Grants database

Comics Youth provides comics-based literacy and wellbeing projects for marginalised children and young people aged 8–25 within Liverpool City Region. Their mission is to provide a voice for hard to reach young people by providing them the tools to express themselves, improve their literacy and speak truth to power through creating comics around community issues. This grant provides an extension to Covid-19 support for the Marginal Activist project, which supports 150 young people to lead and develop a publishing house.

Children and Young People’s Empowerment Project (Chilypep) supports young people to raise awareness of their needs among organisations and service providers. They help them to reach their potential, exercise their rights and have a voice, by building skills and confidence. This grant provides an extension to Covid-19 support for Chilypep’s Youth Led Social Action Studio where young people who experience inequality and social injustice can develop their own campaigns.

Beatfreeks is a youth led company in Birmingham that supports young people to develop skills, confidence and networks through creative activities and events. It also offers programmes focused on social impact and entrepreneurialism. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for REACT, Beatfreeks’ novel approach to working with young people. Through REACT, Beatfreeks will mobilise young people through art activism projects, offer small grants to young people for their campaigns, work with them to amplify the impact and reach of their work.

42nd Street is a young people’s mental health charity in Greater Manchester which supports 11–25-year olds with their emotional wellbeing and mental health, promoting choice and creativity. This grant provides an extension to emergency Covid-19 support for 42nd Street’s Peer Activists as they lead a peer-inspired social action project around social injustice within mental health and social care systems.

StreetDoctors is a volunteer-led movement of young people tackling youth violence. StreetDoctors aims to reduce the harm caused by youth violence by recruiting medical student volunteers to teach targeted groups of young people essential life-saving skills. This grant provides core funding to support strategic and operational growth, and to scale work to train young people at risk to become lifesavers in their communities.

Leap Confronting Conflict is a national charity that aims to reduce youth conflict through the delivery of interactive training for young people and professionals, focusing on prevention, reducing public violence and supporting young people in the criminal justice system. This grant supports Leap to widen and deepen its impact, clarify their purpose, and expand reach and influence through professional and digital training.

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 strategic consultancy support which will allow Youth Access to carry out stakeholder consultation, produce a draft theory of change and develop an aligned high-level evaluation framework.

The Platform Project is a community interest company in Swindon that supports young people who are disengaged (or at risk of becoming disengaged) from education, training and employment. The organisation helps participants to develop confidence and employability skills through a range of different enterprise activities. This grant supports the senior team to develop the Platform Project’s various programmes so that they can be shared more widely with external providers, in response to growing demand. This work will enable the organisation to reach greater numbers of young people

StopWatch works to promote effective, accountable and fair policing. They inform the public about the use of stop and search, develop and share research, organise awareness raising events and provide legal support challenging stop and search. Their work includes legal and policy analysis, media coverage and commentary, political advocacy, litigation, submissions to national and international organisations and community organising. This grant supports StopWatch to employ a young person as a Youth Voice and Participation Lead to assist with the expansion of their youth and community engagement work.

Stop Abuse for Everyone (SAFE) is based in Devon. SAFE supports children, young people, and parents affected by domestic abuse and violence. The organisation offers individual counselling, therapeutic groups, children and families work, and local training and awareness-raising with professionals. This grant supports SAFE to train and support young people to safely share their stories and become peer mentors, contributing to their own and wider sustainable positive outcomes.

Little Hearts Matter provides support when a child is diagnosed with a single ventricle heart condition (SVHD) – essentially half a working heart. This grant supports the charity’s youth programme to strengthen their growing community of heart peers and via its Youth Council, inform clinical research, and improve practice and resources. This will help young members to better understand their condition, reduce isolation and enable them to live more independently.

First Star aims to improve the lives of looked-after young people by partnering with schools, social services, carers, universities and local authorities to ensure young people have the academic, life skills, and support needed to successfully transition to higher education and adulthood. This grant supports the establishment of a First Star programme at the University of Winchester. The programme will provide a cohort of 30 Year 9 looked-after children with monthly sessions and annual summer schools over four years. Through this work the cohort will be supported to build on their strengths, raise their aspirations and fulfil their potential.