Grants database

Public Interest News Foundation (PINF) works in partnership with colleagues in the UK and around the world to understand the unique contribution that independent news providers make to society. They use this research to design and deliver programmes that build the capacity of independent news providers and improve public understanding of their work. This grant supports a new model of local media that speaks to, for and with communities across Northern Ireland. Building on a pilot project in Newry, PINF will work with local communities to shape and support their vision for local media that is both economically and socially sustainable.

Enact Equality are a non-profit organisation working to advance racial justice and equality in the UK. This grant supports their work fostering race equality and anti-racist education, increasing and enhancing arts access and participation, improving migration policy and supporting Windrush communities, and empowering young people, especially those who are marginalised, or whose voices are often erased or ignored.

Civic Square is a Birmingham based organisation with a bold approach to visioning, building and investing in civic infrastructure for neighbourhoods of the future. They build on Impact Hub Birmingham and deliver programmes to reimagine the Public Square, host a Neighbourhood Economics Lab and nurture a creative and participatory ecosystem. This grant provides core support for Civic Square’s second phase of development.

The Decelerator will support civil society organisations to design closures, mergers, CEO transitions, programming ends, and all sorts of endings as part of the everyday life of organisations. New Constellations is hosting this work in its initial testing phase. The intention is to show funders and partners how better endings can make a world of difference.

The Social Change Agency works to support people and organisations focused on social impact. Through the Social Change Nest, they help new grassroots movements grow by providing essential start-up support to unconstituted and people-powered networks. This grant will support them to examine possibilities for better outcomes for people on benefits around payment for involvement. It will also allow them to build out a community of practice and improve the action of payment for involvement going forward.

Social Justice Collective (SJC) are a women and non-binary people of colour collective of organisational change professionals, bringing together their values, expertise, and experiences to build social justice. This grant will fund SJS to pilot an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Practitioner Circle to build and accelerate sector-wide capacity for EDI and social justice. This will be achieved by providing a programme of learning, expert support, resource, action learning, and collective strategizing for people doing EDI work across civil society.

ShareAction exists to make investment a force for good. Their vision is of an investment system that truly serves savers and communities, and protects our environment for the long term. This grant will allow ShareAction to host a guest lecture from Professor Sir Oliver Hart, Nobel Laureate for Economics, on the social responsibilities of financial institutions in the modern economy.

Hajar Press is an independent anti-racist publishing house. This grant provides core funding to enable them to achieve their aim to open a space for writers of colour to create experimental work, and to build political community through subscriptions, events and partnerships.

Future Foundations UK is a community of People of Colour working in philanthropy in the UK. This grant will support FFUK to grow and develop their membership offer through delivering wellbeing and networking activities, reviewing their strategy and goals in close collaboration with members, and further develop the network, including longer-term fundraising.

S.M.I.L.E‑ing Boys project is a research-led arts and wellbeing organisation working with Black and Global Majority boys in London. The project was created as a direct response to the rise in youth violence, working directly with schools using photography, poetry, creative writing and film to empower participants to explore themes around race, identity, masculinity and mental health. This grant supports the organisation to sustainably scale up their offer to meet the increased demand for the programme in 20 more boroughs of London. They will also work to co-design the S.M.I.L.E‑ing girls programme in readiness for a pilot in 2024.

Grimm & Co are a literacy charity that champions the writer in every child. They build confidence, self-esteem and skills in both workshops for schools and in out of school and holiday clubs. This grant will support Grimm & Co to work with 17 primary schools in Rotherham and Sheffield, further developing and embedding their high-quality drama-based storytelling and creative writing practice. Grimm & Co will work responsively and collaboratively with schools to meet needs and priorities and develop teachers’ Literacy teaching practice and curriculum approaches.

Electric Medway’s goal is to foster a sense of community in Chatham and the wider Medway area, giving locals access to digital technology, art and a vehicle to share stories. This grant enables Electric Medway CIC to test the use of digital art and immersive storytelling to support pupil engagement in art, history and geography in non-selective schools in Medway, Kent.