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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  • Our Future, Our Choice

    100 universities in 100 days

    to visit 100 universities in 100 days to mobilise students and put pressure on MPs to support a further referendum

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2019
    Website: www.ofoc.co.uk

  • Remain Labour

    to campaign to ensure that Labour policy is clearly and consistently in favour of giving the country the opportunity to Remain in the EU

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2019
    Website: www.remain-labour.co.uk

  • Citizens’ Convention on UK Democracy

    to design and run an ambitious, inclusive and thorough deliberation on democratic reform in the UK

    Amount: £70,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2019

  • Newspeak House / Original Content London

    Newspeak House

    to transform the current part-time residency at Newspeak House into a full-time research and teaching faculty

    Amount: £55,000
    Theme: Capacity building
    Date: 2019
    Website: www.nwspk.com

  • IMPRESS

    Independent News Taskforce

    to create an Independent News Taskforce, through which independent news publishers can come together to promote policies which give effect to the Cairncross proposals

    Amount: £21,000
    Theme: Media reform
    Date: 2019
    Website: impress.press

  • DefendDigitalMe

    #LabelsLastaLifetime

    to continue to campaign for safe, fair and transparent use of children’s personal confidential data across the education sector in England

    Amount: £35,625
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2019
    Website: defenddigitalme.com

  • Hatch UK

    Hatch Innovation Challenge

    to pilot a new method of building collaborative campaigns

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2019
    Website: hatch-uk.org

  • Democracy Volunteers

    Voter ID Trials 2019

    to stop, or ameliorate, the Government’s planned change to a hard form of Voter ID

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2019
    Website: democracyvolunteers.org

  • Naughty Step Films Ltd

    Ordinary Heroes

    to launch their film about the actions of Elin Ersson as part of an initiative to engage young people in political action

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2018
    Website: www.onthenaughtystep.com