Grants database

Bal Sakha Assam works to improve the health, education and wellbeing of children and families across rural areas and tea gardens in Assam through community-based activities. The organisation aims to build a socially conscious system of managing labour in tea gardens by working with management teams and training social advisors. This grant will support Bal Sakha Assam to introduce a programme for students pursuing courses in Tea Management Training Institutes and to develop online modules for tea garden employees.

Amhi Amchya Arogya Sathi (AAA) works to build the capacity of communities experiencing marginalisation. This initiative supports disabled people in Nagpur and Vidarbha to increase their skills and employability and access relevant resources and information. The third phase of funding will allow AAA to set up social enterprises and assemble an association of disabled people to play an active role in helping their members access services, entitlements and psychological support.

YoungMinds is a leading UK charity working to improve the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people. They provide advice and guidance for young people, a parents and carers helpline, support and training for professionals, and research and policy work. This grant extends core funding alongside a package of support towards strategic and operational development and growth, in particular to consolidate and invest in infrastructure and capacity to ensure sustainability.

Just for Kids Law supports vulnerable young people with multiple complex needs from crisis to stability and into independence through a unique model of holistic representation. This grant extends core funding to support strategic and operational growth, particularly to grow impact through policy and influencing work.

Coram’s Fields and Harmsworth Memorial Playground is a children’s charity that serves as a safe place for all children to come and play. This grant will support Coram’s Fields in providing an under fives drop-in service for one year in an area with poverty and overcrowded accommodation.

Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action (CIVA) is an innovations centre founded in 1995 to develop, pilot and fund new ideas for addressing social problems. With this grant, CIVA will research and develop the case for a grater delegation of power through the creation of a £12.5m BAME-led investment fund to change longstanding racial inequalities in the cultural sector.

The Pears Foundation is an independent, British family foundation rooted in Jewish values. They promote understanding of key issues through research and education programmes, particularly with young people. This grant contributes to a partnership between Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Pears Foundation in the form of a pooled Youth Club Fund.

Northern Ireland Youth Forum is a youth-led charity that represents the voices of young people to government and other decision makers. This grant will support core funding and allow the organisation to focus on fundraising, supporting staff, and leading on the adaptation to new digital and hybrid ways of working during the pandemic.

Based in Bradford, Mind The Gap (MTG) is the UK’s largest learning disability theatre company. This grant allows MTG to extend their Engage programme for an additional year following interruptions due to the pandemic. Through Engage, they will progress their partner venues beyond the need for specialist interventions in order to better include learning disabled artists, audiences and participants in their work long-term.

MAIA Creatives is a Black-led, Birmingham based, artist-led organisation, focused on supporting creative practice, community building, critical thinking and social change. This grant provides MAIA Creatives with time and capacity to undertake business planning and adaptation, and develop a revised fundraising plan for 2021/22 onwards.

Glasgow International (GI) is Scotland’s biennial festival of contemporary art. This grant offers core support to festival staff and ensures the running of the festival’s weekend performances, events and commissions as it recovers from the impacts of the pandemic.

Based in Belfast, The Duncairn delivers live music, workshops and participatory arts events. This grant will support The Duncairn in increasing their capacity to ensure continuity of a new digital content programme for the local community; better support volunteers and staff; and create stability to engage with longer term planning through the continuing Covid-19 crisis.