Grants database

Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) supports movements for social, racial, economic and climate justice in order to map, develop and strengthen compelling narratives that transform policy, systems and culture. This grant will provide PIRC additional funds to cover increased staff and project costs resulting from the increased cost-of-living.

The Migrants’ Rights Network (MRN) works alongside migrants in their fight for rights and justice. This grant will support MRN’s core work, including supporting the development of cross-sector alliances and campaigns across social justice issues, strengthening their analysis on intersecting forms of oppression and the migrant experience. They will facilitate events, workshops and cross-sector meetings and engage with media to support change in the language and narrative around migration.

The Meliore Foundation works with global philanthropic funding partners to support programmes which educate and encourage fact-based discourse at community, societal, commercial and policy-making levels. This grant will support their focus on migration, allowing them to establish new narratives around migrants and support UK migrant justice campaigners with strategic communications. It will also fund strategic communications support for the newly formed Investor Working Group on Migration, Climate Adaptation and Finance.

Here for Good is a strategic legal charity that aims to plug the gaps in advice provision where there is no legal aid available, such as the EU Settlement Scheme and the Ukraine visa schemes. This grant will support Here for Good to gather case studies, conduct research, and share expertise, allowing them to advocate for change and influence Home Office engagement through their legal work and strategic litigation.

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (GDWG) supports people during and after immigration detention through practical and emotional support by volunteer visitors and advocacy by the staff team. This grant will allow GDWG to build on its ​‘Walking Inquiry’ model and will enable them to collect evidence for their policy advocacy and influencing work towards ending detention. This work will include an exhibition, local walks and events, led by their Self-Advocacy Group of people with lived experience of immigration detention.

Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) provides legal advice and representation in bail matters to people detained under immigration powers. This grant will support their revocation project, which aims to secure justice for those unjustly exiled from the UK while shifting the narrative around deportation. Funding will enable BID to develop a communications strategy which will complement the work they are doing with individual clients to revoke their deportation orders and ultimately enable them to build an evidenced based campaign for fundamental reform of the deportation system, which will be created and led by those directly affected by deportation.

MYTIME supports young carers aged 5 to 18 and provides weekend breaks at their Retreat in Dorset, a Memory Making Programme and Schools Support Programme to improve educational attainment and affect a more equitable transition to adulthood. This grant will support the continuation and growth of their Level Up Programme. Through this programme, MYTIME work with schools to create supportive and inclusive educational environments where young carers can thrive.

GirlDreamer educates, elevates and empowers marginalised young women of colour to become agents of change in their local communities. This grant will support the next phase of development work at GirlDreamer, putting in motion an important shift of power, influence and representation to evolve from a lived experience grassroots organisation to one with the potential and ability to influence systemic and institutional change for young women of colour.

Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT UK) is a leading children’s rights organisation working to protect children from trafficking and transnational exploitation. We support children everywhere to uphold their rights and to live a life free from abuse and exploitation. This grant will help them to strengthen and design their policy and advocacy work by placing youth participation at the centre, and support them to influence improvements to the rights and protection of victims of trafficking.

The Bytes Project works with vulnerable young people in Northern Ireland, using youth work and technology to help transform their lives. This grant will support Bytes to upgrade its Positive Sparks platform —an innovative digital listening platform designed to give young people a tangible voice within communities and society. They will also invest in promoting the platform to young people across Northern Ireland and supporting them to add data.

Who Cares? Scotland supports care experienced people to have their voice heard. The Five Nations, One Voice Alliance is a partnership between charities working to promote the rights, strengthen the voice and improve outcomes for care experienced children and young people at a national level across the UK and the island of Ireland. Partners include Who Cares? Scotland (Scotland), Become (England), Voices of Care Cymru (Wales), Voice of Young People in Care (Northern Ireland), and Empower People in Care (Republic of Ireland). This grant will support the Alliance to strengthen their partnership to create more opportunities for shared learning, identify opportunities to collectively influence policy and public attitudes, and to facilitate exchanges between care experienced children and young people.

The Challenging Behaviour Foundation (CBF) works to ensure people with severe learning disabilities whose behaviours challenge, and those who care for and support them, have their needs met. This grant will contribute to CBF’s work to support young people with severe learning disabilities between the ages of 14 and 25 who are transitioning from child to adult services across their information and support, strategic influencing, and sharing best practice activities.