Grants database

Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) will host the Strategic Legal Fund for Vulnerable Young Migrants, a small grants programme that has been in operation since 2011 aiming to support voluntary sector organisations and legal agencies to take strategic legal action in areas affecting children and young people who have migrated. They will administer the applications process, make grants and monitor and evaluate their outcomes, as well as lead the strategic direction of the Fund.

The Community Support Project will continue to work with the Home Office to enable the release from indefinite detention of young ex-offender migrants, and will provide intensive one-to-one case management to support them to reintegrate into the community. This second phase of the project will share learning from the model to engage and support NGOs, institutions and policy-makers in the UK and elsewhere in Europe to develop similar ​‘alternatives’ projects, working towards reducing reliance on detention.

The new Citizenship and Integration Initiative (CII) aims to bring together funding from a number of independent foundations, to work closely with the Mayor of London to advance the shared goals of encouraging active citizenship and participation, celebrating diversity and building inclusive shared identity in London. With this grant, an independent learning and evaluation partner will support the delivery of this initiative, and share the learning with other UK cities and wider civil society.

Through this grant, JUSTICE – a law reform and human rights organisation – will establish a working group on immigration and asylum to make recommendations to government as it seeks to modernise the justice system as part of a £1bn digital reform programme. The working group will research, generate, and evaluate proposals for a complete re-think of how the immigration and asylum determination process works in the UK.

Action Foundation’s initiative, Learning English Together (LET), will equip churches and other community groups to provide English language support for migrants who face barriers to accessing formal ESOL provision. Action Foundation will develop a social franchise model, providing training, support and resources for small volunteer-run groups to enable them to help migrants and refugees to learn English through practical activities facilitating integration.

New Horizons in British Islam engages in critical discussions around Muslim identity, tradition and reform to provide a positive vision of what it means to be Muslim today. To strengthen integration so that communities can live well together, the organisation seeks to use arts and culture to cultivate different perspectives of Islam in Britain. This grant will support a part-time Art Co-ordinator to explore this idea and will fund an activities budget.

RightsInfo will test and evaluate a targeted digital media approach to public education and engagement on human rights, with a focus on migrants’ rights. Translating methods used in private sector marketing, they will test the effectiveness of a behaviour change model that is designed to shift views amongst ​‘neutral but persuadable’ groups. It will be tested in two cities that voted leave and remain in the European Union referendum.

Clarity Impact, part of Clarity Intelligence, is a mobile app and online platform that gives social organisations a simple way to map their day to day social impact. Aggregating and visualising data over time, it gives stakeholders internally and externally an instant view of an organisation’s impact and progress. This enables impact investors to easily identify organisations with potential for growth and influence and gives founders better daily information on what to optimise.

Advantages of Age seeks to research, develop, test and pilot a training programme aimed at men and women, ages 50 and up, who have been made redundant from employment and are seeking to fulfil their potential through new career opportunities. Their mission is to empower mature entrepreneurs to create a business suited to their skills and experience with the potential to succeed in today’s tough economy. The Academy will host monthly sessions with industry experts, provide opportunities for peer-to-peer support and will offer a web portal containing additional assets and links.

Jonathan Hartley has a background in teaching, entertainment and using technology in performance. He is committed to sharing his digital and technical skills to create a programme that blends technology with play, supporting intergenerational groups to learn and share their skills with one another. With the support of 4 Steps CIC, Jonathan will create a ​‘Tinker Lab’ designed to inspire, engage and develop the technological skills of the local community in Burnage.

Callum Curry is a young entrepreneur and member of the Global Shapers movement, whose vision is to invigorate public engagement in politics. He has developed SUSSD, a social platform and app linked to Facebook that allows people to have their say on real issues scheduled for debate or discussion in their local area. It also allows local decision makers to gauge public opinion in real-time to help inform their work. This grant will support Callum to develop an android version of the app and to test its organisation portal with two councils in Belfast and Lisburn.

Supporters Direct Scotland (SDS) is a member-owned Community Benefit Society that supports conversion of privately owned sport clubs to community ownership with a view to tackling community and social issues. SDS aim to create a Community Sport Fund. This will provide much-needed capital (raised by community shares) to increase the number of community-owned sports clubs, and help those in existence to develop their assets. This grant will develop this idea to operational stage.