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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  • defenddigitalme

    to continue work on children’s digital rights

    Amount: £36,000
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2020
    Website: defenddigitalme.com

  • Centre for Public Data Practice

    Better Data, Better Legislation

    to empower campaigners to challenge power through rigorous data

    Amount: £79,000
    Theme: Capacity building
    Date: 2020
    Website: centreforpublicdata.org

  • Undercover Research Group

    The spycops scandal, accountability and the shrinking space for protest

    to drive the debate around the policing of protest in our society and the shrinking space for dissent

    Amount: £67,250
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2020
    Website: undercoverresearch.net

  • Joe Mitchell

    A democracy sector network? A needs, tools & capacity review

    to undertake a short research project testing the assumption that a democracy network would be effective

    Amount: £5,250
    Theme: Capacity building
    Date: 2020
    Website: joe-mitchell.com/

  • Institute for Government

    How to save the Sewel Convention

    for a short piece of work on the status and future of the Sewel Convention, under which Westminster does not normally legislate in devolved areas without devolved consent

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2020
    Website: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk

  • openDemocracy

    Holding power to account during Covid-19

    to expose and challenge abuse of power across the UK related to the Covid-19 pandemic

    Amount: £58,713
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2020
    Website: www.opendemocracy.net

  • ACORN

    RentersVote – extension

    to engage renters and the vulnerably housed in democratic processes, specifically Mayoral elections in May 2021

    Amount: £35,000
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2020
    Website: acorntheunion.org.uk

  • Alliance for Choice

    Abortion Lucht Cabhrach

    to develop an abortion self-care programme

    Amount: £4,419
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2020
    Website: www.alliance4choice.com

  • Democracy Volunteers

    Covid-19 impact mitigation

    to support ongoing work concerning 2021 UK elections during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2020
    Website: democracyvolunteers.org