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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  • Seeds for Change

    Catalysing a counter-authoritarian movement

    £34,000 over 18 months to strengthen the growing grassroots movement against authoritarianism and extreme inequality in Britain, by providing training and organisational support to networks that are countering racialised over-policing and the hostile environment, and developing the democratic power of communities marginalised by those forces

    Amount: £34,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2023
  • UK Governance Project

    £35,000 over four months to conclude a project to bring about a material improvement in the quality of the ‘governance’ of the UK – ie the quality and integrity of our central government activities

    Amount: £35,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2023
  • Alliance for Choice

    NI Abortion – Rights for All

    £44,910 over 18 months to continue their campaign for abortion rights for all in Northern Ireland

    Amount: £44,910
    Theme: Truth to Power
    Date: 2023
  • Common Knowledge Cooperative

    Data Empowerment in the next General Election

    £56,000 over five months to provide campaign data support to five civil society organisations in their work towards a likely 2024 UK general election and to facilitate more effective organisation and mobilisation towards their campaign goals

    Amount: £56,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2023
  • Skate Cabal

    Rolling for Change Campaign

    £19,610 over ten months to engage and empower individuals who are currently underrepresented in the political process by building on the historic alignment between roller-skating and the black community; to educate and engage the black community through shared interests, boosting voter registration

    Amount: £19,610
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2023
  • Carib Eats

    Carib Eats Democracy Café

    £28,090 over ten months to provide a culturally competent democratic service that builds trust, a sense of belonging and voice to those aged over 55 and from predominantly Caribbean backgrounds in the community via the establishment of a democracy cafe for the elders, leading to voter registrations

    Amount: £28,090
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2023
  • Battersea Arts Centre (The Agency)

    The Agency voter registration project

    £17,000 over six months to test an approach to register more black voters and empower young people from predominantly marginalised and lower socioeconomic communities to lead the conversations

    Amount: £17,000
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2023
    Website: bac.org.uk
  • Muslim Council of Britain

    Muslims Vote

    £71,500 to increase consciousness and understanding of the UK’s political system and democratic process within British Muslim communities, and in turn, increase voter registration and turn out at the general election

    Amount: £71,500
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2023
    Website: mcb.org.uk
  • Not1More

    Defending UK Democratic Rights

    £10,000 over one year to lobby for a Parliamentary Inquiry, and communicate to key policymakers the unjust use of civil injunctions to criminalise protesters.

    Amount: £10,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2023
    Website: not1more.org