Grants database

Candoco is a professional dance company of disabled and non-disabled dancers. They present ground-breaking performances with inclusion at their heart. Their learning programme includes high-quality dance activity for young disabled dancers alongside professional development for disabled makers. This grant provides core support to support Candoco during a critical period of staff transition and to embed a revised Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Action and Training Plan.

Bradford Literature Festival (BLF) is an annual arts event and year-round cultural outreach programme based in Bradford. They aim to create high quality cultural activity and build stronger communities through dialogue, cohesion and promotion of intercultural fluency. This grant supports BLF to establish a year-round community engagement programme which will transform social inclusion, accessibility and representation for working-class and marginalised communities. Specifically, funding will support a full-time Community Manager, regular community consultation events, co-created programming and evaluation of the programme.

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 funds for grantees Eastern European Resource Centre and Work Rights Centre to increase their advice capacity for those affected by the war in Ukraine and respond to growing demand for immigration advice.

Asylum Matters works 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 Asylum Matters to deliver a campaign in response to the Nationality and Borders Bill, specifically to increase public and political opposition to the two-tier system of protection proposed by the bill, and to demonstrate the harmful impact of the proposals on Afghans fleeing the Taliban.

United Legal Access (ULA) provides low-cost legal support in the community. They focus on providing legal assistance, legal education and advocating on behalf of migrant and ethnic minority groups, individuals and communities that are often marginalised, discriminated against and facing injustice. This grant supports the supervision, coordination and administration of ULA’s Windrush compensation support alongside increased digital promotion and outreach to support more people affected by the Windrush scandal.

The Public Law Project (PLP) is a legal charity working to improve access to justice in the UK and to ensure those marginalised through poverty, discrimination or disadvantage have access to the public law remedies necessary to hold the state to account. They employ lawyers and academics to support the sector with an expert, evidence-led approach across research and policy, training and support, casework and litigation. This grant supports PLP to appoint a Legal Director during a period of organisational change.

Praxis support migrants to have a voice, live in safety, meet their basic needs and overcome barriers to integration. They host and support Brighter Futures, a group of young people aged 16–25 who work together to speak up for young migrants and their rights and challenge negative perceptions of migration in the UK. This grant supports the continuation of Brighter Futures who campaign on the issues that affect them, with the support of a Youth Coordinator and partner Kazzum Arts. The group will be supported to deliver interventions that challenge discrimination and influence public debate.

Open Rights Group (ORG) is a digital campaigning organisation working to protect people’s rights to privacy and free speech online. They work to raise awareness of the threats of technological developments to human rights and challenge them through public campaigns, legal actions, policy interventions and tech projects. This grant supports ORG to carry out cross-sector challenges to data discrimination and exploitation policies and practices within the UK immigration system, through advocacy, campaigns and a network of 25 migrants’ rights groups.

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 supports the organisation to deliver on their ambition to create a permanent Migration Museum for Britain, through a four-year programme of public engagement, audience research, education programmes, exhibitions, events and media campaigns.

Migrant Voice is a migrant-led, national organisation focused on migrant-centred communications, campaigning and advocacy to achieve migrants’ rights and justice for all. They build migrants’ skills to speak in the media in order to strengthen migrant voices in civil society, counter xenophobia and build support for migrants’ rights. This grant provides core support for the roles of Director and Head of Development who will implement a new strategy that will increase Migrant Voice’s impact. They will extend their network into two more geographic areas and galvanise more organisations to collaborate around their thematic priorities.

The Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID) is the national charity and network of voluntary organisations providing support for people in detention. They aim to ensure that all those affected by detention can access a visitor to support them, and to achieve fundamental reform of hostile policies through awareness raising and community building. This grant supports AVID to implement strategic transformation which will see people with lived experience of the immigration system guiding AVID’s work. This work will include refreshing AVID’s strategic goals, and researching, implementing and monitoring new ways to ensure decision making is meaningfully lived-experience led.

Sheffield Young Carers is a Sheffield-based charity which provides support to children and young people aged 8–25 who provide significant unpaid care to family members. This grant provides strategic support for the organisation to pilot the role of Coordinator over the course of one year, to maintain and grow the Young Carers National Voice network and impact.