Grants database

This grant will support the development of the Recovery Advisory Committee, which aims to find ways to give a voice to the Essex drug and alcohol community to support recovery, respond to changing needs and create a culture of openness.

This grant will support John Ng to pilot a mobile counselling service for people experiencing disadvantage. ​‘Capsule 1’ will travel to different council estates in the Borough of Kingston Upon Thames and offer the opportunity for local residents to drop in and offload their problems and express themselves.

Building upon their own experiences and passions, Martin and Edward are seeking to explore the potential of training deaf people, across different regions of the UK, to improve accessibility to the visual arts. This grant will support them to develop a programme to train local deaf people to deliver visual arts talks through British Sign Language to improve access and participation.

Creative Treaty currently delivers human rights training sessions to schools, colleges and businesses in areas of London. Through this grant, Creative Treaty will develop a new human rights education programme for children and young people using creative methods and collaboration as tool to support participants’ understanding of human rights and community cohesion.

UnLtd supports social entrepreneurs with bold solution to today’s challenges to realise their potential. This programme aims to place leaders with lived experience at the heart of social change, giving them the power to deliver their own innovations, govern UnLtd’s mission, values and strategy and influence change in the social sector.

It’s Not Your Birthday But celebrates the power of connecting with others through letters, words and visual arts. This grant will support the organisation to establish new partnerships and to support the development of an initiative that champions the handwritten word as a means of connecting people and communities.

Institute for Voluntary Action is an independent charity that works closely with people and organisations striving for social change. This grant will support the organisation to enhance and improve support and funding practices for the use of tech by small voluntary organisations.

This grant will support the Association of Chairs to develop and deliver core training and webinars tailored to the needs of Chairs of social purpose and not-for-profit organisations.

Just for Kids Law works with and for young people to ensure their legal rights are respected and promoted, and their voices heard and valued. The grant will support Just for Kids Law to commission a case study to tell the story of how their Let Us Learn project led by young people who migrated to the UK became an independent charity, We Belong, and to share learning from this process.

HOPE not Hate use research, education and public engagement to challenge mistrust and racism, and help build communities that are inclusive, celebrate shared identities that are resilient to hate. This grant supports the production and dissemination of ​‘Fear & HOPE 5’, a comprehensive survey and analysis of attitudes of modern Britain, and to provide briefings to policy makers, politicians and civil servants in the migration and refugee sector.

Refugee Action works with refugees and asylum seekers to build new lives in the UK. This grant will support the organisation to expand the reach and impact of an immigration advice project that supports individuals and organisations to secure and maintain accreditation with the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC).

Central England Law Centre provides free specialist legal advice to those most in need and use legal processes to fight social exclusion. This grant will support the development and growth of Kids in Need of Defense UK, which provides advice and represented to children without secure immigration status.