Grants database

Social Workers Without Borders (SWWB) purpose is to promote the best interests and voices of those impacted by immigration and asylum law to decision makers through independent social work practice. This grant will support recruitment and retention of two staff roles – a Head of Direct Work and an experienced social worker with lived experience of the migration system.

Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PAFRAS) work with people who have migrated to Leeds and the surrounding areas, providing advice, support and emergency provision. This grant will enable them to continue their Early Action casework, supporting young people who have migrated with holistic support and access to quality legal help. PAFRAS will also continue working alongside Leeds Local Authority, sharing knowledge and offering complex casework to young migrants at risk of destitution; supporting the local authority with appropriate adults for age assessments.

Polish Migrants Organise for Change (POMOC) aims to improve the lives of Polish women living in the UK. This funding will go towards community organising training and mentorship to POMOC’s expanding organising team, to ensure they are well equipped and supported to deliver an ambitious and robust campaign ahead of the UK’s next General Election.

People’s Economy support communities facing economic injustice to participate in and lead the growing movement for economic systems change. This grant will enable them to work with people with lived experience of the immigration system to co-design and implement a programme of community economics education.

The Migration Museum explores how the movement of people to and from Britain across the ages has made us who we are – as individuals and as a nation. From their current base in Lewisham, they stage exhibitions and events and deliver an education programme for primary, secondary, university and adult learners. They also convene a knowledge-sharing Migration Network of museums and galleries across the UK. This grant will enable Migration Museum to employ a new Development Manager to support the organisation as it works towards developing a permanent museum.

Maryhill Integration Network (MIN) is a community development organisation working alongside migrants, people seeking asylum and refugees in Glasgow to create solidarity and respect. With this grant, MIN will enhance their ​‘Human Rights and Citizenship’ work strand to help newly dispersed groups to navigate the asylum system, acting as a bridge between communities and decision-makers at local and Scottish levels. They will build on their local connections to progress positive narratives on asylum and refugee issues in Scotland and in the UK and develop peer-support volunteer roles to strengthen confidence, support and solidarity among those who are going through the immigration system.

Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) ensures access to justice for people who have been trafficked, tortured or are survivors of conflict and persecution. This grant supports GMIAU to strengthen their influencing work and develop their communications tools, leverage local political power, and challenge the hostile environment at its core by holding central government to account through policy and parliamentary work.

Black Europeans aims to challenge systemic racism within European Union and UK institutions and representatives, which affect non-white EU citizens post-Brexit. This grant is for core funding to resource their CEO and project assistant, provide contribution to people with lived experience working with them, and cover additional project and organisational costs.

Crossborder Forum (CBF) is a forum for organisations and activists working on migration issues on the UK-FR-BE border to come together, share expertise, and work towards shared advocacy across borders. CBF delivers its work via forum meetings, learning events, research, relationship building with decision-makers and lived experience grassroots groups in all countries, joint statements, and public actions. This is a unique initiative that seeks to increase transnational collaboration on migrants’ rights to tackle harmful narratives, practice, policies, and legislation. This grant will support Crossborder Forum to sustain itself through the next stage of its development.

Centrala exists to achieve inclusion and wellbeing for Central and Eastern European (CEE) migrant communities in England. This grant will support them to continue developing their own model of community organising through the CEEus! Network, building the capacity of local people with lived experience of the immigration system to advocate for themselves, strengthening the voice and influence of CEE migrants on local, regional and national policy.

Asylum Matters works in partnership locally and nationally to improve the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum through social and political change. They bring together and support a broad network of groups and organisations across England and Wales, to work collaboratively to mobilise, coordinate and increase the impact of advocacy and campaigns to secure improvements to asylum policy and practice. This grant contributes to core costs, allowing Asylum Matters to grow their campaigning reach while ensuring their organisation remains strong and resilient.

UK BME Anti-Slavery Network (BASNET) is a member network charities and community interest companies led by and working in diaspora and racialised communities to address modern slavery and human trafficking across the UK. This grant will support BASNET to: build members’ research capabilities and capacity; influence policy and practice; continue forming lasting strategic partnerships to diversify the modern slavery space increasing inclusivity and access to more research opportunities; counter the harmful ​‘illegal migrants’ narrative; provide a dedicated space for members to utilise self-advocacy; and provide extra mental wellbeing to support BASNET members. The funding will also contribute towards AFRUCA’s broader emotional counselling support for staff, as BASNET’s host organisation.