Grants database

This grant provides support for a pooled fund to increase the access to and the capacity, coordination and quality of immigration advice in the UK.

We Belong is a youth-led organisation, designed to support, train and advocate for young migrants who call the UK their home. Through this grant, young people will be given opportunities to set the agenda via community organising tools and to advocate for immigration reform.

Freedom from Torture works with survivors of torture to help them begin to rebuild their lives. Through this grant, the organisation aims to open dialogue between migration sector leaders and the Home Office, and to support a peer advocacy and activism programme for people with lived experience of the immigration system.

The Committee on the Administration of Justice is an independent non-governmental organisation and a full member of the International Federation for Human Rights. Through this grant, the organisation support policy development on migration and integration in Northern Ireland as the UK leaves the European Union.

Asylum Matters works in partnership locally and nationally to improve the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum through social and political change. By mobilising and coordinating local, regional and national advocacy work, Asylum Matters aims to increase the impact of campaigns to secure improvements to asylum and immigration policy and practice. This grant will support the work of Asylum Matters’ team of expert staff based in locations across England and Wales.

Camden Community Law Centre’s solicitors, caseworkers, and volunteers provide and deliver free and independent legal advice, assistance and representation in housing, welfare benefits, asylum, immigration, and employment law matters. This grant will provide core funding to support operational costs of the Public Interest Law Centre based at Camden Community Law Centre.

People & Planet is the largest student network in the UK campaigning for social and environmental justice. Through this grant, the organisation will explore and test whether a youth-led divestment campaign is an effective strategy to remove the social licence of companies running the UK’s immigration detention facilities.

HEC works with schools to promote a global perspective on equality, justice and sustainability in a multicultural and interdependent world. This grant will support HEC to set up a Migration and Integration course to incorporate into and align with the Department for International Development’s and British Council’s Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning programme.

Foxglove works to address human rights abuses driven by use of mass-data. This grant will support the organisation to research and use strategic litigation and public communication to raise awareness, shift debate and influence government and corporate policies regarding the use and acquisition of algorithmic decision systems by public bodies in the migration context.

EdAid partners with educators to drive student enrolment, increase retention, and diversify revenue, while lowering costs for students. Through this grant EdAid will explore and test the feasibility of using loans delivered through an online platform to support citizenship and limited leave application fees for children and young people.

Amnesty International’s Human Rights Consortium Scotland will explore and test how new collaborations across Scotland’s migration sector can secure rights for people who have migrated to the nation, through advocacy and by influencing the government’s development of an enhanced human rights framework.

My Life My Say aims to empower young people to participate in democracy, by creating spaces for dialogue across communities and generations, and by providing young and socially excluded citizens with the tools to lead change within society. This grant will support My Life My Say to deliver on and offline activities to drive voter registration ahead of the November 2019 general election.