Grants database

Shado is a lived-experience-led community of artists, activists, organisers and writers using storytelling to create system change. This grant supports shado to expand their community impact, reaching new audiences and supporting the capacity of the ecosystem long term.

Safe Passage Fund are an emergent pooled fund who support, build capacity with, and advocate around the needs of migrant, refugee, asylum-seeking, and diaspora communities. This grant supports the Fund to increase its grantmaking ability and build their capacity to empower grassroots groups to advocate for their communities at a local and international level.

The Migration Museum explores how the movement of people to and from Britain across the ages has made us who we are – as individuals and as a nation. This grant supports the delivery of a permanent Migration Museum for Britain, co-created with migrant and diaspora communities. It will also allow them to expand their national reach in the migration education space, and uplift and support the work of frontline and direct delivery organisations working with migrant and diaspora communities.

Mermaids works with and on behalf of transgender and gender variant children and young people in England, Scotland and Wales. This grant provides funding to strengthen their policy and communications efforts, and sustain their youth engagement programmes, which equip trans young people with the skills, confidence and platforms to speak out on the issues that affect them most.

The Hummingbird Project works with unaccompanied young people aged 12 – 25 who are claiming asylum and have been placed in accommodation in Sussex. This grant supports the expansion of Hummingbird’s Young Leaders programme, which empowers young refugees as current leaders, not just future ones.

Coffee Afrik CIC work with women and young people from Black and Global Majority communities to run community hubs. This grant provides support in establishing a national culturally sensitive influencing campaign.

Calderdale Valley of Sanctuary provide vital resources and opportunities for refugees and people seeking asylum to integrate and contribute to the fabric of their communities. This grant provides core funding to support their organisational strategy, January 2025 – July 2027, which sets out their strategic aims and identifies key resource gaps.

Bringing Hope is a community-led, faith-informed organisation supporting individuals and families impacted by crime, serious violence, and exploitation. This grant supports the development of a safe, alternative environment for young people (14–25) involved in or affected by crime, gangs, county lines, trauma, and serious violence. This space will support reflection, healing, and engagement in meaningful, culturally relevant activities. Alongside direct support, Bringing Hope will challenge systemic inequities by working with statutory and community partners to shape inclusive, empowering practices that improve young people’s transitions into adulthood.

Black Lives Matter UK (BLMUK) is a social movement organisation based in London with projects in Leeds, Birmingham and various parts of London. This grant provides support for BLMUK’s core activities.

Asylum Justice is a charitable organisation in Wales that offers free specialist legal advice, assistance and representation to asylum seekers, refugees, and other vulnerable migrants. This grant supports Asylum Justice to strengthen their organisational capacity, deliver high-quality legal services, and play a leading role in advocating for a just asylum system to mitigate the impact of the hostile environment.

Abianda is dedicated to supporting young women and girls who are harmed by criminal exploitation and violence associated with gangs and county lines through direct one to one and group work, contextual safeguarding services, training and participatory practice. This grant provides core funding to enable Abianda to deliver their Contextual Safeguarding in the Community programme.

New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) support charities, philanthropists, funders and social enterprises maximise their social impact. This grant will support the critical next phase of the Open Youth Infrastructure (OYI) Project, building momentum towards a broader systems change agenda in the youth sector. This phase will focus on setting the scene for long-term collaborative infrastructure and launching OYI to the wider youth sector and funders.