Grants database

Mermaids works with and on behalf of transgender and gender variant children and young people in England, Scotland and Wales. It plans to recruit a Volunteer and Events Manager to expand its volunteer team, develop a peer mentoring scheme, extend delivery and significantly enhance its external profile and influence.

Operating from a former nightclub in Dunfermline, Heart and Sound offers a range of creative and youth work activities. Working in partnership with young people and local organisations, Heart and Sound will develop a new youth work hub in the city. The hub will house multiple charities offering sporting and creative opportunities, and give Heart and Sound the space required to meet the increasing demand for its services.

Khulisa works nationwide to support young people to break the cycle of exclusion and crime and transform their lives. A grant will contribute to the salaries of the Development Director, a new Monitoring and Evaluation Manager and an additional facilitator. This grant will enable the organisation to both scale and deepen impact for young people, to strengthen its evidence base and increase its influence on policy and practice in the education and the criminal justice sectors.

Connect: Resound is a model of music education that combines online delivery of specialist musical instrument tuition and live performances with a programme of Continuing Professional Development and Learning for teachers. NYMAZ wants to scale up and embed this approach to enable other music and arts organisations to create their own bespoke online music education offers that respond to local needs.

Tate Exchange is an annual programme that invites the public to test ideas and explore new perspectives, highlighting the value of art to society. This grant supports a one year evaluation activity designed to build on the experience and learning gained from researching and evaluating year one of Tate Exchange (TEX). Year two will focus specifically on gathering evidence of participants’ experiences and the changes the TEX programme brings about for them.

This grant will support London Emergencies Trust to temporarily increase its administrative and casework capacity to deal with the scale and complexity of work involved in providing financial assistance to the injured and bereaved at Grenfell.

The Muslim Youthwork Foundation (MYWF) was established to inform work with Muslim young people and brings together a range of experience and expertise to influence the development of Muslim youth work approaches. This grant will support a series of events, conversations and develop resources and other activities to mark the twentieth anniversary of the report, Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All.

British Future works to change the public conversation about immigration and build a society that is confident, welcoming and fair. This grant will support research into attitudes on key immigration and integration questions following the 2017 General Election. Findings will be disseminated through a workshop and strategic advice paper for those seeking to influence policy and decision makers. Media interventions using the new findings will shape public and media debates on post-Brexit immigration/​refugee protection/​integration policy.

Just for Kids Law is interested in learning lessons from their campaigning and communications activities in relation to a key legal case on student finance for young people whose immigration status meant they were unable to access student loans: R(Tigere) v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills [2015] UKSC 57. The study will examine the ways in which an organisation can plan a strategic litigation campaign on a particular issue and assess the benefits and risks associated with these activities.

Migrants Organise is a platform where refugees and migrants organise for power, dignity and justice. This grant will provide additional support to migrant and refugee communities, leaders and local residents in the aftermath of Grenfell Tower fire.

This grant will support the Coram Children’s Legal Centre’s policy and core work on the regularisation of migrant children in the UK. Coram will undertake policy and capacity-building work with the aim of promoting the rights of undocumented children living in the UK, encouraging young people to seek advice and assert their rights. Coram will and provide the policy backbone and legal advice support to young people and organisations working in the arena with the aim of promoting effective legal routes to permanent status in the UK.

Brighter Futures is an established community of young migrants taking action to make the UK a better place for young people whose immigration status is irregular. Building on mutual support and strong community ties, Brighter Futures will deliver external targeted interventions and encounters that challenge discrimination and influence public debate. The project will provide the necessary infrastructure, resources and partnerships to enable the group to develop their own agenda and have the widest/​strongest possible impact.