Grants database
305 results
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Migration and Systemic JusticeMigrant Action
Migrant Action is a grassroots advocacy and migrant justice organisation working with people who have migrated to the UK and are outside the asylum system. This grant will support their core work and implementation of their 5‑year strategy including: provision of holistic advice and advocacy, mentoring migrant leaders, expanding multi-agency partnerships, influencing policy and practice across the Yorkshire region through convening and collaborative campaigning.
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Nurturing and Developing Migrant Leaders from the GrassrootsIndependent Workers Union of Great Britain
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is a trade union led by and made up of precarious and migrant workers, with a particular focus on outsourced workers and workers in the “gig economy” (low-paid self-employment) sectors. This grant will support the trial of a new leadership development programme to nurture worker members (80% of whom are people who have migrated), increase their skills and capacity to represent their peers, take on advocacy work and leadership in the union.
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Hackney Migrant Centre Advice ServiceHackney Migrant Centre
Hackney Migrant Centre (HMC) supports asylum seekers, refugees and other vulnerable migrants to access their rights and rebuild their lives. They create a safe, supportive environment, with a weekly session giving high quality advice on immigration and housing, backed up by practical support, a hot lunch, and migrant-led social sessions to improve wellbeing. This grant will support their core work and secure their existing services for the next 12 months while also allowing the organisation to focus on applying for longer-term funding and ensuring organisational sustainability.
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No Pride in Deportation
African Rainbow Family
African Rainbow Family (ARF) is a not-for-profit organisation that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersexual and queer (LGBTIQ) people of African heritage and from wider Black and Asian minority ethnic groups. This grant will fund a Campaign & Communications Officer to enable ARF to increase their capacity to raise awareness and campaign for justice, focusing particularly on ending deportation and detention of LGBTIQ people seeking asylum in the UK.
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Supporting and mobilising young migrants for a better future
We Belong
We Belong is a migrant youth-led organisation campaigning for the rights of young migrants, providing information, support and training. This grant will enable We Belong to expand their operations to Manchester, as well as sustaining their work in London through a mix of direct community work alongside wider advocacy and influencing.
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Resist & Persist: Radically transforming the UK’s immigration system
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) provides legal support for people who have migrated to the UK and their families, specialising in immigration and asylum law and policy. This grant will support JCWI to encourage direct resistance, through community organising, collective and legal action and persist in driving long-term political change relevant to their core campaigns: migrant workers, undocumented people and climate justice.
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Be the Change
The Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID)
The Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID) is a national charity that supports volunteer visitors to people in immigration detention, wherever they are held. This grant will support AVID’s ambition to consolidate and strengthen their membership network through expanding to reach more people in detention, prioritising outreach to prisons, responding to volunteer management challenges through wellbeing and recruitment support and developing a handbook to build an open resource for people in detention, their families and visitors. These priorities were developed in consultation with members and people with lived experience, to better meet the needs of people in detention and lead system change.
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Operational emergency support
Shpresa Programme
Shpresa Programme’s mission is to enable men, women and children from the Albanian-speaking community to live as full and active citizens through advice, support, education and training. This grant supports the recruitment of an Operational Manager to oversee project management and reporting, fundraising work supported via external provider as well as the need for consultancy and support with the building project, acquisition and renovation work.
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Building a sustainable migrant democratic engagement organisation
Migrant Democracy Project
Migrant Democracy Project promotes and facilitates the civic and democratic participation of first generation migrants both locally and nationally. This grant contributes to funding a part-time operational co-CEO role to establish a strong governance structure, implement the fundraising strategy, coordinate projects and perform the day-to-day operational tasks of the small organisation. In addition, this funding covers the organisation’s policy and strategy development and directly contributes to the Organising and Community Building stream of their work.
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Young Migrant Women fight for a fairer society
Latin American Women’s Rights Service
Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS) offer free and confidential specialist services for all Latin American women, including advice and counselling for women facing gender violence, and legal advice in welfare benefits, housing and employment rights. This grant will support LAWRS’ group for young women and girls, Sin Fronteras, and enable them to set up and develop a young women’s Advisory Board, whose members will participate in policy, advocacy and campaigning work. A training and leadership programme will support young women to develop the confidence and skills to engage fully with policy influencing and speaking to the media.
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Thrive project: equal access to education for migrant children
Indo American Refugee and Migrant Organisation (IRMO)
Indo American Refugee and Migrant Organisation (IRMO) works to enable the development, agency and participation of Latin Americans and other Spanish and Portuguese speakers, by responding to both immediate needs and structural inequalities.This grant will support their work with Latin American migrant children and their families, with a special focus on children with insecure status and Special Educational Needs or Disability, alongside schools and school admission departments, policymakers and specialist organisations and legal partners.
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Strengthening human rights protection and realisation for all in Scotland
Human Rights Consortium Scotland
The Human Rights Consortium Scotland is the civil society network to defend and promote human rights in Scotland. The Consortium has around 170 network member organisations from across civil society. This grant will support the Consortium to strengthen connections between Scottish human rights and migration sectors, facilitate the voices of those with lived experience of migration to be heard in human rights developments and share learning and experience from Scotland with organisations and decision-makers across the UK.