Grants database

The Refugee Council supports and empowers people who have been forced to flee conflict, violence and persecution in order to rebuild their lives in the UK. This grant supports the Refugee Council to test communications and messaging that makes the case for refugee protection as part of their work to mark the seventieth anniversary of the Refugee Council.

The UK Democracy Fund is a pooled fund set up by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust and supported by a group of committed funders. They work to build a healthy democracy – one in which everyone can participate and where political power is shared fairly. This grant supports Millions More 24, a project which aims to register and turn-out to vote one million new voters from under-represented groups at the next UK general election, especially young people, people born overseas, people from minoritised communities, renters and those on low incomes.

L’Auberge des Migrants has been working with refugees and displaced people in Calais and the surrounding area since 2008. They act as an umbrella organisation, bringing together eight different organisations and working collaboratively to support people, volunteers and organisations in the region. This grant supports the Humanitarian Base of Calais, an an inter-organisational project developed by five organisations that work to support displaced people living in informal camps on the France-UK border. Funding will help distribute tents, sleeping bags, firewood and cooking ingredients to people living at the base.

LocalMotion brings together six communities and five major funding organisations to support community led action. They are reimagining how communities, funders, and systems can work together more equitably, more effectively, and more inclusively—for everyone. 

They believe that with imagination, courage and deep collaboration, lasting change that tackles the root causes of social, environmental and economic injustice is not only possible – it is already happening. Together they create spaces and networks for connection and collaboration that create powerful, lasting change in how things are done. Bringing resources and decision making into local hands, where they believe that real change happens.

LocalMotion works in six places— Torbay, Oldham, Middlesbrough, Lincoln, Enfield and Carmarthen —where communities are building on local strengths, imagining new futures and leading change that lasts. 

The five funding partners are City Bridge Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Lankelly Chase Foundation, Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales, and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Together they are building a social, economic, and environmental justice movement. By communities, for communities.

The Peel is a charity that aims to build a connected community in Clerkenwell, London. They run activities for adults, children and young people, and mental health awareness projects. This grant supports The Peel as they build their Clerkenwell Youth Development Programme providing support for children in educational transitional stages through a youth club, life-skills programme, cultural enrichment, and career development for older children.

The Parent House is a charity that supports parents in Islington. They aim to reduce poverty and social inequality for families by building parents’ confidence and skills through provision of courses, training and wellbeing support. This grant supports the Parent House to deliver one-on-one support, consultations and peer mentoring to parents in Islington in order to strengthen core skills, improve wellbeing and provide opportunities to enter education and work.

Islington Giving supports projects helping people living in poverty in Islington by raising funds and making grants to groups supporting young people, families, older people and those with mental health issues. This grant is Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s contribution as a coalition partner which will help create a larger funding pot, enabling Islington Giving to work in partnership and reach more groups through their grant-making.

Help on Your Doorstep is a charity that aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people in Islington, especially those who are vulnerable and isolated. They work with residents to find solutions to the issues which make life difficult, strengthen communities and enable people to improve their life chances. This grant supports Help on Your Doorstep to identify people who are at risk and provide early support to prevent the need for later crisis intervention.

Coram’s Fields and Harmsworth Memorial Playground is a children’s charity that serves as a safe place for all children to come and play. This grant will support Coram’s Fields in providing an under fives drop-in service for one year in an area where families are faced with poverty and overcrowded accommodation.

Camden Giving is an independent charity working with businesses in the area to overcome local inequality. They run participatory grant-making, enabling local residents to give time, skills or money to inform services in their community. This grant supports the organisation’s Future Change Makers Fund, a participatory grant-making programme through which 16–25-year-olds make decisions on which youth services the organisation funds. Over the next 24 months, Camden Giving will increase its grant spend, develop new youth-led approaches to reporting, integrate a racial justice focus into the programme, and improve its evaluation.

C4WS Homeless Project supports people experiencing homelessness to access housing and employment and to rebuild their lives. This grant provides core funding to support C4WS to build a more sustainable winter night shelter for 2022–23 including support for guests to secure accommodation and employment.

The London Legal Support Trust is an independent charity that raises funds for free legal advice services in London and the South East. They support free legal advice centres through the provision of grant funding, supporting infrastructure of the sector, and helping agencies reduce costs and save money via pro bono or discounted schemes. This grant supports the Trust to carry out research into existing pathways to the advice sector, particularly specialisms in immigration advice, in order to identify gaps in training provision and barriers to work in order to build good practise models, ideas and solutions.