Grants database

Reunite Families UK (RFUK) is a lived experience-led organisation, working with and supporting families affected by the UK spouse visa rules and the Minimum Income Requirement. This grant will support RFUK to gather more evidence of short and longer-term forced separation on the mental health of individuals, especially children, through network expansion, research and policy advocacy. Funding will provide staffing costs for a part-time Manager, a part-time Co-production Coordinator and external evaluation.

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 cover core support towards PIRC’s lived experience-led narrative change project. The work focuses on cross-issue, root-cause, movement-building approaches to narrative work by training 15 lived experience leaders on priority issues including migration, racial justice, LGBTQ+ liberation, climate justice and poverty.

Migrants Organise bring immigration detainees and communities together to create and perform powerful music, increase wellbeing, and change attitudes to migrants. This grant will provide core funding to develop their artistic programme with Migrants in Culture, a migrant-led design agency. The programme aims to improve the wellbeing of all participants; put people with lived experience of detention on public platforms where they will be seen, heard and recognised; and raise awareness of detention, and help change public attitudes.

Medact organise health workers to take action on the structural barriers people face to health equity and justice. This grant will fund Medact in partnership with Migrants Organise to build the national ​‘Patients Not Passports’ campaign which aims to ensure that everyone can access healthcare, regardless of their immigration status. They will work with healthcare workers and migrant communities to challenge NHS charging regulations at local and national levels, combining community and workplace organising, along with advocacy, research and legal strategies to achieve policy change.

Empire Fighting Chance is a Bristol-based charity that uses non-contact boxing and intensive individual support to inspire vulnerable young people to make positive changes in their lives and improve their mental health. This grant will fund improvements to their facilities to provide a therapy gym and on-site staff accommodation.

NOMAD works with young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds, to help them develop their confidence and successfully integrate into the wider community. This grant provides core funding to enable NOMAD to successfully develop and implement a new strategic plan.

RIANA Development Network (RDN) is based in West London and exists to address the unmet needs of the communities in and around the Borough of Hounslow which include poverty, homelessness, substance misuse and poor health. This grant will enable RDN to embed and expand their piloted Looking Ahead programme for 16–18 year olds most at risk of not sustaining education, training or employment. It will also ensure RDN can pursue accreditation for their youth programmes and develop their asset-based approach via their existing youth board of peer volunteers.

On Road Media aims to improve media coverage of misrepresented groups and issues, improving people’s lives and the way they are treated by society. This grant will support the development of All About Trans, contributing to staffing costs and enabling the appointment of a new Project Assistant. This increased capacity will allow the team to deliver more interactions and training with an additional 25 young people and 50 media professionals, working on content to reach millions. As a result, more young transgender people will have their voices heard via nuanced media portrayals, leading to better public understanding and support.

Leeds Mind promotes positive mental health and wellbeing and provides help and support to those who need it in Leeds and West Yorkshire. They plan to expand their mental health peer support offer in response to positive feedback from young service users. This grant will fund a second practitioner to join the existing Young People Service Lead and work directly with a minimum 160 young people who have experienced trauma. They will also reach a further 13,000 young people via schools and community programmes.

Children’s Legal Centre Wales (CLC Wales) improves the lives of young people and their parents or carers by providing information, online advice and advocacy services to promote children’s rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and Welsh law. This grant will allow CLC Wales to recruit an Education and Engagement Lead to develop and deliver interactive rights-based awareness sessions to young people, engage and support them to produce accessible legal resources and coordinate working groups of young people to engage with policy processes.

Arts Education Exchange (AEE) is a youth organisation based in Margate focusing on young people aged 8–25 years who face barriers to participation in education, employment and wider society. The grant will enable AEE to expand their current offer to become an alternative education centre and advocate and amplify models of education grounded in creativity and wellbeing. It will also allow them to set up a Youth Ambassador Group to ensure young people inform the charity’s organisational programming and strategy.

Active Horizons work with young Black people and others who experience racism, including many who are refugees and asylum seekers. They offer youth leadership, mentoring, education and arts programmes. This grant will support the delivery of youth-led anti-racism work with four secondary schools in Bexley, building on learning from a pilot project. This programme aims to tackle racism within schools and communities, and centre the voices of Black, Asian, and other young people with lived experience of racism.