Grants database

Phosphoros Theatre makes political theatre performed by refugee and asylum-seeking actors. This grant provides core funding to support Phosphoros in the next phase of their development working with refugees and asylum seekers to create and perform socially engaged professional theatre, alongside youth participation and training. This includes embedding leadership by people with experience of forced migration across all areas of the company, further deepening their co-created approach and progression routes, and forging new strategic partnerships.

Brighton People’s Theatre (BPT) aims to provide theatre for all through workshops, performances and research. This grant will support BPT’s strategic development by enabling the theatre to expand their weekly provision of activities across Brighton, increase internal capacity and take more of a leadership role in its local cultural ecology.

Project 17 works to reduce destitution among families with no access to mainstream welfare because of their immigration status. This project will expand and develop Project 17’s policy and campaigns work, led by people with lived experience of no recourse to public funds. Working in partnership with Praxis Community Projects, Project 17 will recruit a new role to develop this work.

Privacy International aims to protect people’s privacy and human rights from abuses of governments and companies using invasive surveillance technologies and data-driven systems. Working in partnership with the migration sector, Privacy International will work towards protecting the digital rights of people who migrate to the UK, exposing, scrutinising and challenging abuses in the immigration enforcement system.

Praxis Community Projects is an East London charity working with people who have migrated and are negatively affected by UK immigration policy. Praxis will draw on their expertise of working with non-immigration accredited and grassroots organisations to build their knowledge and capacity to better identify people with immigration issues, and improve their ability to respond and make better referrals to appropriate immigration providers by developing infrastructure that supports collaboration.

NACCOM is the UK-wide ​‘No Accommodation Network’ which seeks to prevent destitution among people who have migrated to the UK by increasing accommodation provision, and by fostering systemic change. This grant will provide core support to NACCOM to deliver their strategic vision across key areas including: members’ sustainability, experience-led support, and positive policy changes.

Migrant Action is an advocacy and rights organisation providing information, guidance, advocacy support and direct practical assistance to vulnerable people who have migrated. This grant provides core funding to enhance Migrant Action’s capacity to provide emergency and recovery support to vulnerable migrants living precariously as well as to increase the capacity for grassroots mobilisation and campaigning against hostile environment policy.

KIN aims to bring Black activists and organisers together from across the UK to collaborate, strategise and support each other. This grant will support KIN’s work on empowering and amplifying the voices of Black migrants within the UK Black community. KIN will build relationships, facilitate dialogue and platform leaders with lived experience to build better community cohesion and enhance the support for migration system reform within and beyond the black community.

Young Harrow Foundation (YHF) supports the local voluntary sector to build capacity, increase funding and develop effective partnership working for the benefit of children and young people. This grant will allow YHF to develop, expand, and embed its local collective-impact model ​‘Change Champions’ long term, with young people leading the agenda for youth support in Harrow.

ThinkForward is a long-term coaching programme that prepares young people for the world of work. This grant will support ThinkForward to review and coproduce a new ​‘essential skills framework’ with young people. This will also feed into the development of ​‘Move Forward’, a new programme for young people with learning disabilities.

Working in partnership with six primary schools in Scotland, Step It Up will look at the different ways teachers can use dance and kinaesthetic learning to support and challenge pupils in deprived areas to achieve their potential. This project will develop teachers’ confidence, skills and knowledge. Using practical sessions and blended continuing professional development and learning, 18 teachers and two dance artists will take part in an experiential learning journey led by pedagogy, reflection and evaluation. Working with teachers and school leaders, Step It Up aims to improve engagement, attainment and overcome barriers to learning.

This project aims to enhance the use and value of film-based learning across the curriculum for primary schools in the town of Hawick in Scotland, working in partnership with Alchemy Film and Arts. Workshops, practical exercises, sharing networks and robust evaluation will support and energise teacher-participants to develop the skills and confidence to effectively use digital teaching methods in the classroom. The programme will establish methods of sharing and sustained knowledge exchange between the teachers and their respective schools, reaching out locally, nationally and globally.