Grants database

Europia is a community development organisation committed to supporting and empowering Eastern European nationals in Greater Manchester. This grant will support Europia to provide immigration advice and advocacy support for new arrivals from UkraineThey will also provide financial aid through small emergency grants, and work with local authorities to better understand the needs of Ukrainian communities.

Revoke is a grassroots organisation advocating for the rights and welfare of underserved young people, particularly refugees, asylum seekers, and those in the care system. This grant will enable Revoke to give a platform for young people to address how social issues such as housing, economics and the climate crisis affect displaced people. They will do this through a wide range of partnerships – connecting young people in the migration system to other social movements, training and mentorship.

JUSTICE is a law reform and human rights organisation, carrying out research to generate and evaluate recommendations to reform the justice system. With this grant, JUSTICE will support the Home Office to implement the recommendations of its Windrush Compensation Scheme research and use the learnings of the Windrush scheme to influence wider systematic change within the immigration system. The grant will also support JUSTICE to apply the lessons learned from the Windrush Report to other Home Office schemes that have similar issues, and subsequently their wider immigration casework.

Islington Law Centre (ILC) supports marginalised people, achieving positive outcomes for clients and securing policy and practice change through strategic legal and policy work. This grant will support collaborative, strategic work by Islington Law Centre’s three migration focused teams: Migrant Law Project, Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit and the Community Facing Immigration Team.

Central England Law Centre (CELC) provides free legal advice and representation in the areas of community care, discrimination, employment, family, housing, immigration and asylum, and more. This grant will support the delivery of CELC’s Rights in the Community Strategy. This five-year strategy seeks to shift CELC’s community outreach, public legal education, partnership-working and strategic policy-influencing towards a community-driven model.

Action for Race Equality (ARE) works to end race inequality for Black, Asian and mixed heritage communities. This grant provides funds for ARE to deliver a programme of rapid small grants to support grassroot organisations responding to immediate need, with a focus on keeping the issue visible in public, media and politics via cultural interventions and strengthening these civil society organisations in the Windrush space. An advisory committee, including lived experience leaders, will support the programme.

ESTEEM offers young adults aged 14–26 opportunities to develop confidence, build life-skills and improve wellbeing. This grant will fund core costs to support organisational strategy development and broaden ESTEEM’s impact on social change. A dedicated fundraiser will allow the organisation to strategically integrate greater youth voice in the regional consortia (Changing Futures), build more sustainable income streams and strengthen partnership work with other youth organisations and sectors to deepen impact.

Based in Newcastle, Edge North East specialises in supporting young people affected by serious youth violence, gangs and criminal exploitation, including County Lines. This grant will enable Edge North East to embed their women and girls project long term, continue their unique mentoring service and undertake an evaluation. Influencing work drawing on lived experience of the impact of gangs, grooming and exploitation on young women, will advocate for a better systemic response.

Children England is an independent, membership organisation for the children, young people and families voluntary sector. They work to improve the context for England’s children by harnessing the expertise of their network, via policy and campaigning. This grant will support the next phase of the youth-led ​‘ChildFair State’ movement. This work aims to re-design the welfare state, with children and young people’s needs at its heart. Children England will widen the network of young people engaged in the movement, pilot ideas identified in the first phase of the programme, and deliver an accompanying campaign.

Grapevine is a Coventry-based charity that supports people with learning disabilities and autism to gain more voice, choice and control over their lives. CYA is the autonomous youth-led social movement at the heart of Grapevine’s transitions work. This grant will invest in the Community Organiser roles, which will support Grapevine to further develop their youth-led social action work and enhance its impact.

The National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA) is the only national membership body specifically for local sector support and development organisations (also known as local infrastructure) in England. Alongside their members, NAVCA are part of the movement for local social action. This grant supports policy and influencing work around the UK government’s ​‘Levelling Up’ agenda. NAVCA will use its network of members to gather intelligence, create space to share thinking, and influence a positive future for communities.

The Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) is the membership body for UK foundations and grant-making charities. Their work encompasses policy and advocacy, research and information, and a wide-ranging programme of events and learning. This grant supports ACF’s Members’ Policy Forum, an initiative that aims to increase opportunities for all members to engage directly with ACF’s policy work, raise issues of interest and concern, and regularly engage with policy-makers in government.