Paul Hamlyn Foundation

The Bevan Foundation develops new, practical ideas to make Wales fair, prosperous and sustainable, working with people affected by inequality and injustice. This grant supports Bevan to explore and test new ways of involving people with lived experience of migration in policy development, influencing and decision-making in Wales.

People & Planet is the largest student network in the UK campaigning for social and environmental justice. Through this grant, the organisation will explore and test whether a youth-led divestment campaign is an effective strategy to remove the social licence of companies running the UK’s immigration detention facilities.

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.

Act Build Change supports people and organisations to build power, develop leadership and care for relationships. They aim to make community organising accessible to all and build a network of leaders committed to justice. This grant enables Act Build Change to develop a programme of collective training shaped by and for the migration sector. This training focuses on three key areas: development of training offer and staffing; fostering clarity of approach via research and collaboration; and organisational development.

Action for Race Equality (ARE) works to end race inequality for Black, Asian and mixed heritage communities. This grant provides funds for ARE to deliver a programme of rapid small grants to support grassroot organisations responding to immediate need, with a focus on keeping the issue visible in public, media and politics via cultural interventions and strengthening these civil society organisations in the Windrush space. An advisory committee, including lived experience leaders, will support the programme.

Action Foundation provides opportunities for people who have migrated to overcome exclusion and poverty by providing housing and English Language support. This funding will enable Action Foundation to develop a fully integrated data management/CRM system, and build dedicated staffing capacity and capability to optimise the use of this new IT facility. This will help them develop robust internal data management processes and maximise their reach, effectiveness, sustainability and external influence.

Action Foundation’s initiative, Learning English Together (LET), will equip churches and other community groups to provide English language support for migrants who face barriers to accessing formal ESOL provision. Action Foundation will develop a social franchise model, providing training, support and resources for small volunteer-run groups to enable them to help migrants and refugees to learn English through practical activities facilitating integration.

African Rainbow Family (ARF) is a not-for-profit organisation that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersexual and queer (LGBTIQ) people of African heritage and from wider Black and Asian minority ethnic groups. This grant will fund a Campaign & Communications Officer to enable ARF to increase their capacity to raise awareness and campaign for justice, focusing particularly on ending deportation and detention of LGBTIQ people seeking asylum in the UK.

African Rainbow Family is a not-for-profit organisation that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender intersexual and queer people of African heritage and from wider Black, Asian Minority Ethnic groups. Manchester Migrant Solidarity is a self-help group set up as a convergence space for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, offering practical and social mutual support, empowerment and solidarity. This grant will provide both organisations with core support to develop their campaigning work.

UK BME Anti-Slavery Network (BASNET) is a member network charities and community interest companies led by and working in diaspora and racialised communities to address modern slavery and human trafficking across the UK. This grant will support BASNET to: build members’ research capabilities and capacity; influence policy and practice; continue forming lasting strategic partnerships to diversify the modern slavery space increasing inclusivity and access to more research opportunities; counter the harmful ‘illegal migrants’ narrative; provide a dedicated space for members to utilise self-advocacy; and provide extra mental wellbeing to support BASNET members. The funding will also contribute towards AFRUCA’s broader emotional counselling support for staff, as BASNET’s host organisation.