Grants database

This grant will allow Stephanie to develop a free online training and support network for activists. This programme will provide information and support for change makers, enabling them to collaborate, organise and build solidarity in their social justice work.

Sandy Webb and Leigh Carey plan to work with children and young people who have experienced difficult life circumstances to prototype, produce and share a mentoring programme that focuses on early or post-crisis prevention at community level.

Rebecca Atkinson set up ToyLikeMe to create positive representations of disability for the 150 million disabled children worldwide. This grant will help Rebecca prototype a range of accessories that fit mainstream dolls, using 3D printing. This will allow disabled children and their families to create bespoke toys that better reflect their experiences and help grow positive self-esteem through play.

Paul Cotterill is a councillor and pension fund trustee with wide ranging experience in community and economic development. Through this grant, Paul will prototype a scheme whereby councils and pension funds support Lifetime Savings Account investments for people on low incomes, on the basis of a later ​‘profit share’.

Making Herstory mobilises people of all backgrounds to take action against gender-based abuses and crimes, whilst also working to bridge identified gaps between existing services and wider communities. This initiative aims to investigate the potential of developing a partnership between landlords, student housing and AirBnb clients to provide safe, temporary accommodation to women fleeing abuse and seeking a formal place in a shelter.

Kitchenette Karts is an award-winning street food truck and employability programme. This grant will support them to develop a training and mentoring programme in partnership with Year Here to help young people who are not in education, employment or training to develop their own street food businesses.

AzuKo are a small architecture charity, which seeks to improve lives in areas with limited assets through community driven, research-based design initiatives that are sensitive to local contexts. With this grant it aims to address tenancy insecurity and homelessness. AzuKo will use predictive data analytics to understand the types of individuals at risk of tenancy failure. This information can then help organisations like housing associations and voluntary organisations to strengthen service design to prevent homelessness.

Areeq Chowdhury is the founder of WebRoots Democracy, a youth-led think tank based in London, which aims to harness digital technology to enhance and modernise democracy in the UK. This grant will support Areeq to develop a framework to analyse and compare online voting systems based on their accessibility, usability and security to inform debate around voting reform.

Through a literature review and a workshop with experts and stakeholders, the London Identities project will culminate in the production of a short research paper exploring the concept of London identities, and describing what actions can be taken to forge a stronger sense of shared civic identities.

The Detention Forum is a network of organisations that aims to challenge the UK’s use of immigration and detention which affects undocumented people who migrate and their communities. This grant will allow Detention Forum to deepen collaborations with expert-by-experience groups so that their work shapes the way the organisation operates and its strategy.

This grant will support education charity, Why Comics?, to develop a bespoke comic addressing issues faced by young people without permanent status, in collaboration with Central England Law Centre project Kids in Need of Defense UK. This initiative will explore and test whether comics can help to raise awareness around legal status and legal aid and to build trust with young people and families so that they are better able to access available support.

Media Movers is a pilot programme to test On Road Media’s ​“interaction” method to improve coverage of media relating to young people who migrate. The programme will identify and introduce activists with lived experience directly to journalists. On Road will also design a bespoke media and self-care training course for the network of young activists.