Grants database

Positive Money is a not-for-profit 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. This grant will increase Positive Money’s capacity for narrative-shaping work on key systemic money and banking issues, and for mobilising the public to apply pressure on decision-makers at key opportunities. It will also fund reactive work challenging damaging narratives in the media, and part fund a new senior digital campaigner.

The Centre for Youth Impact is a community of organisations that work together to progress thinking and practice around impact measurement in youth work and services for young people. This grant provides core funding to the Centre for Youth Impact to support quality evaluation in the youth sector over the next three years in order to build a shared evidence base for the impact of provision, alongside re-balancing evaluation efforts towards continuous quality improvement.

Refugee Action protects refugees’ right to live in safety and dignity through the provision of advice, practical support and advocacy. This grant provides follow-on funding to support the dissemination of Refugee Action’s national legal advice mapping report which provides research into the provision of, and demand for, legal immigration advice.

Black South West Network (BSWN) works to build strong Black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities, businesses and organisations that are empowered to flourish while challenging systemic barriers in order to address racial inequality. This grant supports evaluation of their model for racial justice work, giving BSWN the space to reflect, refine the framework and evaluate their impact.

Asylos is a charity that works to deliver the just protection of law to vulnerable people fleeing persecution. This grant will support Asylos to work with an experienced consultant to address questions around the organisational definition of ​“lived experience”, monitor the state of lived experience representation, the rationale for furthering lived experience engagement, accountability, mechanisms for increased representation and support to people with lived experience within Asylos.

Reach Volunteering is the leading skills-based volunteering charity and the UK’s single biggest source of trustees for the voluntary sector. This grant will support Reach to work with grassroots and micro organisations, design and implement equality, diversity and inclusion monitoring for organisations which use the service and evaluate impact and explore emerging needs. It will also support trialling culture change work, based on centring volunteers’ intrinsic values and developing narratives which foreground values like solidarity, care, agency and purpose.

Alleyne & is a team of associates brought together and headed up by Suzanne Alleyne who support organisations and people to create more equitable spaces. This grant will support the recruitment of a Project Manager to deliver funded sector work and provide an innovative approach to organisational development. This includes access support for critical talks on power and delivery of online distribution, developing the workshop ​‘Sustainable Brilliance’ and supporting the Alleyne & brand to increase profile and impact.

Outburst Arts is dedicated to exploring and celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender stories and experiences through the arts in Northern Ireland. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Tenebrae is a vocal ensemble that performs internationally and delivers a growing education and outreach programme. Building on pilot work with a primary school partner in the borough of Ealing, this grant supports Tenebrae to develop a singing programme in four local primary schools, engaging with each school for three years. This initiative aims to build a sustainable culture of singing to support learning in music and across other curriculum areas.