Grants database
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Seeds of Resistance (SOR)Rumpus Room
Seeds of Resistance (SOR) is an anti-racist project being developed by young People of Colour and their allies, supported by two community artists at Rumpus Room. The group will create an arts and social action project connecting with their own personal lived experiences, the stories of colonial resistance they have grown up with and the legacies of global solidarity movements. The project will amplify voices of the young people involved, cultivate youth empowerment and foster broader anti-racist and climate justice awareness across their communities.
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Supi & Kink: Workshops for QTBIPOC and Disabled CommunitiesSupi & Kink
Supi & Kink provides trauma-informed, community-driven workshops for Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous People of Colour (QTBIPOC) and disabled individuals. This grant will support the provision of trauma-informed, curated workshops and educational resources that support individuals to explore their identities, gender, grief, sex, rage, and pleasure. By offering a safe environment for exploration, Supi & Kink aims to build a community where marginalised individuals can safely unpack their experiences of mental health, distress, trauma, and pleasure through a lens that addresses gender, racial, and disability justice.
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Rooted in culture: South Asian collective advocacy for changeVoices of Colour (London) CIC
South Asian women in the UK often face multiple layers of discrimination, including intergenerational trauma, racial bias, gender-based violence, and economic challenges, which are compounded by a lack of culturally relevant support services. This grant will support Voices of Colour to research and co-design a community-driven, healing-centred approach to addressing systemic inequalities faced by these groups. They will engage South Asian women with practices to address individual experiences of trauma and collective experiences of systemic inequalities to enhance their capacity for collective advocacy.
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Women retrofitting OX4
Transition by Design Cooperative CIC
Transition by Design Cooperative propose to create a community plan for how to retrofit homes in OX4 in Oxford, exploring areas such as: connecting with tenants’ unions to see how power can be transferred to residents, mapping skills within the community, building on social networks, partnering with local organisations and understanding local supply chains. Their plan will detail what people genuinely need and the organisation will work collectively with the community to work out how to achieve this.
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Addressing harm in the music industry
Addressing harm in the music industry
Ideas and Pioneers Fund £20,000 East of England, East Midlands, London, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, UK 2025The music industry is a volatile environment that operates with an uneven distribution of power. This grant funds a period of exploration into the support that is needed to address allegations of harm-doing and provide healing and restorative justice principles in small-scale music industry organisations that currently do not have pastoral services in place. The aim is to protect and advocate for individuals and upskill organisations in transformative justice processes and anti-oppressive behaviours, with a secondary purpose of redistributing power in the music industry.
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Radical South Asian Futures
The ROT Collective – Revolt, Organise, Transform
Ideas and Pioneers Fund £20,000 London, North West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, Scotland, Wales, UK 2025The ROT Collective is a volunteer-led radical South Asian collective creating space for resistance, solidarity and transformation. This grant will enable them to explore building power, knowledge and leadership in South Asian communities. They plan to do this by initially hosting a festival of events to bring together the community and build on the legacies of radical South Asian organising in the UK. They will invite past and present organisers and activists to host workshops, discussions, talks, care spaces, collective learning groups, art practices and more.
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Transformative Justice Program
Reproductive Justice Initiative CIO
Reproductive Justice Initiative aim to design and deliver a transformative justice program to work with individuals involved in inappropriate relationships, abuse of power, or non-consensual sexual acts within Birmingham’s music and creative scene. By addressing the root causes of harmful behaviours, the project will focus on accountability, education, and behavioural change. Reproductive Justice Initiative will use this funding to conduct research into outcomes of restorative justice programmes, including looking at other community-based harm reduction and harm prevention methods and approaches that already exist.
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Home and Beyond: Refugee-Led Humanitarian Networks
Refugee Biriyani & Bananas
Refugee Biriyani & Bananas want to empower refugee, asylum-seeking, and diaspora communities in the UK to lead humanitarian initiatives that address the unique challenges they face locally and globally. This grant supports the testing and development of their “Community Humanitarian Leaders Programme” (CHLP) in the UK to create a sustainable model for refugee-led humanitarian work. They will conduct research to map community needs, skills, and opportunities, and create a framework for supporting those who wish to help their own communities, whether in the UK, their home countries, or along migratory pathways.
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A Revolting Class
Redistribution Network Organising Group
The Redistribution Network Organising Group is a network of social movement organisers working-class backgrounds across the UK. They aim to build power in social movement spaces by collaborating with other working-class organisers, and creating a curriculum which taps into the expertise of their lived experience and the analytical skills gained from it. This grant supports research, analysis and development of a training program and educational materials to deliver a pilot working-class leadership program.
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Connecting the Disconnects Across Care in the UK
The Data Rainforest
The Data Rainforest is a tech start-up and social enterprise focused on transforming access to services for young people and adults. Their goal is to create a unified, person-centred digital platform that connects the disconnects in the quality and delivery of care for young people and young adults. By using advanced technologies and innovative methods, such as data and system integrations, real-time communication, and analytics and feedback, they will build an adaptive ecosystem that plans, manages, and delivers quality care tailored to the needs of the individual, with the aim to set a new standard for effective and humane care delivery. Funding will be used towards developing and testing The Data Rainforest through user engagement, platform development, regulatory compliance, and building partnerships.
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Fostering transformative conversations
The Justice Deck
The Justice Deck is a discussion-based card game featuring questions divided into three sections focused on Transformative Justice. The game is designed to foster transformative conversations around harm, justice, and reconciliation by encouraging dialogue between different social groups, including both oppressors and marginalised communities. This grant will fund the testing and refinement of the game, focusing on engaging grassroots social justice organisations, practitioners, and marginalised groups.
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The UK’s first Fund for survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
The Survivors’ Fund
Ideas and Pioneers Fund £20,000 East of England, East Midlands, London, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, UK 2025There are an estimated 11 million survivors of child sexual abuse in the UK, the majority of whom are never identified or provided support by agencies or charities. This grant aids the development of the UK’s first Fund by and for survivors of child sexual abuse. The grant would enable conversations and convenings with survivor-activists across the UK, and conversations with grant-makers, to shape the grounding principles, structure, approach and priorities of the fund. The fund aims to recognise, uplift and champion survivors who play a key role in delivering peer-support, challenging the silence around child sexual abuse and working for change.