Grants database

This south London-based charity supports separated children and young people who are seeking asylum and adult women, with either unsettled or recently secured immigration status to integrate and live independent lives. This grant will support CARAS to strengthen their strategic plan, develop new evaluation methods to include the piloting of new media platforms, share their model of support and pursue more partnership work.

The Standing Committee for Youth Justice is an alliance of over 60 not-for-profit organisations working together for improvements to the youth justice system in England and Wales. To best respond to the Committee’s growth, the team will develop a new strategic vision, a communications strategy and a youth advisory group.

VOYPIC delivers advocacy with and on behalf of young people in care. This mini-grant helps the organisation to support young people with experience of being in care to lead social action projects and to build and lead a membership scheme to engage others in social action.

The Winch is a community organisation that focuses on children and young people building strong, connected communities. This mini-grant supports a Youth Worker and Youth Organisers to work with young people experiencing disadvantage as they go through expert training and accreditation and support them to lead long-term social action addressing the root causes of youth violence.

The Hummingbird Project provides services in Brighton and Sussex for unaccompanied young people seeking asylum or with refugee status. This mini-grant supports the organisation to enhance support and opportunities for graduates of the Young Leaders Programme, the formation of a Youth Board and staffing resources.

The 4Front Project supports young people who have been impacted by violence to create change.This mini-grant provides resources for the youth-led 4Mation campaign and the 4Mation Peace Fellowship, which builds the capacity of young activists to lead campaigns.

TCC uses community organising principles to bring together a variety of groups including community groups, faith groups and schools to create long-term community cohesion in North East Wales. This grant will enable TCC to increase their work with young people who experience injustice, in particular with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities; young people seeking asylum; and young people excluded from school.

RECLAIM supports young working-class people living in Greater Manchester to lead change in the systems that limit working class young people’s opportunities. This mini-grant supports young people to campaign nationally and locally around issues of discrimination, inequality and stigmatisation arising from unfair economic and political systems.

Praxis Community Projects is an East London charity working with people who have migrated and are negatively affected by UK immigration policy. This mini-grant supports the employment of a Youth Organiser who will facilitate young people impacted by immigration policy to change the negative perception of young people who migrate to the UK.

Platform is a charity that combines arts, activism, education and research. This mini-grant supports the organisation in increasing the capacity of young people with experience of marginalisation to initiate their own social change projects and influence the practice of youth organisations.

Phoenix Education Trust supports young people to lead change and facilitates collaborative decision-making between schools, colleges and their communities. This mini-grant supports the Trust’s Student Voice and Refugee Support Network to engage young change makers in designing, planning and delivering their own social action projects that will improve young people’s experience of the education sector.

Peer Power supports young people who have experienced abuse, violence and trauma to understand their life experiences and develop empathy towards themselves and others. This mini-grant contributes to training for Peer Leaders to support young people in building self-esteem, creating community and making change to policies and services using co-production methods with statutory professionals.