Grants database

Afghan Association Paiwand helps refugees, asylum seekers and people who migrate to the UK to settle and thrive in their new home. This grant will provide the organisation with core funding to support their work.

Women for Refugee Women will work in partnership with Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) Manchester to deliver a programme to build the capacity of refugee women in London, Greater Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and Coventry to tell their own stories. The project aims to empower refugee women to take a leading role in campaigns to address the issue of destitution, engage with new audiences through public events and influence the media, increasing support for changes to asylum policy and practice.

IMiX works to strengthen the strategic communications capacity of the migration, refugee and integration sectors. This grant will enable IMiX to provide expert advice, respond rapidly to key issues in the media, improve horizon scanning, foster collaboration and build alliances beyond the sector.

The Good Faith Partnership is a social consultancy that works with senior leaders across all sectors to discover and design innovative solutions to society’s most difficult problems. This grant will fund a secondment from Good Faith Partnership into the office of the Mayor of Bristol to support the development of a city-wide strategy for migration and integration.

Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST) works to create a more responsive, resilient and digitally-enabled social sector, supporting non-profits to embed digital, research and design-led approaches and working with sector leaders, funders and government. This programme will see CAST partner with the Cardinal Hume Centre to develop a digital service that provides scalable and transparent immigration advice.

Youth Focus: North East is a regional youth charity, providing support to the youth sector across the North East, and working directly with young people. This grant will support the organisation to explore options for working differently to provide robust regional infrastructure and support investment in youth services in the North East.

YoungMinds has been working to improve the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people for 25 years. It aims to empower young people and parents to be a force for change by championing their voices to influence policy and practice, provides advice and guidance, supports and trains professionals, and fosters innovation and inspires excellence in practice to achieve transformed and integrated services. This grant will provide core funding alongside an annual package of support towards strategic and operational development and growth, in particular to consolidate and invest in infrastructure and capacity to ensure sustainability.

StreetDoctors is a volunteer-led movement of young people tackling youth violence. StreetDoctors aims to reduce the harm caused by youth violence by recruiting medical student volunteers to teach targeted groups of young people emergency life-saving skills and encouraging them to make informed choices. This grant will provide core funding alongside an annual package of support towards organisational development and growth plans. Investment will achieve a transformational change to scale up work and achieve sustainable growth.

Redthread is a youth work charity focused on well-being and delivering pioneering work in youth violence intervention. This grant will support the organisation to create capacity for development, explore their potential as a change agent focused on violence as a public health issue, and build readiness for investment.

Based in Manchester, RECLAIM supports working-class young people to be seen, be heard and lead meaningful social change. The programme ensures young people develop confidence and are self-reflective and critical thinkers. This grant will support leadership transition, and contribute to continued core delivery and organisational stability and sustainability.

MAP supports 11–25 year olds across Norfolk to make a successful transition to adulthood, through advice, counselling and youth work. This grant will provide core funding alongside an annual package of support towards organisational innovation, development and growth. Investment will achieve youth driven and led growth in service delivery and influence.

Leap Confronting Conflict empowers vulnerable young people to make changes in their lives by supporting them to gain a greater understanding of themselves and their relationship with conflict. Leap designs and delivers training programmes for young people, organisations and professionals working with them and supports policy and practice changes that respond to young people’s needs. This grant will support organisational growth and development as part of the Growth Fund annual package of support.