Grants database

Gramin Vikas Sanstha (GVS) works to build the capacity of communities to improve education, health and local governance. This project aims to strengthen the livelihoods of landed households by giving them input on organisational farming practice and by establishing a system for the certification of organic produce. This grant will support GVS to help landless households to work common lands, to mobilise farmers into common interest groups and to create opportunities for training and entrepreneurial activities.

Gramin Samasya Mukti Trust (GSMT) works to improve development and capacity building in rural and tribal communities, with a particular focus on livelihood, health and education. Over the last two years, GSMT helped ten villages develop and implement conservation and management plans and set up nodal institutions in these areas. Through this second phase grant, GMST aims to build the capacity of community leaders, increase local technical expertise and to expand its work to 200 new villages.

Gramin Adivasi Samaj Vikas Sansthan (GASVS) aims to address education, health and livelihood issues in Sausar. GASVS has developed a community-based mental health system to confront local misconceptions surrounding mental health conditions and learning disabilities. Through this grant, GASVS will work to create a network of community volunteers and to connect individuals with appropriate government schemes and livelihood interventions.

The Association for Social and Human Awareness has worked for over a decade to improve the lives of people in Jharkhand, focusing on education, health, migration and the empowerment of women. In its second phase of support, this programme aims to prevent unsafe migration and to increase local awareness of trafficking, particularly among young people.

Anjali works with government to encourage the systemic reform of mental health services. This grant supports the widening of Anjali’s Voices programme, an institution-based, capacity building initiative working to reintegrate recovered individuals within families and the job market. Successfully implemented at the Pavlov Mental Hospital in Kolkata, Anjali will introduce the Voices programme at the Institute of Mental Care in Purulia.

Clore Social Leadership works to develop leaders with a social purpose to enable them to transform their communities, organisations and the world around them. This grant will fund the core work of the programme and support the organisation in developing a membership offer, enabling a digital transformation and increasing reach.

Clinks is a membership organisation that supports, represents and campaigns for the voluntary sector working with people in or at risk of entering the criminal justice system. This grant will support the core services of the organisation.

The Cultural Learning Alliance (CLA) is a collective voice working to ensure that all children and young people have meaningful access to culture. The Alliance aims to develop and advocate for a coherent national strategy for cultural learning; unite the education, youth and cultural sectors; showcase excellent projects and practice and demonstrate why cultural learning is so important. This grant will support the core services of the organisation as they focus their campaigning work around employability, careers and wellbeing, over the next five years.

What Next? Is a movement bringing together arts and cultural organisations across the UK, to articulate, champion and strengthen the role of culture in our society. We work together and seek alliances beyond the cultural sector to become a catalyst for fresh thinking and new policy ideas. Through advocacy, campaigning and collaboration we engage people in different conversations about how and why arts and culture are important.

Liberty is an independent organisation that campaigns for civil liberties and human rights in the UK. Liberty works to protect basic rights and freedoms through the courts, in Parliament and in the wider community through a combination of test case litigation, public campaigning, parliamentary work, policy analysis and the provision of free advice and information. This grant will support the core services of the organisation.

NEON is a network of over 1,600 UK organisers from 900 different civil society groups. They run training programmes and support campaigns to build the strength of movements for social and economic justice. This grant will support the core services of the organisation.

The Centre for Youth Impact supports all those involved in the design, delivery, funding and evaluation of provision for young people to understand and improve the impact of their work. The Centre works with a community of organisations across the UK to advance thinking and practice in evaluation and impact measurement, and empower them to build a movement of peer support and shared interests, creating positive change in the lives of young people. This core support will strengthen the executive function of the organisation and allow the Centre to focus on embedding good practice and actively changing behaviour.