Grants database

Ditch the Label supports young people who have been negatively affected by bullying and prejudice. Their vision is for young people to be more knowledgeable, resilient and supported to thrive. Funding will support the organisation to reposition their brand and offer to focus on ​‘youth empowerment’ rather than ​‘anti-bullying’.

Abianda is a social enterprise that works with young women affected by gangs, and provides training for the professionals who work with them. This grant will support Abianda to grow their commercial work and provide paid employment opportunities for former service users.

The Social Change Agency aims to provide new funding and support models for a new breed of community networks and activists. Building on work funded through a grant through the Ideas and Pioneers Fund, the agency aims to support new grassroots movements to grow through a new incubation and acceleration service Nest.

The Opportunity Trust is a partnership between PHF and Blagrave Trust to pilot directly supporting up to 30 young change makers for 18 months through two cohorts. The pilot will provide basic income and project costs for campaigns or social enterprise ideas that the young people have conceived of, with the support and engagement of host ​‘agent’ charities.

School of Hard Knocks is a national charity working in England, Scotland, and Wales. The organisation offers a combination of sport, group sessions and mentoring to help participants improve their physical and mental wellbeing. This grant will pilot the integration of a psychology-based behavioural support offer into the schools programme in Wales. Learning will be used to inform organisational development and expansion.

Royal Caledonian Education Trust is a Scottish charity, supporting children and young people whose parents are in the Armed Forces, or are veterans. This grant will support the organisation to expand their Youth Participation Programme with two new Regional Participation Officers focusing on more remote areas of Scotland and increasing the number of young people engaged. This will allow the Participation Manager to focus on strategy and wider influencing and ensure that the learning from this work reaches key decision and policy makers.

LGBT Youth Scotland is a national charity that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex young people aged 13–25. This grant will enable the organisation to enhance the scope and quality of their volunteering scheme, and to expand a digital youth work offer to reach more young people in remote parts of Scotland.

Future Men is a London-based charity that supports boys and young men who are at risk of exclusion or in the criminal justice system, to becoming dynamic and healthy future men. Through this grant, Future Men aims to develop the organisation’s partnership model, profile and income diversification.

In 2021 Coventry will host events that shine a spotlight onto the city and its communities and act as a catalyst for change in the cultural landscape and in other non-cultural sectors. This grant provides support for Coventry UK City of Culture 2021, particularly underpinning two of the programming themes – Collaborative City and Caring City.

Project Sparks is a programme in which musically-gifted, disabled young people work alongside experienced arts specialist teachers to teach music and dance to Keystage 2 classes and their teachers, in three primary schools in Derry. The project aims to break through the prevailing barriers towards understanding disability and to improve the quality of music and dance education in the schools.

Bristol Music Trust develops the programme of music and events at Colston Hall, and works to support young people through music education activities in Bristol and the South West. As part of a major strategic redevelopment, Bristol Music Trust will expand the organisation’s informal learning offer to co-create long-term participatory and performance programmes with a range of communities in the city who experience least access to the arts.

This grant will support the 2020 London Borough of Culture programme to embed an enhanced cultural offer and improved infrastructure in the borough. Funding will support key staff in the Borough of Culture team and contribute to the Young Ambassadors programme, which aims to develop future cultural leaders who will feed into decision-making, strategy and delivery.