Grants database

Founded by Olubusayo Abidakun, Impact Black is a social enterprise that helps people from Black and other minoritized backgrounds develop their leadership capabilities while using their time and talents to empower their communities and address race inequality. With this grant, Impact Black will support people to develop their professional and leadership skills by working with organisations on a project around racial justice or empowering ethnic minority communities. Impact Black will help racial justice organisations to meet their goals whilst also empowering people to realise their agency and create positive social change.

Founded by Nicky Rose, Growing Me is a social enterprise that helps care-experienced children explore their life stories, providing a framework to create life story books. This grant will support the development of a prototype Growing Me app and book, and virtual home workshop kits to test them with care-experienced families and supporting professionals.

Neurodiverse Self Advocacy Partnership is an advocacy group by and for neurodivergent people who provide peer-to-peer support to empower autistic adults in harnessing talent, overcoming barriers, and achieving equality in employment, relationship, and wellbeing. This grant will support the organisation in testing the effectiveness of peer mentoring for autistic people in retaining jobs through online employment mentoring and support.

Part of Khidr Collective, Khidr Comix Lab is a space for storytellers interested in comic arts, words and illustration. They support Black, Brown and Muslim creators to build upon a canon of comix artists and to experiment, innovate and publish new work. With this grant, Khidr Comix Lab will launch a pilot programme for a small group of early-career British Muslim artists, providing them with a tailored programme of workshops. This programme aims to broaden the pool of Muslim artists contributing to all sections of the written arts in the UK.

Firesouls specialises in creating digital tools to help councils and community-based organisations collaborate and deliver services. Through their platform The Social Value Exchange, they work with local government to leverage spending with their suppliers to compel and create additional community benefits. Through this grant, Firesouls will explore whether they can re-purpose their approach to maximise energy reduction in response to climate change, where the more energy reduction suppliers deliver to local government, the more contracts they win.

Curo Carers is a community-led support organisation providing resources, tips and guidance to the caring community. They create support tools and services for carers in the workplace to improve health and wellbeing. This grant will support the implementation of Curo, a digital carers concierge service which allow carers to access advice and information through their community of specialists including GPs, financial and legal advisors and mental health professionals, as well as providing practical direct support.

Founded by Charlene Prempeh, A Vibe Called Tech is an initiative that raises awareness of technologies that disproportionately affect the Black community as well as developing projects where tech can be employed to create positive change. Through this grant, Charlene Prempeh wants to create a platform that creates an ongoing conversation with the Black community on their lived experiences of technology and provides information on new technologies being developed that might affect them across health, employment, urban planning and facial recognition.

Micro Rainbow runs safe houses for LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees and delivers a programme of life skills, employability support and social inclusion in London, Birmingham and Leeds. This grant will support Moving Together, an online dance and movement arts engagement programme with integrated pastoral support. Informed by residents’ feedback, the project actively seeks to introduce a positive, movement-based and social opportunities for residents at a challenging time.

D6: Culture in Transit are visual arts producers and policy advisors who promote the role of artists and value of the arts in the sustainable development of neighbourhoods, communities and the planet through research, commissioning, and presentation. D6 will deliver the North East’s first Studio of Sanctuary for artists who are refugees or seeking asylum in the region. D6 will launch a new cross-sector network that will support, create and embed more equitable and sustainable arts engagement practices in the North East.

Artistic Directors of the Future (ADF) aims to demystify the role of artistic directors and senior executives, and empower and celebrate Black, Asian, Middle Eastern and ethnic minority talent to challenge the status quo in theatre and the arts industry. This grant will support ADF through a period of strategic development and growth, and go towards the delivery of two new leadership initiatives: ADF Innovators and a Leadership Think Tank.

The UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group (UKLGIG) supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or intersex (LGBTQI+) people through the asylum and immigration system. This funding will enable UKLGIG to start a national campaign for reform of the asylum and immigration system that transcends the refugee and migration sector. The campaign aims to galvanise a whole new supporter base: the LGBTQI+ community by ​‘mainstreaming’ messages and campaigning on asylum and immigration into this community.

Stop Funding Hate (SFH) is a community-driven human rights campaign, based on a philosophy of open, inclusive and participatory campaigning. This grant will underpin SFH’s capacity building programme, which supports individuals and organisations to employ SFH’s innovative campaigning model via training and second tier support; enable SFH to further embed within communities and movements; grow their impact through partnerships and underpin their growing influencing function.