Grants database

The Happy Museum supports museum practice that places wellbeing within an environmental and future-facing frame, rethinking the role that museums can play in creating more resilient people and places. This grant will support an enquiry to identify the appetite and potential for continuing the Happy Museum initiative beyond 2020 and if so, its optimal purpose and operating principles.

Encounters Arts aims to provide spaces and processes for people to explore their relationships with themselves, each other, where they live and the wider natural world. This grant supports a pilot study to test an evaluation approach based on participants’ use of language, in the context of participatory practice and climate change.

Right to Remain is a national organisation working to promote and defend the rights of people seeking to remain in the UK. Through this grant, Right to Remain will work to grow and sustain localised hubs of campaigning against immigration detention in the North West, the South and West Yorkshire.

Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX) works to end human trafficking for labour exploitation. Following the Brexit vote, young workers from European Economic Area countries are at increased risk of exploitation in the UK. This funding will support FLEX to gather and use evidence of labour exploitation to inform advocacy and strategic communications work to protect existing and future rights.

Scottish Refugee Council provides advice and support, and campaigns for the rights of refugees and people seeking asylum in Scotland. This project will research the educational and well-being needs of separated young people (aged 16–18) in Scotland. It will also consider how to improve and share Glasgow Clyde College’s innovative ​“16+English for Speakers of Other Languages” programme model with other education providers.

Project 17 works to end destitution among children with unsettled immigration status. This grant will support the organisation to explore scaling its advice and advocacy model and to increase the impact of its policy and campaigns work.

Just Fair advocates for and monitors the protection of economic and social rights in the UK. Through this grant, the Just Fair consortium will create a North East hub to help people to come together to campaign on common social rights and build a social rights community in the region. The project will explore the potential for similar projects elsewhere in the UK.

Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent, charitable foundation committed to bringing about socially just change. This project will test a new coordination and communications model to promote a positive integration agenda in Birmingham and the Black Country, and to support the effective settlement of people who have migrated to the UK. The project aims to bring together local evidence and experience to influence policy.

Based in Penzance, Treyla supports young people experiencing disadvantage to build confidence and self-esteem. Through this grant, it plans to replicate its long term, one-to-one mentoring programme throughout the organisation and across Cornwall. It will also use emerging evidence and learning to shape and inform local and regional policy.

Rochdale Connections Trust provides a range of services and early interventions for young people, including mentoring, coaching, one-to-one work and counselling. This grant will fund the CEO’s salary, enabling the organisation to develop and expand its services, whilst building organisational sustainability.

Kidstime Foundation will employ a Chief Executive Officer to increase the reach and impact of support for young people affected by parental mental problems.

The Isle of Wight Youth Trust provides counselling and programmes focusing on mental health and youth advocacy. This grant will help the organisation to increase capacity, move to a more suitable space and to influence policy and practice across the island.