Grants database

Medact organise health workers to take action on the structural barriers people face to health equity and justice. This grant will fund Medact in partnership with Migrants Organise to build the national ​‘Patients Not Passports’ campaign which aims to ensure that everyone can access healthcare, regardless of their immigration status. They will work with healthcare workers and migrant communities to challenge NHS charging regulations at local and national levels, combining community and workplace organising, along with advocacy, research and legal strategies to achieve policy change.

Empire Fighting Chance is a Bristol-based charity that 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 fund improvements to their facilities to provide a therapy gym and on-site staff accommodation.

NOMAD works with young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds, to help them develop their confidence and successfully integrate into the wider community. This grant provides core funding to enable NOMAD to successfully develop and implement a new strategic plan.

RIANA Development Network (RDN) is based in West London and exists to address the unmet needs of the communities in and around the Borough of Hounslow which include poverty, homelessness, substance misuse and poor health. This grant will enable RDN to embed and expand their piloted Looking Ahead programme for 16–18 year olds most at risk of not sustaining education, training or employment. It will also ensure RDN can pursue accreditation for their youth programmes and develop their asset-based approach via their existing youth board of peer volunteers.

On Road Media aims to improve media coverage of misrepresented groups and issues, improving people’s lives and the way they are treated by society. This grant will support the development of All About Trans, contributing to staffing costs and enabling the appointment of a new Project Assistant. This increased capacity will allow the team to deliver more interactions and training with an additional 25 young people and 50 media professionals, working on content to reach millions. As a result, more young transgender people will have their voices heard via nuanced media portrayals, leading to better public understanding and support.

Leeds Mind promotes positive mental health and wellbeing and provides help and support to those who need it in Leeds and West Yorkshire. They plan to expand their mental health peer support offer in response to positive feedback from young service users. This grant will fund a second practitioner to join the existing Young People Service Lead and work directly with a minimum 160 young people who have experienced trauma. They will also reach a further 13,000 young people via schools and community programmes.

Children’s Legal Centre Wales (CLC Wales) improves the lives of young people and their parents or carers by providing information, online advice and advocacy services to promote children’s rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and Welsh law. This grant will allow CLC Wales to recruit an Education and Engagement Lead to develop and deliver interactive rights-based awareness sessions to young people, engage and support them to produce accessible legal resources and coordinate working groups of young people to engage with policy processes.

Arts Education Exchange (AEE) is a youth organisation based in Margate focusing on young people aged 8–25 years who face barriers to participation in education, employment and wider society. The grant will enable AEE to expand their current offer to become an alternative education centre and advocate and amplify models of education grounded in creativity and wellbeing. It will also allow them to set up a Youth Ambassador Group to ensure young people inform the charity’s organisational programming and strategy.

Active Horizons work with young Black people and others who experience racism, including many who are refugees and asylum seekers. They offer youth leadership, mentoring, education and arts programmes. This grant will support the delivery of youth-led anti-racism work with four secondary schools in Bexley, building on learning from a pilot project. This programme aims to tackle racism within schools and communities, and centre the voices of Black, Asian, and other young people with lived experience of racism.

Imkaan are the only UK-based, second-tier women’s organisation dedicated to addressing violence against Black and minoritised women and girls i.e. women which are defined in policy terms as Black and ​‘Minority Ethnic’ (BME). This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Ignition Brewery is a South London brewery, which employs and trains people with learning disabilities to brew great beer. They are a not-for-profit company, paying the London Living Wage to our trainee brewers. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

HostNation works to offer friendship and social opportunities to asylum seekers and refugees. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.