Grants database

Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBSUK) is a project based in Oxfordshire and run in partnership between Oxfordshire County Council Children’s Services and Oxford Hub. BBSUK creates long term mentoring and friendships between mentors and children aged 7–11. This grant supports the organisation to scale up their mentoring support to up to 100 children on the edge of care in two new locations.

The Young Foundation is a UKRI accredited Independent Research Organisation, social investor and community development practitioner, with the mission to develop better connected and more sustainable communities across the UK. This grant supports the organisation to grow their new national network of peer researchers to be more diverse and reflective of the priorities and needs of marginalised groups across the UK.

Dartington Service Design Lab is a research charity focused on improving outcomes for children, young people and families. This grant supports Dartington to carry out an inquiry into how organisations can use evidence to shape and answer their own questions about how to improve their services. The results will shape the organisation’s strategy and provide outputs for the wider sector.

Sistema Scotland is on a mission to transform lives through music, working with children experiencing disadvantage. This grant supports Sistema to evaluate the impact of their programme Big Noise which aims to equip children with resilience and confidence and reach their potential across all areas in their lives.

Aesop connects Arts and Health organisations through research and programmes. This grant will support Aesop to explore the potential of social franchising as means to increase community involvement in arts and health programmes and encourage faster adoption.

Safe Society focuses on improving the education, health and livelihoods of communities experiencing the most disadvantage in Uttar Pradesh. This grant supports phase three of a project that aims to strengthen the safety net for children in contact with railways in Gorakhpur by promoting the use of relevant government schemes, intervening with children and families, protecting and restoring new arrivals and working with restored children to ensure retention and rehabilitation.

Pararth Samiti focuses on supporting rural development within Chhindwara. This grant supports the third phase of a programme to improve nutrition security for members of the Bhariyas tribe in ten villages in Patalkot Regio.

Nirantar aims to empower women through education, by enabling access to information, promoting literacy and engendering education processes. This grant will support the Trust to develop a feminist online educational portal that addresses issues of gender, sexuality, caste, class and society, featuring content in English and Hindi.

Bapu Trust aims to decolonise India’s mental health system. This grant supports the second phase of their Urban Mental Health and Inclusion Programme (UCMHI). UCMHI works to create inclusive environments for disabled people and those living with mental health problems in Madhya-Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

This grant provides support for the Citizenship and Integration Initiative, a pooled fund seconding staff from civil society organisations into the Greater London Authority’s Social Integration team, to increase access to advice to EU Londoners and young people with insecure status and democratic participation in the capital.

The Roma Support Group is a Roma-led organisation working with East European Roma refugees and migrants. This grant will support the organisation to explore and test a participatory media and advocacy project to enable young Roma to have their voice heard in advocacy and influencing work, complementing their existing advocacy work.

Open Rights Group protects the digital rights of people in the UK including privacy and free speech online. This grant will support the organisation to use collaborative advocacy and campaign approaches to equip voluntary organisations in the migration sector to protect people’s rights online, and to tackle issues in government use of data and technologies within the sector.