Grants database

Medact, Migrants Organise and the New Economics Foundation plan to build a joint national campaign to ensure everyone can access vital healthcare, regardless of their immigration status. They will work with healthcare workers and migrant communities to challenge hostile environment policies that impose upfront charges on overseas visitors and migrants and risk creating ethical, public health and economic concerns in the way the health system functions. The campaign will combine community and workplace organising with policy development and research.

Hope not Hate uses research, education and public engagement to challenge mistrust and racism, and helps to build communities that are inclusive, celebrate shared identities and are resilient to hate. This project will work with three pilot towns to co-produce then implement policy recommendations that seek to address the feelings of loss, lack of opportunity and economic decline in post-industrial and coastal towns that leads to resentment channelled towards migrants.

EERC provides support to people from Central and Eastern Europe living in the UK. This grant will help EERC to grow capacity to influence change in post-Brexit migration and integration policy.

Doctors of the World aims to ensure that people who are living in the UK are able to access the free healthcare they need, regardless of immigration status. This project will work towards significant reform of current government migrant healthcare policy and practice through evidence-based advocacy, parliamentary lobbying and strategic communications.

Citizens UK organises communities to act together for power, social justice and the common good. This project aims to take Citizens’ migration work to a deeper level by investing in diaspora leaders and developing awareness and action on migration among the wider membership. The project will increase the participation of diaspora leaders in leadership roles within Citizens, and increase the impact that the organisation overall has on migration-related issues.

Privacy International is a charity that works at the intersection of modern technologies and rights. Through this grant, Privacy International plans to explore and test whether having a strong evidence base on invasive data exploitation practices by governments and companies in migration processes can support organisations working on migration and advocating for the rights of migrants to influence authorities/​entities to change their practices.

Global Dialogue promotes human rights and social change through innovative and collaborative philanthropy. This grant will support the delivery of a migration sector-based leadership development programme, which will be piloted over two years. This pilot will test an approach to address the need for leadership development as part of building an effective, resilient migration sector whose leaders better reflect the communities they serve.

British Future is an independent non-partisan think tank, seeking to involve people in an open conversation that addresses hopes and fears about integration, immigration and identity. This grant will support British Future to conduct an independent inquiry on citizenship reform, looking at the aims of citizenship policy in the UK, barriers to securing citizenship and ways it can better promote integration.

Peace First is dedicated to helping young people around the world to become powerful peacemakers. This grant will back a UK pilot programme supporting young people experiencing disadvantage to lead social change through a digital platform that provides tools, resources, mentoring and small grants.

Voices from Care brings young people together throughout Wales, who are, or have been looked after. The organisation aims to provide opportunities, improve the conditions of being in care, promote the view of young people and protect the interests of young people in care. This grant will contribute to the CEO’s salary, enabling her enabling her to work strategically with policy makers, funders, young people and other service providers to respond to identified themes which seek to address the negative life experiences of the care experienced population.

The Larder is a charity that uses cooking and food as a medium to help young people to improve their confidence, reconnect with learning and move into employment. This grant will support the organisation to develop infrastructure to respond to the rapidly growing demand for services, to invest in a new evaluation system, undertake more strategic outreach work and expand facilities.

RJ Working aims to support young people to tackle injustice and respond to conflict positively to create more compassionate, inclusive and fair communities. Through this grant, the organisation intends to scale their offer across Cornwall, aiming to reach all 32 secondary schools in the county and to work in Devon. To support this expansion, RJ Working will invest in evaluation and senior leadership capacity.