Parliamentary Internship for Young Disabled Talent

£50,099 over one year to pilot and evaluate a parliamentary internship programme for six disabled talent with intersectional characteristics, in the summer of 2025

Votes at 16 Campaign

£75,840 over one year for a largely parliamentary-facing campaign for Votes at 16

Supporting women and navigating the ‘spycops’ scandal

£87,750 over two years for the duration of the remaining tranches of Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) hearings. The work will support their members through the evidential stages of the UCPI and will campaign to bring to public attention the misogynistic abuse and assault on democracy by political undercover policing

Post-election influencing – Towards evidence-based policies

£69,964, over one year, to expand their sector-leading role in holding politicians, journalists, charities and academic researchers to account through original investigations and evidence-based policy recommendations challenging the ill-treatment of modern slavery survivors

Monitoring nepotism and boosting transparency

£34,840 over one year to build a new tool to facilitate greater transparency and democratic accountability around the relationship between the UK Government and its contractors

‘Hear Her’ Project

£30,100 over one year to implement their “Hear Her” project, a comprehensive training programme designed to address the gender disparity in political representation in Northern Ireland

Building Trust – Delivering a Better Democracy Conference

£10,000, for a two-day conference which will bring together an influential group of democracy sector players and organisations to agree a common programme of action.

Reform of Northern Ireland’s Governing Institutions: Review

£8,765 over six months to undertake a “landscape review” of options for reform of Northern Ireland’s domestic governing institutions: the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Northern Ireland Executive, and other related bodies.

General Election Campaign Support

£10,000 to continue their work building on their tool, Mapped, which provides campaign data support