Grants database

Rising Stars Support provide holistic support to marginalised young people in London, helping them work towards living healthy lifestyles and achieving fulfilling careers in adulthood. They deliver a variety of activities focused on increasing youth voice and insight. This grant provides core support for Rising Stars Support to influence local decision making, ensuring the insights and experiences of young people are front and centre.

Clan Childlaw is a law centre for children and young people in Scotland that provides free legal representation, outreach services, training and policy work. This grant supports Clan’s leadership to focus on enhancing their service delivery model by creating specialist legal teams (care transitions, siblings’ rights, conflict with the law), diversifying their income away from grants, and investing in internal infrastructure. The organisation will also invest in embedding youth participation in their influencing and policy work and sharing their expertise across the UK to create a legal specialism of being a ​‘children’s lawyer’.

Babbasa is a Bristol based social enterprise that empowers minoritised young people by providing support, opportunities and guidance to help develop skills, confidence, employability and aspirations. Focused on education, career, personal development and entrepreneurship, Babbasa bridges the gap between school and work. This grant will support the organisation to work with partners in Bristol to address the underlying causes of unequal access to opportunities for minoritised young people as part of the OurCity2030 strategic vision.

Runnymede is the UK’s leading independent race equality think tank. This grant supports their campaign, led by his family, for justice for Stephen Lawrence as 22 April 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of his murder.

Positive Money is a research and campaigning organisation who lead on money and banking reform. Their vision is for a money and banking system that serves a fair, democratic, and sustainable economy. They carry out grass-roots campaigns, undertake research, lobbying and advocacy work, and lead an international reform movement. The grant will increase Positive Money’s capacity for work aimed at changing the public narrative on several core topics, and for mobilising the public to pressure decision-makers at key opportunities. It will also help their reactive work challenging damaging narratives, and help fund an expanded team.

Culture Commons support creative organisations and the publicly subsidised cultural sector by bringing cutting-edge research and policy development activity together to co-design policy and influence decision making at local, regional and national levels. This grant will support their work exploring how devolution will affect the creative and cultural life of the UK. The programme will see a steering panel and working groups brought together to propose possible policy solutions for a future UK Government to adopt.

The Alliance Publishing Trust (APT) provides the global philanthropy sector with independent opinion, expert debate and trusted insight, through events, newsletters, and quarterly print and online magazine Alliance. This grant will provide core funding to improve APT’s coverage of global philanthropy, with the aim to make their field more effective, progressive, geographically balanced and including a greater diversity of voices and perspectives.

Young Camden Foundation works to address the growing uncertainty of long-term investment in the children and young people sector in Camden and the need to build more cross-sector partnerships. Their membership of 130+ organisations working in or with communities in Camden includes community centres, sports clubs and supplementary education organisations. Members can access support, training, services and grants.

Women at the Well supports women whose lives are affected by, or at risk of being affected by prostitution. Established in 2007, the organisation has supported communities in Camden, Islington and Haringey for the last ten years. Services are provided to people who have multiple and complex needs including drug and alcohol abuse, mental health difficulties, experience of homelessness and trafficking.

New Horizon Youth Centre enable homeless and vulnerable young people to secure the futures they deserve and the independence they crave. For 360 days of the year, via their seven day a week drop-in service, they provide everything from hot cooked food, showers and laundry, right through to support with advice, finding work and getting housed.

Kings Cross Brunswick Neighbourhood Association (KCBNA) tackles inequality, creates opportunities and transforms lives. Led by local community members, they invest in the development of people as assets for change across three centres and through outreach work. They encourage community participation in decision making, bringing diverse communities and groups together to build belonging and lead community regeneration. They run over 45 services each week for all ages and reach over 2,000 people annually. This grant will support core costs to deliver strategic aims as well as developing their services.

Islington Giving supports projects helping people living in poverty in Islington by raising funds and making grants to groups across three main strands: Investing in Young People; Supporting Families; and Reaching Isolated People. Operating on the principle that everyone can give, whether with their time, expertise, networks or money, Islington Giving brings people who live and work in Islington together to support their local community.