Grants database

School of International Futures (SOIF) is a global non-profit collective of practitioners in strategy and policy for current and future generations. They are a transformational organisation working at the intersection of intergenerational planning, strategy, and policy. They empower people to use participatory futures and foresight to drive societal transformation through their organisations and countries. Their work has a social purpose and uses foresight to unlock insights about the future.

Positive Money’s vision is for a money and banking system that enables a fair, democratic, and sustainable economy. A research and campaigning organisation, they work with economists, academics, journalists, policy makers and the public to bring about a fairer money and banking system.

Kinfolk Network (KIN) aims to bring Black campaigners, activists, and organisers together from across the UK to collaborate, strategise and support each other in spaces that are accessible, well-resourced, and restorative. KIN envision the groups and individuals at the helm of change are nourished, supported and held accountable, in community with shared purpose. In Adrienne Mariee Brown’s words, they intend to build ​‘critical connections’ that will sustain movements for generations to come. By bringing Black campaigners, organisers and activists together from across movement spaces, they will continue to contextualise the fight for justice, learn from each other, acknowledge internalized oppressions, explore alternative forms of collective organising, and experiment with what these alternative forms might look like.

Good Ancestor Movement exists to accelerate the just transition to a new economy anchored in ecological and social wellbeing, by leveraging the power of private capital. The organisation helps wealth holders and custodians to play their part in creating a more equitable society and ecological resilience through values-led wealth stewardship and reparative and regenerative redistribution. They are the UK’s first advisory firm exclusively dedicated to supporting individuals, families, trusts and foundations with radical wealth redistribution. All their work is grounded in an ongoing exploration of what it means to be good ancestors.

Campaign for Freedom of Information (CFOI) works to improve and defend freedom of information to hold government and public authorities to account. They do this through advocacy, lobbying and policy work. They also provide advice, guidance and training.

Black Equity Organisation (BEO) is an independent, national Black civil rights organisation created to dismantle systemic racism in Britain, drive generational change and deliver better lived experiences for Black people across the country. They do this through research, advocacy, holding institutions to account, supporting policy and practice within workplaces and legal support, advice, and representation.

The Alliance for Youth Justice (AYJ) brings together 80 organisations to drive positive change in youth justice in England and Wales. Members range from large national charities and advocacy organisations to numerous smaller grassroots and community organisations. The AYJ provides a forum for members to exchange ideas, network and facilitate a community of practice. It also shapes decision-making and policy through the collective influence of its members, by carrying out research, identifying evidence of good practice, and amplifying the voices of children and young people. The alliance aims to promote widespread understanding about the underlying causes of children coming to the attention of the criminal justice system, and champion approaches that enable them to reach their full potential, with young people and the organisations supporting them at forefront of influencing change.

360Giving helps UK funders to publish their grants data in an open standardised way, and supports people to understand and use the data to improve charitable giving. This includes providing training, analysis, research and tools to help people to access and explore the data. 360Giving’s aim is for more money to go to where it is needed most to support communities and causes through a better understanding of the grant-making picture, supporting grant-making in the UK to become more informed, effective and strategic.

Freelancers Make Theatre Work (FMTW) are an inclusive, independent community for self-employed and freelance workers from all areas of theatre, opera and live performance, who make up 70% of the UK theatre workforce. This grant supports a pilot project that aims to centre the freelance voice and experience within all actions we undertake, whilst providing a financially supported structure for FMTW that creates longer-term stability and consistency, including the development of a safeguarding policy.

This grant provides core support for Artcry to expand their work funding and supporting artists to create politically responsive work with fast-turnaround resources, enabling them to make their artwork appear in the public realm in time to inspire social action and/​or political response. Funding will also support recruitment for a fundraising position to help Artcry establish itself long-term.

The Justice Together Initiative is a funder collaboration that offers funding and support to grant partners to build the power and influence of people with lived and learned experience of the immigration system and embed anti-racism strategies. Through grant-making and collaboration, they aim to connect lived experience, front-line advice and influencing strategies to create lasting change. This grant contributes to the development of a series of peer learning spaces, enabling organisations who deliver or commission legal advice around immigration to share their learning with local authorities.

The National Youth Agency transforms the lives of young people through the power of youth work. This grant supports The National Youth Agency to focus on better understanding the needs and opportunities of workers from underrepresented groups by expanding their planned workforce survey and consultation with the sector, to collect more detailed information around the workforce and its diversity.