Grants database

ARC Stockton is an arts centre that uses arts and cultural activity to support local communities. This grant will support ARC to develop a new model for community-centred arts programming that delivers a range of performances and participatory activities shaped by local communities, particularly those facing barriers created by ethnicity, disability, sexuality, gender identity or socio-economic disadvantage.

We Belong is a migrant youth-led organisation campaigning for the rights of young migrants, providing information, support and training. This grant will enable We Belong to expand their operations to Manchester, as well as sustaining their work in London through a mix of direct community work alongside wider advocacy and influencing.

Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) provides legal support for people who have migrated to the UK and their families, specialising in immigration and asylum law and policy. This grant will support JCWI to encourage direct resistance, through community organising, collective and legal action and persist in driving long-term political change relevant to their core campaigns: migrant workers, undocumented people and climate justice.

The Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID) is a national charity that supports volunteer visitors to people in immigration detention, wherever they are held. This grant will support AVID’s ambition to consolidate and strengthen their membership network through expanding to reach more people in detention, prioritising outreach to prisons, responding to volunteer management challenges through wellbeing and recruitment support and developing a handbook to build an open resource for people in detention, their families and visitors. These priorities were developed in consultation with members and people with lived experience, to better meet the needs of people in detention and lead system change.

Shpresa Programme’s mission is to enable men, women and children from the Albanian-speaking community to live as full and active citizens through advice, support, education and training. This grant supports the recruitment of an Operational Manager to oversee project management and reporting, fundraising work supported via external provider as well as the need for consultancy and support with the building project, acquisition and renovation work.

Migrant Democracy Project promotes and facilitates the civic and democratic participation of first generation migrants both locally and nationally. This grant contributes to funding a part-time operational co-CEO role to establish a strong governance structure, implement the fundraising strategy, coordinate projects and perform the day-to-day operational tasks of the small organisation. In addition, this funding covers the organisation’s policy and strategy development and directly contributes to the Organising and Community Building stream of their work.

Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS) offer free and confidential specialist services for all Latin American women, including advice and counselling for women facing gender violence, and legal advice in welfare benefits, housing and employment rights. This grant will support LAWRS’ group for young women and girls, Sin Fronteras, and enable them to set up and develop a young women’s Advisory Board, whose members will participate in policy, advocacy and campaigning work. A training and leadership programme will support young women to develop the confidence and skills to engage fully with policy influencing and speaking to the media.

Indo American Refugee and Migrant Organisation (IRMO) works to enable the development, agency and participation of Latin Americans and other Spanish and Portuguese speakers, by responding to both immediate needs and structural inequalities.This grant will support their work with Latin American migrant children and their families, with a special focus on children with insecure status and Special Educational Needs or Disability, alongside schools and school admission departments, policymakers and specialist organisations and legal partners.

The Human Rights Consortium Scotland is the civil society network to defend and promote human rights in Scotland. The Consortium has around 170 network member organisations from across civil society. This grant will support the Consortium to strengthen connections between Scottish human rights and migration sectors, facilitate the voices of those with lived experience of migration to be heard in human rights developments and share learning and experience from Scotland with organisations and decision-makers across the UK.

Haringey Migrant Support Centre (HMSC) runs weekly services for migrants, regardless of background, providing free advice and casework on immigration, welfare, housing and community care. This grant will allow HMSC to develop its capacity to contribute to strategic litigation and policy work. It will also work collaboratively with other frontline organisations in the migration sector to build a network to share best practice, information and learning, improve co-ordination of services and amplify the voice of migrants in London.

Doctors of the World UK fights to reduce health inequalities by improving access to healthcare in the UK focusing on long-term systemic change. This grants supports them to develop their advocacy and engagement work, through gathering evidence of the impact of migrant health and immigration policies on undocumented migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, and developing ​‘expert by experience’ (EBE) led policy solutions. Work will also take place with an EBE advisory group to identify advocacy priorities, and invest in upskilling the group to act as professional advocates, focusing on navigating the parliamentary system and policy making processes and speaking to the media.

Act Build Change (ABC) are a fast-growing community organising school with a focus on accessibility. Their mission is to make community organising accessible to all and build a network of leaders committed to bringing about forms of justice at different intersections, with collective care as a core strand of their training. This grant will provide ABC the opportunity to focus on core strategic growth, collaborate with smaller, specialist migrant collectives, support larger organisations to influence better on systemic changes, and run a free programme of their standard care sessions twice a year.