Grants database

Based in Manchester, Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) aims to raise awareness about the issues that force women to seek international protection and to empower women asylum seekers. This grant supports WAST to build the individual and collective capacity of their members to effect real change in the social and political spheres. Work will include the development of a peer support model using social, cultural and political activities, and the provision of a leadership pathway for members.

Right to Remain is a human rights membership organisation which works with groups across the UK to promote and defend the rights of people seeking the right to remain in the UK. This grant will support Right to Remain to build on their well-established and effective community-based campaigns and organising model, with a particular focus on supporting migrant campaigners to become movement leaders, and building strong alliances at local, regional and national level.

The Refugee and Migrant Centre (RMC) is a charity working across the Black Country and Birmingham. They aim to assist refugees and migrants through crisis and disadvantage, by removing barriers to their integration and enabling them to become equal citizens. This grant supports RMC to develop their senior management team and formalise processes that bring together the learning from their frontline work to influence systemic change. RMC will also continue to develop their strategic and statutory partnerships nationally to effect systemic change.

Kanlungan Filipino Consortium is a group of Filipino community organisations working closely together for the welfare and interests of the Filipino and other migrant communities in Britain. This grant provides core support to Kanlungan to strengthen their strategic leadership and long-term planning, communications and infrastructural capacity and upskill staff so that the organisation can continue to collaborate, learn, and operate online after the pandemic.

JustRight Scotland (JRS) is a charitable group of human rights lawyers based in Scotland working towards a new model of collaborative social justice. They work in partnership with like-minded organisations who share a vision of a fairer and more equal Scotland. This grant underpins JRS’s policy and influencing work on migration in Scotland. It will increase their capacity to provide legal representation and challenges; support their JustCitizens group to grow its influence; provide strategic guidance, legal opinion and evidence to influence devolved legislation; and strengthen relationships with grassroots groups and providing legal expertise and analysis to campaigns.

International Community Organisation of Sunderland (ICOS) exists to improve the quality of life of Black and minoritised people in the North East and to enhance community cohesion and intercultural understanding in this area. They focus on those who lack access to information and services to ensure equal access. This grant underpins core services and advocacy work led by ICOS, Sunderland Bangladesh International Centre and New Horizons in Sunderland. Work will include a leadership programme for people with lived experience of migration and/​or racism and support for statutory authorities to better understand the needs and opportunities brought by communities who have migrated.

Hibiscus Initiatives supports and empowers Black and minoritised migrant women who are affected by the criminal justice and immigration systems. They deliver high-impact support and advocacy services, support clients in prisons, the community, and in immigration removal centres; and work with trafficking survivors. This grant supports the development of a new Empowerment and Agency programme to nurture leadership by women with lived experience and increase Hibiscus’ capacity to influence systemic change.

The European Climate Foundation is dedicated to responding to the global climate crisis by creating a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions society. They harness the power of effective philanthropy to support the climate community in shaping public debate and forging bold solutions. This grant supports the Foundation to work with UK investors and the climate movement to call out corporations profiting from inhumane government migration policies and raise investor risk for the border and surveillance industry (BSI). This work will address the growing space in progressive movements to deal with racial justice, human rights, and climate impacts in a coordinated way.

Detention Action defends the rights and improves the welfare of people in detention by supporting individuals and campaigning for change. This grant supports Detention Action to present a lived experience-led, evidence-based, collaborative alternative to migration reform at a pivotal moment in governmental decision-making. Detention Action will prioritise: continued work towards a time limit on detention; holding the government to account through strategic litigation, public campaigns and constructive dialogue; developing a new model for humanitarian visas in partnership with others; effectively evaluating their Community Support Project; and pushing forward with advocacy on community-based alternatives to detention.

Centrala aims to advance the social integration and cohesion of Central and Eastern European (CEE) communities in the UK. They promote CEE art and culture and create space for intercultural dialogue and cooperation. This grant supports Centrala to deliver a holistic support programme including: advice and information; community and cultural events; and community organising and development through a Community Champions programme, leadership training and neighbourhood forums.

Fully Focused is a youth-led media organisation using the power of issue-based film to positively impact the lives of mostly Black, Asian and minoritised young people aged 16–25. This grant supports the organisation’s readiness for investment with a focus on increasing capacity and enabing organisational development and strategic planning so that Fully Focused can continue to provide long-term support for young people and use film as a platform for their voices.

RJ Working uses a Restorative Justice model to support young people to tackle injustice and respond to conflict positively, to create more compassionate, inclusive and fair communities. They provide training to support young people to lead restorative practice projects with their peers, and to school staff and other youth practitioners. This grant supports the organisation to test and grow the ways that Restorative Justice can be used as a vehicle for social change and to tackle identity-related harm. It will also support continued growth in schools across Cornwall, and development of their offer for colleges and universities.