Grants database

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Working Class Young People: Being seen, being heard, leading change
RECLAIM
Amount: £20,000
Location: North West, UK
Date: 2021
RECLAIM supports young working-class people living in Greater Manchester to lead change in the systems that limit working class young people’s opportunities. This grant supports young people to campaign nationally and locally around issues of discrimination, inequality and stigmatisation arising from unfair economic and political systems.
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Change Makers Lab: Developing agency, igniting activism, building communities
Phoenix Education
Amount: £20,000
Location: East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, South West, UK
Date: 2021
Phoenix Education supports young people to lead change and facilitates collaborative decision making between schools, colleges and their communities. This grant supports the organisation’s Student Voice and Refugee Support Network to engage young change makers in designing, planning and delivering their own social action projects that will improve young people’s experience of the education sector.
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#ChangeIt campaign: social action through public sector engagement
Newport Mind
Amount: £19,500
Location: Wales, UK
Date: 2021
Newport Mind provides support services for adults and young people who experience mental health problems. This grant supports the hiring of a Service Development Worker to work with young people to lead the #ChangeIt campaign delivering training to professionals to improve their awareness and professional practices.
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Groundbreaker Fellowship
My Life My Say
Amount: £1,500
Location: UK-wide, UK
Date: 2021
My Life My Say is a youth-led charity that empowers young people to participate in democracy. This grant supports the continued development of the Groundbreaker Fellowship programme, which provides training sessions in mobilisation, public speaking, fundraising, media/communications and branding to young people who want to lead change.
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Achieving youth driven and led growth in service delivery and influence
MAP Mancroft Advice Project
MAP is an established youth organisation, delivering across Norfolk and supporting 11–25 year olds, to make a successful transition to adulthood, through advice, counselling and youth work. This grant provides additional core funding alongside an annual package of support towards organisational innovation, development and growth. Investment will achieve youth driven and led growth in service delivery and influence.
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Youth Strategic Investment Fund
Gloucestershire Young Carers
Gloucestershire Young Carers works with children and young people with a caring responsibility for a family member. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth plans, and to support young carers to build on their strengths, achieve their aspirations and experience a positive transition to adulthood.
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Youth Strategic Investment Fund
Football Beyond Borders
Fund: Youth Strategic Investment Fund
Amount: £500,000
Location: London, Multi-region, North West, South East, UK
Date: 2021
Football Beyond Borders uses football to support marginalised young people to raise attainment and aspirations. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth plans, and to scale work providing long-term, intensive support, built around relationships and young people’s passions, so they thrive in the classroom and beyond.
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Youth Strategic Investment Fund
Empire Fighting Chance
Fund: Youth Strategic Investment Fund
Amount: £500,000
Location: Multi-region, South West, Wales, UK
Date: 2021
Empire Fighting Chance uses non-contact boxing and intensive individual support to inspire young people experiencing disadvantage to make positive changes in their lives and improve their mental health. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth plans, and to scale work harnessing the power of non-contact boxing to mentor, provide therapy and offer careers support for young people to change their lives.
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Youth Strategic Investment Fund
Children’s Law Centre
The Children’s Law Centre (CLC) is a national charity based in Belfast which empowers children and young people. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth plans to enable CLC to uphold children and young people’s rights, ensuring they can participate, are valued, their rights are respected and guaranteed without discrimination, and every child can achieve their full potential.
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‘Experts through experience’ spokesperson network
Sounddelivery Media
Amount: £80,000
Location: UK-wide, UK
Date: 2021
Sounddelivery Media is a charity that aims to amplify lived experience stories and expertise to address social inequalities. This grant supports Sounddelivery Media to develop and deliver a spokespersons programme and network to enable people with lived experience to change perceptions, contribute to solutions, influence policy and create positive change through firsthand stories. This work will ensure that more experts through experience are visible in the media and have their ideas heard more widely.
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Creating a future where all young people in Camden thrive
Young Camden Foundation
Amount: £40,000
Location: London, UK
Date: 2021
Young Camden Foundation (YCF) aims to address the growing uncertainty of long-term investment in the youth sector and the need to build more cross-sector partnerships. This grant supports YCF to increase long-term investment in Camden’s children and young people sector, enable new cross-sector collaborations, build organisational capacity, and help ensure that young people feel safe, listened to, and are thriving and achieving their full potential.
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Underpinning support for women affected by prostitution
women at the well
Amount: £90,000
Location: London, UK
Date: 2021
women at the well supports women whose lives are affected by, or at risk of being affected by prostitution in communities in Camden, Islington and Haringey. This grant underpins the work of the women-only service located in Kings’ Cross..