Grants database

The Guardian Foundation is an independent charity that aims to increase access to the media for underrepresented voices. This grant will support Heartlands, a place-based video journalism training programme, examining the social challenges people face, working collaboratively to empower local people to tell their stories.

The Funders for Race Equality Alliance (also known as the Alliance) is a group of charitable foundations working together to achieve race equality in the UK, of which Paul Hamlyn Foundation is a member. This grant supports research to map out organisations working on race equality, including the role of Black and minority ethnic led organisations, and to find out what an active organisation in the race equality sector looks like.

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Creative Diversity are a cross-party group working to identify and tackle obstacles to diversity in the creative sector. This grant supports the APPG to develop a research report and events with King’s College London and University of Edinburgh on effective practices for the creative sector in its approach to recruiting, retaining and developing diverse talent and provide recommendations for industry and government.

The Finance Innovation Lab aims to build power to transform the financial system for people and planet. They strive to cultivate a community of systems-changemakers and work on initiatives that impact mental models and power dynamics in finance for deep, lasting change. This grant will support the organisation to empower civil society and finance organisations across the UK to understand and influence the finance system, in order to reduce exclusion, exploitation and inequality.

Place2Be is a children’s mental health charity that provides mental health support in schools. This grant supports a pilot intervention to deliver a counselling service for children attending two schools in South Ayrshire, with a view to entering in a Social Bridging Finance agreement with South Ayrshire County Council alongside the Robertson Trust and the William Grant Foundation.

GiveBLACK is a group of individuals of African and Caribbean heritage who are committed to promoting philanthropy amongst Black people in the UK and increasing funding to Black led organisations. This grant supports a qualitative research project commissioned by GiveBLACK in partnership with the Runnymede Trust, exploring the motivations, desires and patterns of Black philanthropy in the UK.

COMMON is an arts organisation in Berwick Upon Tweed which exists to make theatre more accessible to working-class artists, audiences and communities. This grant supports COMMON to expand management capacity and develop a communications strategy.

Chorus Campaigns are a collective of communications, campaign and political strategists who work with activists to create change. This grant supports Chorus to develop support systems for activists and movements by documenting the experiences of grassroots campaigns.

Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBSUK) is a project based in Oxfordshire and run in partnership between Oxfordshire County Council Children’s Services and Oxford Hub. BBSUK creates long term mentoring and friendships between mentors and children aged 7–11. This grant supports the organisation to scale up their mentoring support to up to 100 children on the edge of care in two new locations.

The Young Foundation is a UKRI accredited Independent Research Organisation, social investor and community development practitioner, with the mission to develop better connected and more sustainable communities across the UK. This grant supports the organisation to grow their new national network of peer researchers to be more diverse and reflective of the priorities and needs of marginalised groups across the UK.

Dartington Service Design Lab is a research charity focused on improving outcomes for children, young people and families. This grant supports Dartington to carry out an inquiry into how organisations can use evidence to shape and answer their own questions about how to improve their services. The results will shape the organisation’s strategy and provide outputs for the wider sector.

Sistema Scotland is on a mission to transform lives through music, working with children experiencing disadvantage. This grant supports Sistema to evaluate the impact of their programme Big Noise which aims to equip children with resilience and confidence and reach their potential across all areas in their lives.