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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  • Big Brother Watch

    Protect Free Speech and Privacy in Protest

    £54,038 over one year towards your project to protect free speech and privacy in protest contexts in the UK.

    Amount: £54,038
    Theme: Political rights - Freedom of expression and protest rights
    Date: 2025
    Website: bigbrotherwatch.org.uk

  • Hillsborough Law Now

    £45,000 over one year to secure the passage and implementation of the Public Authorities Accountability Bill (Hillsborough Law).

    Amount: £45,000
    Theme: Checks and balances
    Date: 2025
    Website: hillsboroughlawnow.org

  • Reprieve

    Campaign to End Citizenship Stripping

    £39,980 over one year to challenge the racist and discriminatory practice of citizenship stripping by the UK Government.

    Amount: £39,980
    Theme: Political rights - Freedom of expression and protest rights
    Date: 2025
    Website: reprieve.org.uk

  • Workers Policy Project

    Democratic Engagement in Areas of Economic Insecurity

    £28,711 over one year to pilot an employment rights and democratic engagement programme in two UK localities: the North East where Reform UK won high numbers of council seats, and the South West, where rates of insecure work and isolation are highest.

    Amount: £28,711
    Theme: Voter participation and election system reform
    Date: 2025
    Website: workerspolicyproject.org

  • Who Targets Me

    Monitoring online political ads in the 2026 UK elections

    £59,500 over nine months to strengthen transparency and accountability in UK political advertising ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd and English local elections, while shaping debate and reform around the forthcoming Elections Bill.

    Amount: £59,500
    Theme: Checks and balances
    Date: 2025
    Website: whotargets.me

  • Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law

    Improving Democratic Resilience in Emergencies

    £20,331 over six months to improve the UK’s democratic resilience in emergencies, through a focus on public health crises.

    Amount: £20,331
    Theme: Checks and balances
    Date: 2025
    Website: www.binghamcentre.biicl.org

  • Autonomy Institute

    Turning up the heat – pushing political finance reform further through data-led collaboration

    £49,279 for a one-year project to map and analyse who benefits from political donations, the associated business networks, and the extent of these connections, using data methods unavailable to journalists.

    Amount: £49,279
    Theme: Money in politics
    Date: 2025
    Website: autonomy.work

  • Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors

    Local Campaign Development Project 2026

    £85,927 for a one-year national project to expand Liberal Democrat community campaigning in areas most vulnerable to low democratic engagement and the rise of populism.

    Amount: £85,927
    Theme: Political party
    Date: 2025
    Website: www.aldc.org

  • Institute for Constitutional and Democratic Research (IDCR)

    Deliberate Misrepresentation in Politics Campaign

    £10,000 to fund an initial four-month programme of work by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Compassionate Politics (administered by Compassion in Politics (CiP) as Secretariat, with support from IDCR) to develop and promote measures that enhance democratic resilience by protecting our democracy from political disinformation and deception.

    Amount: £10,000
    Theme: Disinformation
    Date: 2025
    Website: www.icdr.co.uk