesion in North East Wales. This grant will fund their work training and supporting young leaders to run strategic campaigns on the issues affecting them, as well as engaging more diverse new groups and making shared youth spaces more accessible.

RJ Working is a Cornwall-based charity that uses a Restorative Justice model to support young people to tackle injustice and respond to conflict positively, to create more compassionate, inclusive and fair communities. This grant will support RJ Working to partner with the InterClimate Network, a charity specialising in supporting young people to become leaders and advocates for action on climate change. Together they will engage young people in 20 local secondary schools and colleges to deliver a youth climate change activism programme. This will form part of a five-year plan of consulting every young person in Cornwall about their relationship with climate action and facilitating opportunities to engage in collective responses. It will also support RJ Working’s journey towards becoming a fully youth-led organisation.