Grants database

Pie Factory Music is a Ramsgate-based youth work charity that engages and supports young people across east Kent through music and the arts. This grant will provide funding for the new CEO, which will enable the organisation to continue to grow their impact at a vital time for both the charity and the future of youth services in Kent.

Peer Power supports young people with lived experience of the criminal justice, social services and mental health systems to advocate for positive change within these systems and services. This grant will support Peer Power to develop youth-led communications that amplify lived experience and systems change.

West End Women and Girls Centre are the only open access community based women and girls centre in Newcastle. They support working class young women with lived experience of gender inequality to mobilise through peer education. This grant will support West End Women and Girls Centre to build local campaigns and coalitions to purposefully change policy and legislation and create better gender equality for young women in the North East.

Trefnu Cymunedol Cymru/​Together Creating Communities (TCC) uses community organising principles to bring together a variety of groups including community groups, faith groups and schools to create long-term community cohesion in North East Wales. This grant will fund their work training and supporting young leaders to run strategic campaigns on the issues affecting them, as well as engaging more diverse new groups and making shared youth spaces more accessible.

RJ Working is a Cornwall-based charity that uses a Restorative Justice model to support young people to tackle injustice and respond to conflict positively, to create more compassionate, inclusive and fair communities. This grant will support RJ Working to partner with the InterClimate Network, a charity specialising in supporting young people to become leaders and advocates for action on climate change. Together they will engage young people in 20 local secondary schools and colleges to deliver a youth climate change activism programme. This will form part of a five-year plan of consulting every young person in Cornwall about their relationship with climate action and facilitating opportunities to engage in collective responses. It will also support RJ Working’s journey towards becoming a fully youth-led organisation.

Rekindle School (Rekindle) is a unique supplementary school in South Manchester. The charity aims to inspire a change in the way we view ​‘success’ in the UK state school education system. This grant will support a three-year youth-led campaign, with a national conference, extensive in-person and online teacher training series and sector-delivery programme. The longer-term business plan is designed to create six new Rekindle Schools in the next ten years – four in the north of England and two in London and Brighton.

Lincolnshire Traveller Initiative works with people of all ages from mainly Gypsy and Irish Traveller heritages, offering education, employability, health and advocacy services. This grant will support the development of a new digital hub, which is a response to increased demand for education services. Offering online lessons and tutoring will allow more young people to access support and gain qualifications, and enable staff and volunteers to spend longer working with participants.

Intercultural Youth Scotland (IYS) provides a community, a service and a voice for young Black and People of Colour (BPoC), and a safe space to nurture their talents. This funding will allow for the addition of a Human Resources Manager to develop internal processes and oversee the HR responsibilities, allowing the CEO to focus on income generation and programme development opportunities afforded by the recent acquisition of a large new building by the organisation.

Girl Grind UK (GGUK) is a youth-led company in Birmingham supporting the creative aspirations and achievements of young people. It is focused on implementing its business plan to celebrate, advocate and champion women in music through expanding its flagship music business programmes across the region and nationally. This grant will fund a full-time Grants and Fundraising Coordinator to work with the Chief Executive Officer to strengthen strategic development plans and build a sustainable programme of expansion.

Comics Youth provides comics-based literacy and wellbeing projects for marginalised children and young people aged 8–25 within Liverpool. They are the creators of ​‘Marginal’, the first young person led publishing house in the UK. This grant will fund a ​‘Marginal Changemaker programme’, recruiting 40 young people with lived experiences of marginalisation to become catalysts of change within their communities and providing them with a range of coaching, mentoring and publishing-based activism sessions specifically focused around raising the voices of young people in publishing campaigns and beyond.

Bureau Local was set up to bring community-led thinking to a struggling local news industry. This grant underpins the Bureau’s strategic plans and strengthens the information and agency backbone to civil society that a strong local news ecosystem provides.

The Ubele Initiative is an African Diaspora led intergenerational social enterprise. This grant supports the delivery of the Exhale Retreat, a two-day experience for 20 women from Black African and/​or Caribbean backgrounds working in social justice organisations, trusts and foundations. It provides a space for facilitated workshops, group work, wellbeing activities, reflection sessions, healing and grounding. Participants will create and share strategies for collective social change.