Grants database

Clinks is the national infrastructure organisation for the voluntary sector working in criminal justice in England and Wales. Clinks supports, promotes and represents the voluntary sector working with offenders, ex-offenders, and their families. Their main areas of work are representation and influence, information sharing, and support and development. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Children’s Scrapstore is a reuse charity dedicated to helping businesses divert reusable waste away from landfill/​energy recovery to help improve art and play opportunities for children, young people and adults. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Central England Law Centre provides free legal advice and representation in the areas of employment, family, housing, immigration, money, and discrimination. This grant will support Central England Law Centre to continue their family reunion project, providing quality, holistic support to refugees and their families both before and after arrival in the UK. The project aims to strengthen and integrate the support provided, breaking down unnecessary barriers for families.

British Youth Council is the national Youth Council of the UK. They seek to empower young people to inform policy and influence society through representation in UK Youth Parliament elections, volunteering in youth councils, campaigning, and offering education, training and access to decision-makers. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is a new music ensemble which commissions composers and emerging international talent. They engage audiences through concerts, programmes, tours, workshops for young people and other events. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

B arts (Beavers Arts) is an arts charity working with diverse communities experiencing marginalisation, including people who have migrated, homeless people and those with mental ill health, to promote cultural democracy in Stoke and North Staffordshire. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Part of the Attain Academy Partnership, the Chelmsford Teaching Schools Alliance provides continuing professional development, school-to-school support and initial teacher training across 26 primary schools, eight secondary schools and one SEND school. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

ARC Foundation is a registered UK charity working to improve standards in the refugee status determination processes. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Soul Purpose 360 CIC is a social enterprise created to support Black and other minoritized women to play positive roles in their communities through coaching, mentoring and training. With this grant, Soul Purpose will conduct research and trial a programme that explores the development of coaching, mentoring and personal development workshops, designed specifically for women from diverse backgrounds. Through the pilot, they will establish and grow community-based networks, and create the infrastructure needed to support Black women engaged in community development activities.

Founded by Sarah Shead, Artistic Mutiny is a network of arts and cultural workers seeking to find more equitable ways of working and influence sector change. This grant will support Sarah in sustaining the Artistic Mutiny network and address the issues and inequalities faced by freelancers in the arts and culture sector to create more equitable working conditions.

Founder of Boujie Media, Samantha Fray wants to use her experiences of working in the creating industries, to challenge the lack of Northern Black vision within the sector, acros screen, radio, theatre, dance and art. This grant will support Samantha in creating a training package for young people from across the Leeds City Region who identify as Black and Asian between the ages of 13 and 19 years old. Through this programme, underrepresented young people will gain the skills and support they need to apply for roles within the creative industries.

Reunite Families UK is a support group working directly with cross-border families separated by UK family migration policies. They aim to raise awareness of the impact of the Minimum Income Requirement policy and support those who are affected. This grant will support Reunite Families UK in formalising and growing the impact of the organisation.