Grants awarded

The grants we award range in size from a few hundred to tens of thousands of pounds. Some grants tackle short-term immediate issues and may be in response to specific political developments. Occasionally multi-year grants are made.

Information about grants is published on this website once the grant has been formally agreed.

Our grants are also published to the 360Giving standard* and are available to download as an Excel spreadsheet.  See below for a full list of grants starting with the most recent.

Case studies

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  • Democracy Club

    Election Leaflets

    £9,300 over nine months to crowdsource and publish physical election leaflets online during the 2024 UK elections

    Amount: £9,300
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: democracyclub.org.uk

  • Politics Project

    Democracy Classroom – Phase 2

    £88,284 over eight months from July 2024 to extend their Democracy Classroom programmes, providing crucial support that delivers voter registrations at scale across the democracy and youth sectors

    Amount: £88,284
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.democracyclassroom.com

  • Undercover Research Group

    Challenging the Spycops Inquiry 2024–2026

    £94,588 over two years from July 2024 to engage intensively with the final phases of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI), and to maximise the impact URG has on its final report and recommendations.

    Amount: £94,588
    Theme: Truth to Power
    Date: 2024

  • Purpose Union

    Student voter registration

    £34,288 over five months to increase the number of students who are registered to vote, by spreading awareness and engagement with the process of auto-enrolment with further education (FE) colleges

    Amount: £34,288
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.purposeunion.com

  • Who Targets Me

    Monitoring Political Ads in the 2024 General Election

    £55,500 over nine months to increase accountability of online political advertising in the 2024 General Election campaign

    Amount: £55,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: whotargets.me

  • Open Rights Group

    Digital Rights 24

    £20,754 over seven months to ensure that marginalised voices are at the heart of a pre-election mobilisation project to pave the way for stronger digital rights protections from the next UK Government.

    Amount: £20,754
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.openrightsgroup.org

  • My Life My Say

    Give an X

    £50,187 to enhance the Give an X campaign, collaboratively spearheaded by My Life My Say, the iWill Movement, and Shape History, to register and mobilise young voters for the upcoming election – specifically through brand partnerships

    Amount: £50,187
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.giveanx.org

  • Institute for Public Policy Research

    Centring democracy in the new progressive project

    £74,875 over one year to undertake a programme of research, advocacy and influencing to shape the political and constitutional reform agenda of the next UK government

    Amount: £74,875
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.ippr.org

  • Consolidate

    Consolidate data expansion

    £45,000 over nine months to expand their current interactive database which sheds light on the flow of money and other affiliations between the government and the private sector

    Amount: £45,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.consolidate.org.uk