Grants database

The Ulster Orchestra’s mission is to enrich people’s lives through touring, regular broadcasts, concerts and learning and community engagement programmes. The project will explore and test the impact of a ​‘relaxed’ approach to delivering music workshops and concerts for people with autism and learning disabilities and their families.

Scene & Heard work in Somers Town in London, an area of high deprivation, providing one-to-one, creative mentoring for children aged 9+. They will test a new style of project for older participants enabling them to deepen relationships with returning members aged 14–16 and explore how local partnerships enhance project delivery.

UpRising is a youth leadership charity aiming to open pathways to power for talented young people from diverse and under-represented backgrounds. This grant will increase the capacity of the central management team in preparation for further growth in reach, rolling out of the ​‘Find Your Power’ programme and social franchising of the Uprising model.

Sylfaen Cymunedol Cyf is a bilingual community development organisation specialising in the Sustainable Livelihoods approach to supporting young people in North West Wales. This grant will fund the two existing posts to continue work with young people in Bangor and Caernarfon, to replicate the Sustainable Livelihoods programme and to raise awareness of the approach locally and nationally. Sylfaen will improve evidence of its impact and build income generation to support sustainability.

Switch Up uses sport to encourage young people and children to stop their involvement in gangs, crime and drugs. This grant will allow Switch Up to increase its organisational capacity by renting a private office and gym. It will develop more effective management systems, in particular monitoring evaluation and communications, to enable it to better articulate impact and enhance its influencing and fundraising work.

Northern Ireland Youth Forum (NIYF) is a youth-led voluntary organisation delivering projects across Northern Ireland, whilst also promoting youth voice in decision making. It has a membership of over 4,000 young people, aged 11–25. This grant will fund the Director to fundraise for and develop existing and new collaborations and programmes. It will also enable NIYF to increase its representation on decision making forums, grow its social enterprise and establish a NI Youth Congress.

The Mental Health Foundation works to promote good mental health and improve the lives of people affected by mental health issues. This grant focuses on the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition, which is hosted by the Foundation and is a leading campaigning and policy body connecting over 100 organisations. It will support the existing Coalition Coordinator and Policy Lead to increase the Coalition’s influence in shaping children and young people’s mental health support at a national and local level.

Empire Fighting Chance is a Bristol-based charity, which uses non-contact boxing and intensive individual support to inspire vulnerable young people to make positive changes in their lives and improve their mental health. This grant will allow Empire Fighting Chance to increase its impact by: replicating its approach in other regions, starting in South Wales and raising awareness and spreading learning, specifically around the power of sports and coaching to address mental health needs.

Counterpoints Arts supports and produces arts by and about refugees and migrants. It aims to ensure that their contributions are recognised and welcomed in the UK. This grant will support Counterpoints Arts to explore, test and evaluate new place-based, arts-led approaches to bringing people together and fostering integration in areas experiencing high levels of inward migration: Blackburn, Halifax, Wakefield, Nottingham and Newcastle.

Centre for Global Development (CGD) works to reduce global poverty and inequality through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community. This grant will support CGD to explore bold, new migration and integration policy options for the UK government in light of the UK’s decision to leave the EU, in consultation with expert stakeholders. These will be presented to government officials and others in positions of influence to inform progressive change in migration and integration policy.

Citizens UK organises communities across the UK to act together on social justice issues. This project is a partnership between Citizens UK, the Migrants’ Law Project at Islington Law Centre and Bhatt Murphy Solicitors, which will support individuals trapped in the Calais Refugee camp and further afield in Europe, who have settled family in the UK to apply for their asylum claims to be heard by the UK.

Society for Rural Urban and Tribal Initiative works towards social change at the grass roots level across rural and urban India, through its Fellowship programme. It is committed to empowering marginalised people to lead a dignified life with access to livelihood, resources, rights and justice. This grant will take the learning from the first two phases, which focused on building linkages between collective action initiatives and panchayats with eight fellows in three states, and expand this practice to all of SRUTIs 21 fellows in 10 states.