Grants database

Migrants Organise is a shared organising platform for refugees and migrants acting together for justice. This grant supports the employment of core staff to organise migrants and refugees, building the campaign for Fair Immigration Reform; an ambitious movement for systemic change to end the hostile environment and overhaul immigration policy.

The Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) is a professional association and registered charity, the majority of whose members are barristers, solicitors, advocates and OISC-regulated advisers practising in all aspects of immigration, asylum and nationality law. This grant supports the expansion of the Strategic Legal Fund that advances justice for people disadvantaged and discriminated against because of their migration status.

Asylum Justice is a charitable organisation in Wales that offers free specialist legal advice, assistance and representation to asylum seekers, refugees, and other vulnerable migrants. This grant supports Asylum Justice to scale their service delivery model while making greater use of the findings from their casework to demonstrate how the current legal aid and immigration system is failing people who migrate to the UK. By expanding capacity, they will continue to provide quality advice and casework services whilst generating the evidence base needed for advocacy.

Youth Access is the membership organisation for a national network of Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services (YIACS). They champion young people’s right to access local, high quality, evidence-informed advice, counselling and support services. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for the ​‘Our Minds, Our Future’ campaign. Youth Access will make improvements to their Rights Advocates Training Programme by developing, testing and implementing new approaches to delivery and develop an innovative digital learning platform in order to deliver training flexibly online.

Voice of Young People in Care (VOYPIC) is a regional organisation that promotes the rights and improves the lives and outcomes for children and young people in care in Northern Ireland. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for Shake It Off, a programme that supports young people with care experience to lead social action projects and engage others in social action through a membership scheme.

UpRising is a youth leadership charity aiming to open pathways to power for talented young people from diverse and under-represented backgrounds. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support to fund the post of Campaigns and Engagement Officer. The postholder will engage and support UpRising’s leadership programme alumni in ongoing social action as well as coordinating local networking and campaigning hubs. This work will help to strengthen the longer term impact of UpRising’s work for young people and social change.

The Winch is a North Camden charity which offers a ​“cradle to career” pipeline of group and intensive one-to-one activities for children and young people aged 0–25 and their parents. It aims to maximise personal and material wellbeing and ensure positive relationships for all children and young people in North Camden. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for two youth-led campaigns that will equip young people experiencing disadvantage with the means to lead social action, and effect real change on systems currently failing young people.

The Warren is a well-established youth charity, based in Hull. It offers a variety of services including an open access youth space, counselling, music service with associated record label, active LGBTQ and young women’s groups and sexual health advice. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for ​‘The Thing’, the youth-led empowerment and governance structure at the heart of The Warren. The grant also funds a part-time Empowerment Support Worker; a part-time Digital Media Campaign Facilitator; and additional resources around marketing, publishing and mental health support.

The Hummingbird Project provides services in Brighton and Sussex for unaccompanied young people seeking asylum or with refugee status. This grant will support the organisation to further consolidate the Young Leaders Programme and enhance support and opportunities for graduates of the programme. They will also form an organisational Youth Board and share learning from the programme nationally.

The Advocacy Academy is a charity based in London which supports marginalised young people to understand and tackle the social issues that directly affect them. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for a new, full-time Programme Director post. The post holder will focus on the development and scaling of the organisation’s Social Justice Leadership Fellowship programme, creating a replicable and scalable model and recruitment strategy. This will help to give the Academy extra capacity to focus on strategic development and expansion.

Trefnu Cymunedol Cymru/​Together Creating Communities (TCC) uses community organising principles to bring together a variety of groups including community groups, faith groups and schools to create long-term community cohesion in North East Wales. This grant provides an emergency extension of Covid-19 support to expand TCC’s youth and community organiser post, providing training and support for young leaders to run strategic campaigns on the issues affecting them.

Praxis supports migrants to have a voice, live in safety, meet their basic needs and overcome the barriers to integration. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support to Brighter Futures, an established peer community which facilitates young people impacted by immigration policy to change the way the world sees them by reducing negative perceptions amongst the young UK population.