Grants database

The Proud Trust are a youth and community work organisation supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, especially those who are marginalised. This grant supports the development of a volunteer programme, therapeutic youth work and youth social enterprise training in the Trust’s new LGBT+ Centre. The Trust will share the insight from these and related activities to inspire the national development of LGBT+ youth voice, youth support and LGBT+ inclusion.

The Bytes Project specialises in digital youth work and in using technology to help young people to ​“hack their world for good”. With offices in Belfast and Derry/​Londonderry, Bytes runs programmes and works on-street across Northern Ireland. In partnership with young people, the Bytes team will develop a ​‘strategic project framework’. This will set the direction for longer term work in rural communities. Learning from this exercise will be shared more widely to influence key policy decisions in local, regional and national government.

Tender Educations and Arts uses the theatre to engage young people in the prevention of domestic and sexual abuse. They deliver healthy relationships programmes in education, youth and arts settings, training for professional, and youth leadership programmes. This grant will fund a Programme Manager to support Tender’s ability to deliver, develop and grow projects which engage young people in the prevention of domestic and sexual abuse. Its work is evidence-led and effective in ensuring young people have more understanding of healthy/​unhealthy relationships.

The Positive Youth Foundation is a Coventry based charity that aims to improve the life chances of young people facing challenging circumstances. This grant will support the organisation to develop their approach to evaluation and impact analysis, with a focus on enhanced youth voice. This in turn will inform the organisation’s influencing and policy work, as it aims to secure a positive legacy for young people following Coventry City of Culture 2021.

Pie Factory Music is a Ramsgate-based youth work charity that uses music and related arts to engage and support young people across east Kent. This grant supports internal capacity building to support the Senior Management Team, ensuring strategic maturity, robust governance, and effective infrastructure during significant organisational growth.

Our Time is campaigning for and supporting young people whose parents suffer from a mental illness This grant supports continued development of Our Time’s support for children and young people who have a parent with a mental illness, through family workshops and support in school.

On Road is a national charity that aims to improve media coverage of misrepresented groups and issues. This grant supports On Road to set up All About Trans as a separate organisation led by transgender people that aims to increase public awareness and knowledge about the lived experiences of transgender young people in the UK by working alongside others and employing strategic communication techniques.

No Limits supports young people in and around Southampton with advice, counselling and specialist youth services, meeting the needs of the those facing the most complex and challenging circumstances including isolation. This grant will support No Limits to build organisational capacity, enhance IT expertise, train staff and improve support for young people in and around Southampton with advice, counselling and specialist services.

Mermaids works with and on behalf of transgender and gender variant children and young people across the UK. Funding will support a new post to oversee data, security and infrastructure.

Launch It is a youth enterprise charity with sites in England and Scotland. They aim to help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to start their own businesses. This grant supports further replication and the development of a more rigorous infrastructure to support its growing network of enterprise centres.

Based in Birmingham, GirlDreamer ​‘educates, elevates and empowers’ marginalised young women of colour to become agents of change in their local communities. Funding will support GirlDreamer’s senior team to focus on strategic planning and to lead the organisation through a period of transformation and growth. They aim to combine the different elements of their offer into one core programme and thus increase the number of young women directly supported by 100 each year. They also hope to enhance long term sustainability by growing consultancy work.

Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT UK) is a national children’s rights organisation working to protect children from trafficking, transnational exploitation and modern slavery. ECPAT UK will work with the Sheila McKechnie Foundation to develop a new campaigns strategy and strengthen its existing youth participation model. It aims for young people to take a more central role to develop and lead new campaigns and reach new audiences. Specialist training will strengthen youth voice as central in leading campaigns to improve legislation to better support child victims of trafficking.