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.

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  • Manifesto Club

    Defending rights to local political campaigning

    £10,000 over seven months for a campaign to defend rights to local political campaigning and free speech in public spaces

    Amount: £10,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2025
  • Politics Project

    Votes at 16 Youth Strategy Day

    £9,985 over four months to coordinate an in-person youth day for young people across the UK campaigning for Votes at 16, and to support a parliamentary roundtable for young campaigners and MPs in parliament

    Amount: £9,985
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2025
  • Unlock Democracy

    Securing Automatic Voter Registration in the Elections Bill

    £32,227 over 16 months to support their ongoing campaign for Automatic Voter Registration

    Amount: £32,227
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2025
  • Opna (John McCallister)

    Northern Ireland Assembly & Executive Reform

    £20,000 to enable a one-year campaign to build support for a Private Member’s Bill to reform the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive, in order to facilitate the devolved structures becoming much more stable, open and responsive and thereby encouraging a thriving democratic culture in Northern Ireland

    Amount: £20,000
    Theme: Democratic Voices
    Date: 2025
  • Unlock (National Association of Ex-Offenders)

    Convicted prisoners voting rights – a new collaborative campaign

    £39,865 over one year to challenge the ban on prisoners’ voting rights, as set out in Section 3 of The Representation of People Act (1983)

    Amount: £39,865
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2025
    Website: unlock.org.uk
  • Open Rights Group

    Safety Not Surveillance

    £48,971 over one year to build opposition to predictive policing systems and data-driven risk assessment tools in the UK, in collaboration with their #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition

    Amount: £48,971
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2025
  • Impress

    Digital Markets Act Collective Bargaining Project

    £58,750 over 18 months to secure the necessary support and resources to form a coalition of media associations to negotiate collectively with Strategic Market Status (SMS) companies, such as Google and Meta, under the framework of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024

    Amount: £58,750
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2025
  • My Life My Say

    National Voter Registration Day 2025

    £5,951 for work in April 2025 to amplify their National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) 2025 campaign bringing together partners from across the youth, democracy and sports sectors, and creating a large-scale digital campaign

    Amount: £5,951
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2025
  • Ella Baker School of Organising

    Defeating narratives of division

    £10,000 over nine months to work with trade union, community, anti-racist, faith and political groups to convene in-person training, where they will share the model for building strong inclusive communities that do not feel the need to blame ‘scapegoats’

    Amount: £10,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2025