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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  • Police Spies Out of Lives

    £64,350 over two years to undertake their work supporting members through the evidential stages of the Undercover Policing Inquiry and campaigning to bring to public attention the assault on democratic protest by undercover police infiltration of activist groups.

    Amount: £64,350
    Theme: Truth to Power
    Date: 2022
  • Open Rights Group

    Online Safety Made Dangerous – Challenging Prior Restraint

    £38,498 for a 10-month policy and campaign initiative designed to challenge ‘prior restraint’ measures in the draft Online Safety Bill.

    Amount: £38,498
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2022
  • Generation Rent

    The power of data: private renter voter registration project

    £43,100 over four months to drive awareness of, and enable effective targeting of, low-voting groups, particularly renters, by building a data hub, using publicly available data sources, to identify the geographic areas with low-voting groups.

    Amount: £43,100
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2022
  • British in Europe

    Lifelong voting rights for all UK citizens

    £50,000 over one year to lobby for the effective and timely implementation of lifelong voting rights for all UK citizens.

    Amount: £50,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2022
  • Our Home Our Vote

    £7,415 over three months to use the 2022 party conference season to re-launch their campaign for residence-based voting rights (RBVR) at the local level

    Amount: £7,415
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2022
  • United Response

    Every Vote Counts

    £30,000 over 21 months to deliver a non-partisan campaign to increase voter participation amongst young (16-25) autistic people who may or may not have a learning disability, and lower-income adults who have either a learning disability, autism or an acquired brain injury

    Amount: £30,000
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2022
  • Medact

    Empowering mental health patients, challenging police

    £21,744 over one year to empower patients, and challenge the presence of police, within mental health care.

    Amount: £21,744
    Theme: Truth to Power
    Date: 2022
  • Labour Coast & Country

    The Labour Town & Parish Network

    £15,275 over one year to develop a network for Labour (& Cooperative) Party members who are also Town, Parish or Community councillors.

    Amount: £15,275
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2022
  • Fabian Society

    Election outcomes: Reframing the debate

    £65,105 to fund a year-long campaign that would ‘message test’ key voters’ opinions of different election outcomes, via focus groups and an opinion poll.

    Amount: £65,105
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2022