Grants database

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.

Local Trust aims to inspire and motivate people to get involved and lead change in their communities. They primarily do this through Big Local, which supports people in 150 places to make a difference to the things that matter most to them in their community. This grant supports Local Trust to campaign for the government to establish a Community Wealth Fund (CWF) for areas experiencing economic marginalisation that will rebuild social infrastructure in the country’s most marginalised communities.

Culture Counts is a network of arts, heritage and creative industries organisations in Scotland. They work to protect and develop the culture sector for the common good. This grant supports the development of a co-learning network for equality, diversity and inclusion in the arts, heritage, screen and creative industries alongside work on place and cultural democracy, working to establish how to better connect local planning to arts and culture.

The Chartered College of Teaching is the professional body for teachers. They celebrate teachers and connect their network of over 45,000 members, reaching 3.4 million pupils in the UK. They provide a wealth of resources and insight, bridging the gap between practice and research, and equipping members with the knowledge and confidence to provide the best possible education for children and young people.

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Creative Diversity is a cross-party group in UK Parliament established to bring together policymakers, industry and academia to identify and tackle obstacles to diversity in the creative sector. This grant supports the APPG in their project Pathways Through Creative Education which seeks to understand ​‘what works’ in supporting diversity in creative education and talent pipelines, with a focus on support for those aged 16 and over. Research will include an examination of formal tertiary education and programmes operating outside of formal education settings.

Young Manchester is a membership organisation and a Young People’s Foundation. They strengthen, connect and champion organisations and leaders of all ages, who are supporting and delivering for children and young people in Manchester. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.