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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  • Purpose Union

    Student voter registration

    £34,288 over five months to increase the number of students who are registered to vote, by spreading awareness and engagement with the process of auto-enrolment with further education (FE) colleges

    Amount: £34,288
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.purposeunion.com

  • Who Targets Me

    Monitoring Political Ads in the 2024 General Election

    £55,500 over nine months to increase accountability of online political advertising in the 2024 General Election campaign

    Amount: £55,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: whotargets.me

  • Open Rights Group

    Digital Rights 24

    £20,754 over seven months to ensure that marginalised voices are at the heart of a pre-election mobilisation project to pave the way for stronger digital rights protections from the next UK Government.

    Amount: £20,754
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.openrightsgroup.org

  • My Life My Say

    Give an X

    £50,187 to enhance the Give an X campaign, collaboratively spearheaded by My Life My Say, the iWill Movement, and Shape History, to register and mobilise young voters for the upcoming election – specifically through brand partnerships

    Amount: £50,187
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.giveanx.org

  • Institute for Public Policy Research

    Centring democracy in the new progressive project

    £74,875 over one year to undertake a programme of research, advocacy and influencing to shape the political and constitutional reform agenda of the next UK government

    Amount: £74,875
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.ippr.org

  • Consolidate

    Consolidate data expansion

    £45,000 over nine months to expand their current interactive database which sheds light on the flow of money and other affiliations between the government and the private sector

    Amount: £45,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.consolidate.org.uk

  • Involve / Democracy Network

    Make Politics Work For Us

    £75,000 over nine months to run a wide-reaching public facing campaign, ‘Make Politics Work for Us’, in the run-up to and following a 2024 General Election

    Amount: £75,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: democracynetwork.org.uk

  • Hillsborough Law Now

    £45,000 over 18 months to continue campaigning for a Public Authorities Accountability Bill

    Amount: £45,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: hillsboroughlawnow.org

  • Ferret Media

    Scotland’s disinfo war: Building democratic resilience

    £44,950 over nine months to investigate the influence that conspiracy thinking and the ‘culture war’ is having on Scotland’s political landscape

    Amount: £44,950
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: theferret.scot