Grants database

Youth Initiatives specialises in long term, relationship based, youth empowerment work in areas of high social need in Northern Ireland. This grant will support the organisation to develop and implement a new youth practitioner network, create platforms to amplify the voices of young people and clarify staff leadership progression and roles.

Peace First is dedicated to helping young people around the world to become powerful peacemakers. This grant will support Peace First’s Youth Investment Fund. Over the next two years, the fund aims to create 500 youth led changemaking projects, distribute 100 mini grants, provide comprehensive support to youth led projects, scale eight projects through accelerators and deliver storytelling and an evaluation of the UK based work.

South London Refugee Association (SLRA) is a front line community organisation providing specialist advice and support to refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants who are at risk or in crisis because of past trauma or restrictions related to their current immigration status. SLRA wants to further develop its partnerships with Merton and Southwark, to support work with care leavers who have insecure immigration status.

Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PAFRAS) works with asylum seekers, refugees and local communities in Leeds and the surrounding areas. This grant will support PAFRAS to deliver a programme to influence the systems in Yorkshire for supporting care leavers with insecure immigration status.

Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) exists to advise, support, represent and campaign with people subject to immigration control. Through this grant GMIAU will use a range of approaches to policy and communications to show how Hostile Environment policies affect children, young people and their families in the North West, and propose solutions to injustices caused by immigration problems at local authority level and regionally to inform national policy change.

The3million is the largest campaign organisation for EU citizens in the UK, formed after the 2016 EU referendum to protect the rights of people who have made the UK their home. Through this grant the3million will monitor, influence and hold to account the UK’s implementation of the citizens’ rights parts of the Withdrawal Agreement through policy development, working with partners, and undertaking advocacy and legal action where appropriate.

Bristol Refugee Rights aims to uphold and champion the human rights of asylum seekers and refugees. This grant will support the second phase of their project to influence systems in Bristol for care leavers with insecure immigration status.

MakeBelieve Arts is a theatre and education charity, offering programmes to develop the creative, communication and literacy skills of children. Through this grant MakeBelieve Arts will expand the reach of both their Helicopter Stories and Poetry Basket programmes, which improve the communication and early literacy skills of children aged two to six in both mainstream and special schools.

RECLAIM is a youth leadership and social change organisation that works to support and amplify the voices of working class young people. This grant allows RECLAIM to continue their core work supporting young people through the pandemic and to develop a new project bringing young people together with cultural leaders, policyworkers and teachers.

Detention Action (DA) defends the rights and improves the welfare of people in detention by supporting individuals and campaigning for change. This grant allows DA to sustain their Community Support Project and to build on their progress in policy and practice around immigration detention.

Based in Belfast, Black Box is a culture and entertainment venue that runs creative activities in collaboration with local artists and arts organisations. This grant supports core costs and allows Black Box to continue their implementation of an empowering user-led approach to support arts engagement for learning disabled people.

Fevered Sleep is an arts organisation that focuses on challenging social relationships through performance, installations and other art mediums. This grant will allow Fevered Sleep to develop and adapt live participatory projects that address lived experience of trauma during the pandemic, and to continue partnerships that support artist wellbeing.