Grants database

Transform creates biennial festivals and citywide cultural takeovers from their base in Leeds city centre. This grant supports a three-year programme through which Transform will embed co-creation with young people into their organisational model and across their biennial festivals in 2021 and 2023. ​‘The Collective’ will focus on creative and personal development for 16–21-year olds, offering resources and support to commission, curate and create their own projects through cross-art form cultural experiences.

The Garage is a hub and charity for performing arts in Norwich. This grant provides core support for the Youth Inclusion Programme in Norwich and King’s Lynn, including a new approach to community work which will feed into the broader organisational development of The Garage’s approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, co-creation and learning and evaluation.

Attitude is Everything improves disabled people’s access to live music. This grant is part of four-year continuation funding including ongoing support for two key staff roles. This will underpin the organisation’s ability to deliver and further develop their key sector support role for the live music industry, ensuring Deaf and disabled experience is at the heart of an accessible reopening for music and other arts events.

Amal supports and develops creative endeavours that increase understanding of and belonging among Britain’s Muslim communities. This grant supports a new programme, Amal Connect, that emphasises additional local support from a coordinator and the creation of hubs, initially in Birmingham and Bradford. The new post will enable deeper collaboration and engagement between cultural organisations and Muslim communities and organisations.

The Unity Project support people affected by the ​‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF) policy to remove the NRPF condition from their leave to remain status. They run weekly casework sessions, provide appointments and workshops to help people make ​‘Change of Conditions’ applications and pursue lasting policy change and strategic litigation. This grant supports The Unity Project to continue tackling the inequality and discrimination behind the NRPF policy for people who migrate to the UK, working towards ending the policy.

The Refugee and Migrant Policy (RAMP) Project is an independent not-for-profit organisation. They help political leaders to think more deeply and to collaborate more widely on migration, asylum and integration issues. This grant supports RAMP to constructively engage with an additional Conservative MP on issues of migration and asylum to increase their ability to influence policy debate.

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is an anti-racist think tank that produces research and analysis to inform the struggle for racial justice in Britain, Europe and internationally. This grant supports the role of a dedicated Communications Worker in order to continue mobilising IRR’s core support base, expand reach to younger audiences, and grow IRR’s wider impact.

Runnymede Trust is the UK’s leading race equality think tank, which seeks to inform public and policy debates on race equality, migration and integration. This grant contributes to core salaries to support greater collaboration between the migration and race equality sectors. This work will drive forward advocacy, policy and campaigns on migration, integration and racial justice, improve framing and messaging for different audiences, and expand Runnymede’s partnerships.

City of Sanctuary UK is a growing network of groups, villages, towns, cities and regions across the UK, engaged in activities intended to welcome people seeking sanctuary. They also contribute towards wider movement building through partnership work, advocacy and campaigning initiatives. This grant supports City of Sanctuary to enhance organisational sustainability and strengthen its network to build a welcoming environment for people who migrate to the UK.

Act Build Change supports people and organisations to build power, develop leadership and care for relationships. They aim to make community organising accessible to all and build a network of leaders committed to justice. This grant enables Act Build Change to develop a programme of collective training shaped by and for the migration sector. This training focuses on three key areas: development of training offer and staffing; fostering clarity of approach via research and collaboration; and organisational development.

West End Women and Girls empowers women and girls who have been traditionally denied their rights to access existing services and effect positive change in their environment. This grant supports a peer education project to mobilise young working-class women with lived experience of gender inequality to build local campaigns, harness their collective power, change policy and legislation to create better gender equality for young women in the North East.

The 4Front Project is a member-led youth organisation empowering young people and communities to fight for justice, peace and freedom. They support members with experiences of violence and the criminal justice system to create change in their own lives, communities and society. This grant supports resource provision for the youth-led 4Mation campaign and the 4Mation Peace Fellowship, which builds the capacity of young activists to lead campaigns.