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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  • Bernard Greaves / David Howarth

    Towards Liberalism

    an additional grant for the ‘Towards Liberalism’ project; for the production of a booklet to re-establish the identity of the Liberal Democrats

    Amount: £2,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017

  • Spinwatch / Public Interest Investigations

    Exposing lobbying around the Great Repeal Bill

    investigation into lobbying by business interests around the Great Repeal Bill

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017
    Website: spinwatch.org

  • Equal Civil Partnerships

    to ensure Tim Loughton MP’s Private Members’ Bill to equalise civil partnership gets through Parliament

    Amount: £25,000
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2017
    Website: equalcivilpartnerships.org.uk

  • Alliance for Choice

    Abortion Rights: Westminster, Civil Society and Constituency

    campaign for abortion rights in Northern Ireland

    Amount: £49,800
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2017
    Website: www.alliance4choice.com

  • Represent Us Ltd

    Amending the European Union Withdrawal Bill

    to lobby MPs and work with NGOs to build momentum behind, and then secure the passage of, one or more amendments to the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill designed to increase the power of Parliament over the Brexit process

    Amount: £5,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017
    Website: represent-us.uk

  • Open Rights Group

    Grassroots campaign against controls of online speech

    to build a nationwide movement that challenges online censorship

    Amount: £7,400
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2017
    Website: www.openrightsgroup.org

  • NEON

    Learning the lessons of the 2017 election ‘ground game’

    to help the people most instrumental in delivering the effective General Election ground operations to reflect on their practice, synthesise their own learning and decide on the next steps necessary to improve further

    Amount: £4,665
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017
    Website: neweconomyorganisers.org

  • Localis

    Campaign for Neo-Localism

    to campaign to re-define ‘localism’ as a political concept post-Brexit

    Amount: £6,300
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017
    Website: www.localis.org.uk

  • Spiked

    Free Speech University Rankings

    to continue to publish the annual free speech rankings

    Amount: £29,223
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2017
    Website: www.spiked-online.com