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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  • Bright Blue Campaign

    Rebuilding Liberal Britain

    £10,000 over eight months to produce an edited collection of essays bringing together leading liberal decision makers and opinion formers from across the political spectrum to offer a series of ideas on rebuilding liberal Britain

    Amount: £10,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2025
    Website: www.brightblue.org.uk

  • Rights & Security International

    Challenging the ‘securitised’ policing of protest movements

    £35,681 over one year to mount a campaign to challenge the ‘securitised’ policing of protest movements in Northern Ireland (NI), which is hindering movements for racial justice, reproductive rights and other rights-protecting causes

    Amount: £35,681
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.rightsandsecurity.org

  • Reporters Without Borders

    Improve institutional responses to transnational repression

    £38,782 over one year for a project aimed at improving the government’s response to transnational attacks on journalists living and working in the UK

    Amount: £38,782
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: rsf.org/en/reporters-without-borders-rsf-uk

  • Operation Black Vote

    Operation Black Vote 2025

    £68,000 over one year to enhance your organisational capacity and deepen local engagement through the National Voter Registration Alliance

    Amount: £68,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.obv.org.uk

  • Labour for a New Democracy

    Building pressure for Proportional Representation under a Labour government

    £57,228 over one year to maintain and extend Labour movement demands for Proportional Representation

    Amount: £57,228
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.labourforanewdemocracy.org.uk

  • Disability Policy Centre

    Monitoring the number of Disabled MPs for the first time

    £59,150 over one year to fund a research project to find out the exact number of disabled MPs there are in the current 2024-2029 Parliament and to understand accurately how representative this Parliament is, whilst researching further the barriers to disclosure for disabled MPs

    Amount: £59,150
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: thedisabilitypolicycentre.org

  • Constitution Unit, UCL

    Mobilising for House of Commons reform and a restored culture of scrutiny in the 2024 parliament

    £56,431 over one year to conduct work on House of Commons reform in the new parliament, focused on strengthening parliament and restoring standards of scrutiny and accountability

    Amount: £56,431
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit

  • John Stuart Mill Institute

    “Radical Liberalism in an Age of Crisis”

    A one-off grant of £3,140 to enable the publication of a book of essays on key topical political issues, which will provide a Liberal response to the declining participation in politics

    Amount: £3,140
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.jsmi.org.uk

  • Black Equity Organisation

    Black British Mandate Implementation (Phase II)

    £73,148 over one year for the implementation of the recently launched Black British Mandate and also to secure the delivery of at least three of its policy demands set out in the mandate within the current parliamentary period

    Amount: £73,148
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: blackequityorg.com