Grants database

New Europeans UK (NEUK) supports vulnerable EU citizens and their family members to obtain and manage the immigration status that they require to continue living and working in the UK. Since 2021, NEUK has coordinated the EUSS Alliance, a coalition of more than 80 advice organisations serving EU citizens. This grant will help NEUK grow its strategic functions and address the lack of influencing capacity among EU citizen-focused civil society organisations. It will collect evidence and data generated by members of the EUSS Alliance and expand its research, policy and advocacy work to establish the need for specific support for EU citizens.

Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN) relieves the hardship of refugees, asylum seekers and their dependents in Kent, providing advice, information, education and support. KRAN has established youth leadership at the organisational level by employing four Youth Ambassadors (YA) through its Youth Ambassadors Programme. This grant will support two more young people to become Youth Ambassadors, using their agency, influence and voice in the public domain.

Hope not Hate aims to challenge racism and help build communities that are inclusive, celebrate shared identities and are resilient to hate. To do this, their work focuses on community action and engagement, research, training and educational services. This grant will support a project that aims to build resilience to hate messaging in towns in England and Wales and a stronger civic society with trust in the rule of law. Funding will support a network of leaders and organisations within towns who will respond to local needs and pressure points and share learning to enable rapid response to provocative elements.

East European Resource Centre (EERC) is an independent charity that provides information, advice, advocacy and voice to Eastern European migrants in London and beyond, particularly those who are experiencing disadvantage and exploitationThis grant will provide core funding to support EERC to grow its impact across service delivery, information resources and policy influencing.

The Arts Development Company is a Dorset based social enterprise which engages and collaborates with marginalised young people through creative programmes to nurture and increase their life chances. This grant will fund the creation of a steering group of young people who will lead meetings and attend training and development to support the sustainability of the Act for Change Together Festival.

The Hummingbird Project works with unaccompanied young people aged 12–25, who are claiming asylum and have been placed in accommodation in Sussex. It provides specialist one-to-one support and group activities, and also collaborates with young people through its Young Leaders programme to campaign and advocate nationally for better rights and protection. This grant will allow them to introduce a new, paid, ​‘Ambassador’ role, recruited from the cohort of Young Leader graduates, as part of its vision to become more youth led. Funding will also contribute to various staff roles, providing additional capacity within the organisation to support its development and campaigning work.

The Albert Kennedy Trust (‘akt’) provides support, advice and guidance to young people aged 16–25 who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning (LGBTQ+) and who are homeless or living in a hostile environment. This grant will support recruitment of a dedicated Youth Engagement Manager to expand and develop an outreach project that will centre the needs and voices of the most marginalised young people. This will include developing the youth panel to work alongside the board to ensure mainstream housing providers have the skills and know-how to support people from the LGBTQ+ community.

Oxfordshire Youth (OY) is a youth development charity directly supporting young people in Oxfordshire and the grassroots leaders, volunteers and youth organisations who work with them. OY focuses on support for young people facing the most challenging transitions. This grant will fund the recruitment of a Youth Engagement Manager to proactively address barriers to engagement for the young people most affected by violence, leaving-care, homelessness and mental health. This will also help create the infrastructure needed to embed youth voice across its programmes.

Fight For Peace works with young people via boxing and martial arts as part of a holistic methodology which includes Education, Employability, Support Services, and Youth Leadership. This grant will support development of an updated youth leadership strategy and framework, which will be packaged and shared with its network of partners. This will support its vision to enhance participation within youth and sports clubs across the UK.

Anti Racist Cumbria (ARC) exists to identify, challenge, tackle and end racism in Cumbria. It does this through projects that deal with the root causes of systemic racism in schools, businesses, communities and wider organisations. This grant will support the recruitment of a Grassroots Coordinator. The Coordinator will facilitate and amplify the voice of Cumbria’s Black and minoritised young people and support them in creating their own anti-racist projects.

Positive Money is a not-for-profit research and campaigning organisation who lead on money and banking reform. Their vision is for a money and banking system that serves a fair, democratic and sustainable economy. They carry out grass-roots campaigns, undertake research, lobbying and advocacy work and lead an international reform movement. This grant will increase Positive Money’s capacity for narrative-shaping work on key systemic money and banking issues, and for mobilising the public to apply pressure on decision-makers at key opportunities. It will also fund reactive work challenging damaging narratives in the media, and part fund a new senior digital campaigner.

The Centre for Youth Impact is a community of organisations that work together to progress thinking and practice around impact measurement in youth work and services for young people. This grant provides core funding to the Centre for Youth Impact to support quality evaluation in the youth sector over the next three years in order to build a shared evidence base for the impact of provision, alongside re-balancing evaluation efforts towards continuous quality improvement.