Grants database
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Strategic Partnerships for Migrant RightsHaringey Migrant Support Centre
Haringey Migrant Support Centre (HMSC) runs weekly services for migrants, regardless of background, providing free advice and casework on immigration, welfare, housing and community care. This grant will allow HMSC to develop its capacity to contribute to strategic litigation and policy work. It will also work collaboratively with other frontline organisations in the migration sector to build a network to share best practice, information and learning, improve co-ordination of services and amplify the voice of migrants in London.
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Strengthening Migrants and Refugees Right to HealthcareDoctors of the World UK
Doctors of the World UK fights to reduce health inequalities by improving access to healthcare in the UK focusing on long-term systemic change. This grants supports them to develop their advocacy and engagement work, through gathering evidence of the impact of migrant health and immigration policies on undocumented migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, and developing ‘expert by experience’ (EBE) led policy solutions. Work will also take place with an EBE advisory group to identify advocacy priorities, and invest in upskilling the group to act as professional advocates, focusing on navigating the parliamentary system and policy making processes and speaking to the media.
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Core grant for strategic growthAct Build Change
Act Build Change (ABC) are a fast-growing community organising school with a focus on accessibility. Their mission is to make community organising accessible to all and build a network of leaders committed to bringing about forms of justice at different intersections, with collective care as a core strand of their training. This grant will provide ABC the opportunity to focus on core strategic growth, collaborate with smaller, specialist migrant collectives, support larger organisations to influence better on systemic changes, and run a free programme of their standard care sessions twice a year.
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The Windrush Act
Windrush Defenders Legal
Windrush Defenders Legal (WDL) provides free independent support and advocacy to the African Caribbean community, particularly the Windrush Generation, while actively contributing to a just and equal society where everyone’s rights are protected. This grant will support them to create or amend legislation that restores the citizenship of the Windrush Generation and their descendants, and repairs the damage done to community cohesion by racially disproportionate immigration law enforcement.
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Network Expansion and Impact of Minimum Income Requirement on Children
Reunite Families UK
Reunite Families UK (RFUK) is a lived experience-led organisation, working with and supporting families affected by the UK spouse visa rules and the Minimum Income Requirement. This grant will support RFUK to gather more evidence of short and longer-term forced separation on the mental health of individuals, especially children, through network expansion, research and policy advocacy. Funding will provide staffing costs for a part-time Manager, a part-time Co-production Coordinator and external evaluation.
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Future Stories: Narrative Leadership for the World we Need
PIRC
Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) supports movements for social, racial, economic and climate justice in order to map, develop and strengthen compelling narratives that transform policy, systems and culture. This grant will cover core support towards PIRC’s lived experience-led narrative change project. The work focuses on cross-issue, root-cause, movement-building approaches to narrative work by training 15 lived experience leaders on priority issues including migration, racial justice, LGBTQ+ liberation, climate justice and poverty.
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Migrants in Culture, Design Services for a Migrant Movement 2022–24
Migrants Organise
Migrants Organise bring immigration detainees and communities together to create and perform powerful music, increase wellbeing, and change attitudes to migrants. This grant will provide core funding to develop their artistic programme with Migrants in Culture, a migrant-led design agency. The programme aims to improve the wellbeing of all participants; put people with lived experience of detention on public platforms where they will be seen, heard and recognised; and raise awareness of detention, and help change public attitudes.
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Patients Not Passports: Healthcare For All
Medact
Medact organise health workers to take action on the structural barriers people face to health equity and justice. This grant will fund Medact in partnership with Migrants Organise to build the national ‘Patients Not Passports’ campaign which aims to ensure that everyone can access healthcare, regardless of their immigration status. They will work with healthcare workers and migrant communities to challenge NHS charging regulations at local and national levels, combining community and workplace organising, along with advocacy, research and legal strategies to achieve policy change.
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EU Citizens’ rights – Influencing and communications programme
the3million
the3million is a campaign organisation for EU citizens in the UK, formed to protect the rights of people who have made the UK their home. This grant will part fund the3million’s communications, research and legal/policy analysis and parliamentary engagement and policy influencing functions.
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Sustaining Grassroots Empowerment
South Riverside Community Development Centre (SRCDC)
South Riverside Community Development Centre (SRCDC) is a community development charity, which aims to address deprivation, facilitate civic engagement and build social cohesion in the South Riverside and nearby areas of Cardiff. This grant will enable SRCDC to recruit a community organiser and two community connectors who will co-produce an influencing model with the support of Bevan Foundation. Through this work, SRCDC will develop an action plan that aims to strengthen civil society relationships in Wales and resolve tensions by listening, offering support and fundraising for joint work.
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Independent Race and Migration Correspondents Network Sheffield Pilot
Opus Independents Ltd
Opus Independents creates platforms for independent information and communication, which amplify voices within the local economy, voluntary, community and campaign sectors. This grant will fund a specialist community correspondent to research and report on issues related to migration and race in Sheffield and South Yorkshire for its existing independent media platform, Now Then Magazine. Through this work, Opus also plans to support local advocacy and campaigning for migrant rights and share practice and learning with a UK network of independent media.
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Improving advocacy in the EU Advice sector
New Europeans UK
New Europeans UK (NEUK) supports vulnerable EU citizens and their family members to obtain and manage the immigration status that they require to continue living and working in the UK. Since 2021, NEUK has coordinated the EUSS Alliance, a coalition of more than 80 advice organisations serving EU citizens. This grant will help NEUK grow its strategic functions and address the lack of influencing capacity among EU citizen-focused civil society organisations. It will collect evidence and data generated by members of the EUSS Alliance and expand its research, policy and advocacy work to establish the need for specific support for EU citizens.