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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  • 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
    Website: unlockdemocracy.org

  • 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
    Website: www.openrightsgroup.org

  • 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
    Website: www.impressorg.com

  • 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
    Website: www.mylifemysay.org.uk

  • 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
    Website: www.ellabakerorganising.org.uk

  • Social Change Lab

    Protest and the ballot box: does activism influence voting?

    £9,500 to co-fund a research project examining the impact of protest movements on voting behaviour

    Amount: £9,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2025
    Website: www.socialchangelab.org

  • 50:50 Parliament

    Reset Report – Advocacy Project

    £10,000 over one year to advocate for the recommendations in their Reset Report, which highlights some of the most significant cultural and workplace problems which lead MPs to step down from Parliament

    Amount: £10,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2025
    Website: www.5050parliament.co.uk