Grants database

The Alliance Publishing Trust (APT) aims to provide the global philanthropy sector with independent opinion, expert debate and trusted insight, through events, newsletters, and quarterly print and online magazine Alliance. This grant supports the APT to contribute to greater effectiveness of grant giving through their provision of daily short form content, weekly long form content and monthly discussion events covering key global philanthropy issues.

The Swedish Afghanistan Committee (SAC) is a member organisation that provides human rights-based development aid in Afghanistan. Their work supports women and children, disabled people, and internally displaced populations. This grant supports work that underpins Afghan people’s rights to health, education, social justice, and rural development.

The Norwegian Afghanistan Committee (NAC) works for a peaceful and independent Afghanistan. They support Afghan people in developing a democratic and equal society without poverty through projects in education, health, environment and sustainability. This grant contributes to NAC’s emergency response to support marginalised communities in rural Afghanistan, with a focus on restarting girls’ education in previous conflict areas, supporting midwifery and nursing students, and supporting agricultural based income generation for women.

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is made up of 14 member charities specialising in humanitarian aid and in different areas of disaster response. They come together to speak in one voice and make fundraising more efficient when the DEC launch an appeal. This grant contributes to the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal, which has the primary focus of supporting internally displaced people and refugees fleeing the conflict with cash grants, food packages, warm clothing and shelter.

The Civic Power Fund is a new charitable fund that will support community organising and build the infrastructure and leadership it needs to thrive. This grant supports the Civic Power Fund to enable innovative and impactful community organising in three geographic regions of the UK. This work aims to strengthen democracy by increasing the capacity of citizens in each region to organise, mobilise and effect change.

Catalyst is a charitable network incubated by CAST. The Catalyst network helps UK civil society grow their digital skills and processes. This grant underpins the continuation of Catalyst’s vital digital support services including direct support, advice, communities of practice and training programmes. Further development of Catalyst’s infrastructure will help maintain momentum of its sector-wide impact, as well as support its move to a more equitable network-led governance model.

Body & Soul supports children, young people, and families whose lives have been impacted by childhood adversity and trauma. Funding will go towards core support and their work with young people. This grant supports Body & Soul to respond to increased demand for therapeutic support for young people affected by the current mental health crisis, with a specific focus on racial trauma.

Black in Data is a new collaborative movement for people of colour, striving to promote equality of opportunity and representation within the data industry. They aim to elevate people of colour through learning and development, and by providing a supportive and empowering nationwide network of members. This grant supports Black in Data to develop a software that will be used to automate how mentees select their mentors, building in a higher degree of success than manual selection. This will foster a deeper and more meaningful mentoring experience for both mentors and mentees.

Big Change is a charitable trust that works with partners to influence a society where every young person is set up to thrive. Through their community of supporters, they direct funds and provide support to pioneers and projects that deliver bold approaches to change. This grant contributes to Big Change’s Subject to Change research programme on models of education and learning reform. Funding will help to ensure youth agency and leadership within the programme, in the form of a team of Youth Associates, Students as Researchers and focus groups with young people from underrepresented communities.

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 supports The Centre’s work with national and regional partners, particularly partners working with minoritised groups, to disseminate a sector-wide survey on young people’s voice and power. This will improve the reach of the survey and overall data collection and quality.

The School of International Futures (SOIF) is made up of diverse practitioners in intergenerational planning, strategy and policy. They work with organisations, communities, policymakers and business leaders to improve the present and future by using foresight and futures methods to make better strategic choices, improve quality of innovation, and build resilience. This grant supports SOIF’s operational capacity as the organisation enters a period of growth, with the role of Operations Director expanding their activities with a focus on policy assessment and intergenerational fairness.

My Life My Say (MLMS) is a youth-led charity on a mission to create an age of political engagement that will deliver greater social inclusion and equality, allowing the space for dialogue across generations and communities. This grant supports MLMS to deliver the Common Futures Forum 2021 with the aim of connecting young people, leading activists, businesses, influencers and political figures. The Common Futures Forum was first launched by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in 2018 as a summit that connects and empowers young people to explore solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing society today.