Grants database

Open Rights Group (ORG) is a digital campaigning organisation working to protect people’s rights to privacy and free speech online. They work to raise awareness of the threats of technological developments to human rights and challenge them through public campaigns, legal actions, policy interventions and tech projects. This grant supports ORG to carry out cross-sector challenges to data discrimination and exploitation policies and practices within the UK immigration system, through advocacy, campaigns and a network of 25 migrants’ rights groups.

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. From their current base in Lewisham, they stage exhibitions and events and deliver an education programme for primary, secondary, university and adult learners. They also convene a knowledge-sharing Migration Network of museums and galleries across the UK. This grant supports the organisation to deliver on their ambition to create a permanent Migration Museum for Britain, through a four-year programme of public engagement, audience research, education programmes, exhibitions, events and media campaigns.

Migrant Voice is a migrant-led, national organisation focused on migrant-centred communications, campaigning and advocacy to achieve migrants’ rights and justice for all. They build migrants’ skills to speak in the media in order to strengthen migrant voices in civil society, counter xenophobia and build support for migrants’ rights. This grant provides core support for the roles of Director and Head of Development who will implement a new strategy that will increase Migrant Voice’s impact. They will extend their network into two more geographic areas and galvanise more organisations to collaborate around their thematic priorities.

The Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID) is the national charity and network of voluntary organisations providing support for people in detention. They aim to ensure that all those affected by detention can access a visitor to support them, and to achieve fundamental reform of hostile policies through awareness raising and community building. This grant supports AVID to implement strategic transformation which will see people with lived experience of the immigration system guiding AVID’s work. This work will include refreshing AVID’s strategic goals, and researching, implementing and monitoring new ways to ensure decision making is meaningfully lived-experience led.

Sheffield Young Carers is a Sheffield-based charity which provides support to children and young people aged 8–25 who provide significant unpaid care to family members. This grant provides strategic support for the organisation to pilot the role of Coordinator over the course of one year, to maintain and grow the Young Carers National Voice network and impact.

Based in Nottingham, Switch Up works with children and young people who are at risk of or already involved with gang and criminal activity. They use a combination of sports, peer mentoring and coaching to help around 250 young people a year to transform their lives and move away from offending behaviour. This grant provides core funding for the setup of Switch Up’s new centre in Mansfield which will extend the organisation’s reach to young people.

School of Hard Knocks (SOHK) is a national charity working in England, Scotland and Wales. It offers a combination of sport, group sessions and mentoring to help participants improve their physical and mental wellbeing, alongside long-term programmes in secondary schools for those who are at risk of exclusion. This grant provides follow-on funding for SOHK to develop a package of training and support for schools to create an inclusive environment for trans and non-binary young people taking part in sport.

Peer Power supports young people with lived experience of the criminal justice, social services, and mental health systems, empowering them to advocate for positive change. This grant provides follow-on support for Peer Power to develop a youth-led communications strategy which will amplify the lived experience and priorities of young people, as well as reach more young people through the organisation’s co-production training.

Gendered Intelligence works to make the world safer and more accepting for young trans people by providing information to the people around them including schools, employers and healthcare professionals. They provide direct support to young people through peer groups and residentials. This grant provides continued core support for the organisation’s staff to develop their management and leadership skills to complement their lived experience. This will enhance the growth of the organisation’s asset-based work with young people and increase impact at an individual level.

The Anti Tribalism Movement (ATM) was founded in 2010 by a group of young Somalis who wanted to address tribe-based conflict, discrimination and inequalities affecting the Somali-British community. This grant supports continued development and growth of ATM’s new community hub through the recruitment of a Community Hub Manager. Funding will also support the organisation to increase their financial sustainability, increase opportunities for young people and enhance their community influencing.

The Alliance for Youth Justice (AYJ) connects over 70 not-for-profit organisations working together for improvements to the youth justice system in England and Wales. This grant provides support following AYJ’s previous grant, allowing the organisation to scale up their influencing work and develop a new strategy focused on ​‘reimagining youth justice’ around the principles of children’s rights, access, equity and participation.

Young Women’s Outreach Project supports young women in Gateshead who are excluded from education or experiencing complex crises, through the provision of holistic support by staff with lived experience. This grant provides core support to the organisation’s strategic development including the development of a new youth board which will incorporate youth voice in the organisation’s delivery and influencing activities.