Grants database

Doctors of the World aims to ensure that people who are living in the UK are able to access the free healthcare they need, regardless of immigration status. This grant will allow Doctors of the World to play a proactive leadership and coordination role in relation to the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccine. The objective is to ensure that the vaccine programme is equally available to all in the UK, regardless of immigration status.

C4WS Homeless Project supports people experiencing homelessness to access housing and employment and to rebuild their lives. This grant supports C4WS in running a new Covid-secure homeless shelter in Camden over the winter months.

The Baobab Foundation is a new type of foundation that will support, grow and strengthen Black and minoritized communities and community organisations who are led by Black and minoritized people. This grant will support the research and development phase for the new foundation, delivered by a small project team and overseen by their steering group over six months.

Arika is a Glasgow-based political arts organisation supporting connections between artistic production and social change. Arika will use this grant to underpin their ongoing relationships of trust and mutual development with community groups by redistributing funds to those who are not in a position to apply for such funding themselves, and who are working with people who live with increased levels of violence, stigma and destitution, including sex workers, people who have migrated, people seeking asylum and people experiencing poverty.

The Young Women’s Trust supports young women in England and Wales facing poverty due to unemployment or low paid work. Young women are at the centre of the charity’s work from leading and designing to participating. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Year Here is a postgraduate course in social innovation based in London. The course is a platform for entrepreneurs to build smart solutions to social problems and is grounded in the lived experience of those in care homes, hostels and youth services across London. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

What Next? is a free-to-access national movement with chapters all over the UK. They bring together freelancers and small and large arts organisations to inform, debate and shape the future of the arts and culture. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Tempo is a charity which runs Time Credits, a programme in which people earn credits for volunteering which can then be spent on cultural activities, products or services provided by a national network of recognition partners. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Social Ark is a charity based in Tower Hamlets that supports young people from under-resourced East London communities to use their lived experiences to develop social businesses of their own. They deliver team-building activities, business development and leadership programmes to businesses, schools, youth organisations, other non-profits and prisons. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

School of Hard Knocks works to help people to improve their physical and mental wellbeing through sport, group sessions, and mentoring. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Supported by Community InfoSource, Refugees for Justice is a refugee-led campaign group which aims to achieve justice for refugees and people seeking asylum in Glasgow. Their work consists of campaigning for change led by people with lived experience using community organising, strategic litigation, inquiry and campaigning. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Oh Yeah is a dedicated music hub in Belfast which provides affordable rehearsal space, live music venue, music exhibition, café space, recording studio, song-writing room and workshops spaces. Their programme includes talent development, industry mentoring, youth development and community outreach. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.