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360Giving

  • Grant amount: £200,000.00 over 60 months
  • Fund: Backbone Fund
  • Date awarded: 2023/24
  • Location: UK Wide

360Giving helps UK funders to publish their grants data in an open standardised way, and supports people to understand and use the data to improve charitable giving. This includes providing training, analysis, research and tools to help people to access and explore the data. 360Giving’s aim is for more money to go to where it is needed most to support communities and causes through a better understanding of the grant-making picture, supporting grant-making in the UK to become more informed, effective and strategic.

Agenda

Backbone Grants 2021/22 - Supporting a thriving civil society

  • Grant amount: £200,000.00 over 60 months
  • Fund: Backbone Fund
  • Date awarded: 2021/22
  • Location: East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber

Agenda campaigns for a society where women and girls fulfil their potential and live free from inequality, poverty, abuse, and violence. They aim to influence policies affecting young women and girls with multiple disadvantage, bringing about practical and systemic change, raising awareness across sectors, and promoting public and political understanding of the lives of women and girls facing multiple disadvantages.

Alliance for Youth Justice

  • Grant amount: £250,000.00 over 60 months
  • Fund: Backbone Fund
  • Date awarded: 2023/24
  • Location: East Midlands, East of England, England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber

The Alliance for Youth Justice (AYJ) brings together 80 organisations to drive positive change in youth justice in England and Wales. Members range from large national charities and advocacy organisations to numerous smaller grassroots and community organisations. The AYJ provides a forum for members to exchange ideas, network and facilitate a community of practice. It also shapes decision-making and policy through the collective influence of its members, by carrying out research, identifying evidence of good practice, and amplifying the voices of children and young people. The alliance aims to promote widespread understanding about the underlying causes of children coming to the attention of the criminal justice system, and champion approaches that enable them to reach their full potential, with young people and the organisations supporting them at forefront of influencing change.

Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families: Schools Division

Backbone Grants 2021/22 - Supporting a thriving civil society

  • Grant amount: £200,000.00 over 60 months
  • Fund: Backbone Fund
  • Date awarded: 2021/22
  • Location: UK Wide

The Anna Freud Centre is a world-leading mental health charity for children and families which has developed and delivered pioneering mental health care for over 70 years. Through its Schools Division, Anna Freud Centre reaches over one million children and young people in schools and colleges each year, by providing resources, training and supporting the workforce, and researching how best to support pupils and students.

Association of Chairs

Backbone Grants 2021/22 - Supporting a thriving civil society

  • Grant amount: £125,000.00 over 60 months
  • Fund: Backbone Fund
  • Date awarded: 2021/22
  • Location: East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber

The Association of Chairs is a membership organisation supporting Chairs and Vice Chairs of charities and social enterprises in England and Wales. They support over 900 members with a unique peer network, providing information, resources, workshops and briefings designed specifically for those in a chairing role, to help them lead their boards effectively and ensure good governance and outcomes for the organisations they lead.

Black Equity Organisation

  • Grant amount: £250,000.00 over 60 months
  • Fund: Backbone Fund
  • Date awarded: 2023/24
  • Location: London

Black Equity Organisation (BEO) is an independent, national Black civil rights organisation created to dismantle systemic racism in Britain, drive generational change and deliver better lived experiences for Black people across the country. They do this through research, advocacy, holding institutions to account, supporting policy and practice within workplaces and legal support, advice, and representation.

British Future

Backbone grants 2018/19 - supporting a thriving civil society

  • Grant amount: £200,000.00 over 60 months
  • Fund: Backbone Fund
  • Date awarded: 2018/19
  • Location: UK Wide

British Future is an independent non-partisan think tank, seeking to involve people in an open conversation that addresses hopes and fears about integration, immigration and identity. Through their communications, strategic advice and activities, British Future seeks to engage those who are anxious about cultural identity and economic opportunity in the UK, as well as those who already feel confident in society, to identify workable solutions. This grant through the Backbone Fund marks a timely, vital contribution to valuable work to strengthen voice in the migration and integration field.

British Youth Council (BYC)

Backbone grants 2018/19 - supporting a thriving civil society

  • Grant amount: £200,000.00 over 60 months
  • Fund: Backbone Fund
  • Date awarded: 2018/19
  • Location: UK Wide

BYC empowers young people aged 25 and under to influence and inform the decisions that affect their lives. BYC supports young people to get involved in their communities and democracy locally, nationally and internationally. Their flagship programmes include UK Youth Parliament, Young Mayor Network, NHS Youth Forum, Youth Select Committee and UK Young Ambassadors. This Backbone Fund grant will support core services and posts, providing stability in a challenging funding landscape for youth voice.

Bureau Local (part of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism)

Backbone Grants 2021/22 - Supporting a thriving civil society

  • Grant amount: £200,000.00 over 60 months
  • Fund: Backbone Fund
  • Date awarded: 2021/22
  • Location: UK Wide

The Bureau Local is a people-powered network setting the news agenda and sparking change from the ground up. Part of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the team collaborates with communities to report on inequality and to uncover new data and evidence that can be used to drive change. They share resources and use innovative techniques to investigate, revealing information in the public interest to challenge power at the highest level. Working closely with local reporters as well as national news partners, they bring widespread attention to systemic failings through stories that matter to communities across the UK.

Campaign Bootcamp

Backbone Grants 2020/21 - Supporting a Thriving Civil Society

  • Grant amount: £200,000.00 over 60 months
  • Fund: Backbone Fund
  • Date awarded: 2020/21
  • Location: UK Wide

Campaign Bootcamp is a rapidly growing charity dedicated to helping to ensure that people most impacted by injustice are leading campaigns that affect their lives, from better housing to fairer treatment of migrants, or LGBTQ+ rights. Their graduates are testifying before Parliament, organising national demonstrations, being elected to local government, changing laws and regulations and waging important, successful campaigns.