Grants database

Advantages of Age run the Startup School for Seniors, a training programme aimed at men and women, ages 50 and up, who have been made redundant and are seeking to fulfil their potential through new career opportunities. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) promotes and protects children’s rights worldwide, ensuring their interests are represented at every level of the legal process. This grant provides top-up funding as part of the organisation’s Major Grant and supports two additional posts – a Supervising Solicitor and an Immigration and Asylum Caseworker.

YUCAN is a youth and lived experience led organisation that supports young carers from East London with expert co-designed care plans, mentoring, befriending, homework support and respite opportunities. This grant supports YUCAN to create cultural awareness training programme for local authorities, schools and social services, enabling them to reach and provide relatable services to young carers from different ethnic backgrounds. Through this training, they will equip service providers with the tools and strategies to better identify and support young carers and create a more holistic, safe environment where young people are able to self-identify as carers.

Well Tempered Productions are a development company working across film and television, focused on projects by writers from marginalised communities. This grant supports the company to conduct a data driven study into the distribution of public funding for film across communities who have experienced various inequities in the UK, including racism, ableism and gender discrimination. Through this research, Well Tempered Productions hope to provide much needed evidence that can influence change, as well as create an accessible methodology and toolkit to measure the industry’s progress.

Tracey Agyeman is developing a network for and by Black women in philanthropy and the charity sector, a multigenerational national space which combines shared and peer learning, trust and respect to support women who are at different stages in their careers. This grant supports Tracey to build on previous work running a reatreat for Black women in the sector to establish a more long-term space that will give Black women the opportunity to see, hear and share their experiences working in the sector, and sustain and deepen learning and relationships.

The Sikh Development Academy aims to strengthen the UK Sikh community, organisations, and families and give every young Sikh the opportunities and experiences they need to help create positive changes on the issues that affect their lives, communities and broader society. This grant supports the organisation to facilitate a youth-led research advisory group who will lead on community social research and share their experiences on a national platform.

The Diverse Creative provides a range of services to benefit both the community of people with dyslexia or other disabilities and the wider community as a whole. This grant supports the development of Not Your Average Entrepreneur, a pre-seed accelerator programme for Black and minoritised disabled entrepreneurs. The programme will support aspiring entrepreneurs through mentoring and training, providing appropriate support that recognises the challenges they face because of ableism and racism.

The Black Queer Travel Guide provides digital resources that enable Black queer travellers to navigate the world safely through specific advice, information and local travel experiences on destinations around the globe. This grant supports the development of a prototype app version of the Travel Guide which will prioritise the safety and security of users and the people who share content about their businesses. The app will support The Black Queer Travel Guide to grow their community of businesses and ambassadors.

States of Mind co-designs effective forms of wellbeing support with young people in school and community settings. They design early intervention and education programmes and conduct research into the social determinants of young people’s mental health. This grant supports States of Mind to collaborate with students in two London secondary schools to research the current Ofsted Inspection Framework and devise an alternative evaluation framework that better serves the needs of the school community.

SpokesPerson seeks to find creative solutions to systemic inequalities to active travel. They work directly with LGBTQIA+, Black and minoritised, and other people experiencing marginalisation, to create better cycling access and confidence. This grant supports SpokesPerson to develop The Bike Chain, a programme combining cycling and bike maintenance skills, self-teaching and career-building for low-income young queer and trans people.

Sounds Like Chaos (SLC) is a radical arts company and collective comprised of 12–25-year-olds from diverse backgrounds in South East London. They create contemporary performance, develop new diverse leaders, employ and commission emerging artists. This grant supports the development of CounterAct, a radical climate justice education programme co-designed by young creatives and school children. SLC will work with three local school classes to co-research, develop and pilot a climate activism toolkit and workshop programme that will be rolled out across local secondary schools.

Ric Flo is a professional artist who works to increase the representation of care experienced artists in the music industry. Through his company Elevated Youth, Ric provides creative services for young people and provides a platform for UK artists in or from foster care. This grant supports the establishment of Mantra Music Record Label which will focus on supporting care-experienced talent and promote community empowerment rather than company profit. Through the label, artists will be supported in their creative confidence and made more visible in the music industry.