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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  • Seeds for Change

    Resisting the repression of protest

    £30,000 over one year to support freedom of protest by enabling groups and communities to maintain their engagement in protest and sustain their campaigns in the face of rapidly intensifying repression; and in turn to strengthen the systemic pushback against repressive legislation

    Amount: £30,000
    Theme: Political rights - Freedom of expression and protest rights
    Date: 2025
    Website: seedsforchange.org.uk

  • Centre for Finance and Security at the Royal United Services Institute

    The Blockchain Backdoor? Cryptocurrencies in UK Politics

    £54,297 over one year to deliver the UK’s first comprehensive investigation into the democratic risks of political donations made in cryptocurrency

    Amount: £54,297
    Theme: Money in politics
    Date: 2025
    Website: www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/research-groups/centre-for-finance-and-security

  • Politics Project

    Democracy Network

    £21,806 over six months to host and support the Democracy Network during a scoping and design phase

    Amount: £21,806
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2025
    Website: thepoliticsproject.org.uk

  • Democracy Club

    Democracy Network

    £52,806 over six months to host and support the Democracy Network during a scoping and design phase

    Amount: £52,806
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2025
    Website: democracyclub.org.uk

  • Make Votes Matter

    Project 17

    £60,000 over eleven months to influence the UK Elections Bill by demonstrating the breadth of public and political support for PR

    Amount: £60,000
    Theme: Checks and balances
    Date: 2025
    Website: www.makevotesmatter.org.uk

  • Full Fact

    Full Fact: The Elections Bill

    £49,592 over one year to support your work influencing the government’s Elections Bill, advocating for the inclusion of robust measures to address the joint challenges of mis- and disinformation in UK democracy and historically low levels of public trust in politics

    Amount: £49,592
    Theme: Disinformation
    Date: 2025
    Website: fullfact.org

  • Fair Vote UK

    Civil Society Coordination for the Elections Bill

    £57,660 over seven months to coordinate civil society response to the government’s upcoming Elections Bill

    Amount: £57,660
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2025
    Website: fairvote.uk

  • Shout Out UK

    #SeneddBound

    £89,197 over eight months to launch #SeneddBound, an impartial, Wales-wide digital initiative aimed at promoting voter registration amongst young people aged 16-35

    Amount: £89,197
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2025
    Website: www.shoutoutuk.org

  • My Life My Say

    MLMS Advocacy 2026

    £73,449 over one year for a programme of advocacy and mobilisation, which will pursue two interconnected objectives: securing the extension of the voting franchise to 16- and 17-year-olds, and increasing youth voter registration and turnout among 16 to 30-year-olds in the May 2026 devolved and local elections

    Amount: £73,449
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2025
    Website: www.mylifemysay.org.uk