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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  • 89Up

    ASSEMBLE 2017: the digital campaigning conference

    to provide a one day training course for civil society, which covers the main areas of digital campaigning and the latest expert advice, practical implementation and innovation

    Amount: £6,000
    Theme: Capacity building
    Date: 2017
    Website: 89up.org

  • Open Rights Group

    Stop #jail4journalists and the Espionage Act

    high-profile campaign against the Law Commission’s proposals to change the law on ‘official data’

    Amount: £5,400
    Theme: Media reform
    Date: 2017
    Website: www.openrightsgroup.org

  • Operation Black Vote

    2017 MP Shadowing Scheme

    to part fund Operation Black Vote’s ground-breaking MP Shadowing scheme

    Amount: £7,200
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017
    Website: www.obv.org.uk

  • Women v. State Pension Inequality

    to improve the effectiveness of WASPI’s political campaign through professional consultancy support

    Amount: £35,868
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2017
    Website: www.waspi.co.uk

  • Equal Civil Partnerships

    to maintain the campaign’s momentum and work towards securing the inclusion of mixed-sex civil partnerships in the Queens Speech in May 2017

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2017
    Website: equalcivilpartnerships.org.uk

  • Make Votes Matter

    Labour for Proportional Representation Campaign

    to put Proportional Representation onto the Autumn Conference agenda

    Amount: £33,492
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017
    Website: www.makevotesmatter.org.uk

  • Generation Rent

    Lettings Fee Consultation

    to ban letting fees to tenants, and to determine the grounds for banning landlords or letting agents from the industry

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2017
    Website: www.generationrent.org

  • The Small Axe

    We Can Win

    towards their ‘Big Organising’ campaign to build a residents-led movement, to ensure that ordinary people make their voices heard in the lead up to The City of London Corporation’s elections, on 23rd March 2017

    Amount: £7,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017
    Website: wecanwin.co.uk

  • Global Justice Now / Another Europe is Possible

    Building a movement to stop a hard Brexit

    to enable Another Europe is Possible and Global Justice Now to work together to stop a ‘hard Brexit’, and ensure the most progressive outcome possible is attained on a number of key issues

    Amount: £75,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017
    Website: www.globaljustice.org.uk