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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  • Migrants’ Rights Network

    Migrant Aspiration Programme

    to run a Migrant Leadership Programme to support and encourage greater civic participation from members of migrant communities and enable them to speak truth to power

    Amount: £52,839
    Theme: Truth to Power
    Date: 2021
    Website: migrantsrights.org.uk

  • Open Rights Group

    Establishing a citizens’ digital rights agenda for Scotland

    for work before, during and after the Scottish Parliamentary elections in May 2021 in order to ensure fair campaigning practices and to use the election to assist in establishing a digital rights agenda in the next Scottish Parliament that is responsive to citizens’ needs

    Amount: £14,929
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2021
    Website: www.openrightsgroup.org

  • Fair Vote UK

    Defending our Democracy in the Digital Age

    to make improvements to the Government’s Online Harms and Electoral Integrity Bills

    Amount: £58,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2021
    Website: fairvote.uk

  • Patient Experience Library

    Strengthening patient rights and voice

    to help strengthen patients’ rights and patient voice under the NHS constitution

    Amount: £15,000
    Theme: Truth to Power
    Date: 2021
    Website: www.patientlibrary.net

  • Activate Collective and the Equip Her coalition

    Supporting a generation of female political candidates from minoritised communities

    to create a programme to support a pipeline of politically active women from under-represented groups

    Amount: £94,489
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2021
    Website: www.timetoactivate.org

  • The Institute for Constitutional & Democratic Research and The APPG for Democracy & the Constitution

    APPG Inquiry – rights to free expression and protest

    to conduct a 5-week inquiry into the extent to which constitutional rights to free expression and peaceful assembly were respected by The Metropolitan Police at the Clapham Common vigil for Sarah Everard on Saturday 13 March 2021

    Amount: £7,474
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2021
    Website: www.icdr.co.uk

  • Sortition Foundation

    Building public support for democratic reform

    to support the collaborative development of a shared language to persuade the public of the importance of democratic reform

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2021
    Website: www.sortitionfoundation.org

  • Citizens UK

    Using community organising to drive voter registration (Project Extension)

    to extend their UK Democracy Fund project to increase the democratic participation of young people in PCC, Mayoral and local elections taking place in May 2021

    Amount: £6,620
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2021
    Website: www.citizensuk.org

  • Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

    Party development (continuation funding)

    to the end of October 2021 to sustain its campaigning infrastructure on an interim basis.

    Amount: £25,000
    Theme: Political party
    Date: 2021
    Website: www.allianceparty.org