Grants database

The Bevan Foundation develops new, practical ideas to make Wales fair, prosperous and sustainable, working with people affected by inequality and injustice. This grant supports Bevan to explore and test new ways of involving people with lived experience of migration in policy development, influencing and decision-making in Wales.

Young Women’s Trust is a feminist organisation working to achieve economic justice for young women. This grant provides follow-on funding to develop an outreach programme to support young women facing complex barriers to work.

The Advocacy Academy is a charity based in London which supports marginalised young people to understand and tackle the social issues that directly affect them. Follow-on funding will support the organisation to scale a leadership programme and launch a three-day intensive Spark programme to provide an alternative entry point to the Academy for young people.

Based in Torbay, Sound Communities specialises in using creative music and radio projects to help young people express their voice, increase employability and create new dialogues within communities. The organisation will create extra capacity by increasing their young team from two to four part-time trainees and formalise and expand its work experience programme to provide 10 placements. Through their new premises and mobile unit, Sound Communities will create a more permanent home and develop more sustainable income streams, increase service delivery and use its practice to influence sector-wide approaches.

Whatever It Takes exists to break the destructive cycle of offending behaviours in children and young people, enabling them to enjoy lives of choice and opportunity – it aims to do so through radical systems change. Funding will support the start up and roll out across five areas before further scaling.

ProMo Cymru works to ensure young people and communities are informed, engaged, connected and heard. Follow-on funding will support the organisation to co-develop and co-produce digital youth engagement programmes.

Peer Power supports young people with lived experience of the criminal justice, social services and mental health systems. Funding supports two new posts: Head of Communications and a Communications Apprentice. This increased capacity will help with plans to enhance the organisation’s profile and financial sustainability, and longer term, to grow reach outside London.

Mayday Trust works with people experiencing difficult times, such as leaving prison or care, or experiencing homelessness. The Trust offers supported accommodation in Northamptonshire, Oxford and Westminster, and delivers strengths-based coaching through its ​‘Personal Transitions Service’. A new youth-focused Personal Transitions Coach will work with 100 young people across Northamptonshire. They will carry out a ​‘Young Person’s Wisdoms’ inquiry to capture the voices of those going through tough transitions, identifying the systemic barriers that stand in their way. Learning will be shared to inform and influence wider practice across the UK.

The Isle of Wight Youth Trust provides counselling, and programmes focusing on mental health and youth advocacy. This grant supports the Trust to develop a drop-in Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub, which will be co-designed with young people.

Integrate UK is a youth-led charity based in Bristol that promotes gender and racial equality, integration and community cohesion. Funding will support the appointment of a new Project Worker who will support and increase the number of young people taking up leadership roles as peer educators and mentors. This in turn will help to grow the number of young people the charity engages through outreach work.

Gloucestershire Young Carers (GYC) works with children and young people with a caring responsibility for a family member. This grant supports GYC to undertake an independent evaluation of co-production as an asset-based approach, alongside strategic development to embed asset-based approaches across every level of the organisation.

Catch22 aims to build resilience and aspiration in people and communities. This grant will support Catch22 to scale their ​‘Inspiring Connections’ project. This project brings volunteer advocates from successful businesses, together with candidates from Catch22’s Employability services, to provide networking and personal development opportunities, and build candidates’ social capital.