Grants database

Integrate UK is a youth-led charity based in Bristol that promotes gender and racial equality, integration, and community cohesion. They support young people to deliver campaigns and peer education sessions on issues such as female genital mutilation, child sexual exploitation, honour-based violence, and radicalisation. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is a trade union that organises precarious predominantly migrant labour workforces, in outsourced and ​‘gig-economy’ or low-paid self-employment sectors. This grant supports IWGB to employ additional legal caseworkers, enabling them to meet the ongoing and increasing Covid-19 related casework needs of their members in 2021.

Football Beyond Borders is an education charity, based in South London, which uses football to support marginalised young people to raise attainment and aspiration, reduce risk of school exclusion and have their voices heard. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Engage promotes access and enjoyment in the visual arts through gallery and museum education. This grant supports Engage in providing opportunities for artists, professionals and freelancers to adapt their practice to a new working context in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Education and Skills Development Group (ESDEG) aims to address the needs of the local Somali community, many of whom had arrived as refugees. Since their inception, ESDEG has expanded their services to members of all faiths and ethnic groups, who are experiencing disadvantage, exclusion, poor social mobility, inequality and other barriers that are preventing the community or its members from thriving. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Daisy Inclusive UK is a disability-led charity that supports those who are vulnerable, disabled young people and their families through activities covering themes such as sports, music, education, employment, disability hate crime, social readiness and support. They aim to give the people they support a personalised pathway to help them reach their true potential and become active members of their community. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Daily Life is a cross-disciplinary arts charity based in London. Their mission is to change the way that people think about women’s art practice, reach new audiences and support artists experiencing marginalisation. This grant will support Daily Life to continue collaboration with Newcastle-based Wunderbar to develop a new peer support programme for creative practitioners experiencing marginalisation and the disproportionate effects of Covid-19.

Dance Base is Scotland’s National Centre for Dance. Located in Edinburgh, the centre caters for dancers of all ages and abilities, providing an accessible programme of activities that offers a diverse public a non-competitive, sociable and enjoyable way to keep physically fit and develop new creative skills. This grant supports Dance Base to continue its work to develop the Scottish Dance for Parkinson’s network through bespoke and embedded delivery in regional partner hubs, extended programming and future organisational planning.

Creative Futures is a charity whose mission is to transform the lives of vulnerable children and young people experiencing disadvantage through high quality targeted arts programmes. This grant enables the continuity of Creative Futures’ Sound Communities project, a professional development programme for Early Years professionals exploring the theme of music and communication by building ​‘communities of practice’ in a number of locations in London and the South East.

Circle Collective is a London based chain of shops offering work experience to young people who are unemployed. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Asylum Matters is a charity that works in partnership locally and nationally to improve the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum through social and political change. By mobilising and coordinating local, regional and national advocacy work, they aim to increase the impact of campaigns to secure improvements to asylum policy and practice. This grant supports the organisation in helping its partners convene, act and advocate locally and nationally for the rights of asylum seekers, in increasingly difficult and unprecedented circumstances.

The Anti-Tribalism Movement is a Somali-British led non-profit organisation aimed at educating and raising awareness about the effects of tribalism within communities. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.