Grants database

The Winch is a North Camden charity which offers a ​“cradle to career” pipeline of group and intensive one-to-one activities for children and young people aged 0–25 and their parents. This grant will part-fund the salary of the Chief Executive as The Winch seeks to consolidate good practice following a period of rapid growth. In particular, it will free him to further develop The North Camden Zone, a collective impact approach to working with children and young people, and to plan the charity’s move to a major new youth community venue in the area. This builds on the organisation’s work as a leader in applying impact measurement to open-access youth work. It worked with approximately 450 young people aged 11–25 last year.

Vi-Ability uses the motivational power of sport to tackle unemployment among disengaged 16–24 year olds. Having spent five years refining its model and testing out replication in London and India, Vi-Ability is laying the groundwork for geographic expansion. Following extensive pro bono support, it aspires to reach 200 clubs in up to 10 countries within three years. It is trialling new income generation strategies, including corporate training and a smartphone game. This grant will provide support towards the salary of a COO, to help steer the organisation and realise opportunities to expand.

Spark Inside is the only specialist provider of life coaching for young people in or leaving prison in the UK. This grant will fund the salary of the CEO. This would provide stability and security to enable Spark Inside to work with more young people (300 a year), effect widespread systemic change influencing the culture in prisons, develop new ideas and share learning and best practice.

StreetDoctors aims to reduce the harm caused by youth violence by recruiting medical student volunteers to teach targeted groups of young people emergency life-saving skills. This grant will support the organisation’s growth to be active in 18 cities by 2018, through supporting the salary of the Medical Director sabbatical position. The work enables young people to intervene if first aid is needed and to understand the consequences of violence.

Kidscape is a national charity supporting, advising and training children affected by bullying and the adults who support them. Kidscape will reach 15,000 young people in the North West, working in partnership to deliver the PACS (Positive Assertive Confidence Skills) programme into existing provision. It will target young people who have disengaged from school, who are exhibiting challenging behaviour and who are particularly vulnerable; young carers and looked after children. This grant will support a Director of Services post to implement this work.

Fully Focused is a youth-led media organisation, using the power of issue-based film to positively impact the lives of BAME young people. This grant will enable the organisation to employ a new Youth Participation Officer and a new Content Manager, as well as secure its own office space. This will enable it to reach more young people and deepen engagement. This investment will also free up capacity for the Creative Director to strategically develop the organisation and grow commissions.

Football Beyond Borders is an education charity, based in South London, which uses football to support marginalised young people to raise attainment and aspiration, reduce risk of school exclusion and have their voices heard. This grant will part-fund the salary of the Head of Delivery to double the reach of its Schools Programme in London and widen its reach outside London by developing work in Cardiff and Birmingham.

The Big House (TBH) supports care leavers and at-risk young people through life and employment skills development, drama and pastoral care. This grant will fund a new post of Operations Manager enabling TBH to maintain the quality of its core offer, whilst developing new projects, including TBH Means Business (an income generation scheme) and a 2017 tour of its work around the UK. This will also allow the Artistic Director to focus on the artistic elements of programme development and delivery.

The Frontline Immigration Advice Project will offer a tailored capacity development programme for frontline destitution support organisations: enabling them to provide OISC advice. This will expand the number of organisations outside London providing general immigration legal advice, enabling specialists operating at Level 2 & 3 to work more effectively. Building on work that has been operating since December 2015, this project addresses the fragmentation of immigration advice provision. It will link immigration advice providers and refugee and migrant support organisations, to facilitate cross sector collaboration through improved signposting, referral pathways and immigration advice skill development.

Migrants Organise aims to trial its new model of community organising in four regions of the UK. It will identify, train and mentor 100 migrant and refugee leaders in community organising and movement building for social justice. The project will support greater civic engagement by refugees and migrants and meaningful integration in British society, through alliances with other local organisations and institutions working together to take action on issues of mutual concern.

The Cardinal Hume Centre enables people to gain the skills they need to overcome poverty and homelessness. The Immigration Advice Capacity Network will build a network of London organisations providing OISC advice, as well as facilitating cross-sector collaboration through improved signposting, referral pathways and immigration advice skill development. Through the network Cardinal Hume Centre will establish a more effective system for immigration casework referrals across the network to ensure those with the most complex cases are able to access specialist advice.

Project 17, in partnership with Southwark Law Centre, is seeking to test an integrated model of crisis intervention. Together they will offer a combined service to destitute families and children: combining support, advocacy and immigration representation. This is in response to new provisions within the Immigration Act 2016, which is likely to increase demand for Project 17’s services. The partnership with Southwark Law Centre will help them to meet this demand.