Grants database

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.

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.