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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  • Jim McMahon MP

    Liberal Voices – Votes at 16

    to strengthen the basis for extending the voting franchise to 16 and 17 year olds in the UK, and support democratic education in schools and colleges

    Amount: £19,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017

  • Darren Jones MP

    Liberal Voices – Digital Democratic Engagement

    for staff and associated project costs to influence the next Labour Party manifesto on key digital democracy issues through the group Labour Digital

    Amount: £19,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017
    Website: www.labourdigital.co.uk

  • Global Justice Now / Another Europe is Possible

    Building a movement to stop a hard Brexit

    to continue endeavours to stop a ‘hard Brexit’, extending demands to a referendum on the terms of the deal; to achieve ‘the softest possible Brexit, or no Brexit at all’

    Amount: £75,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017
    Website: www.globaljustice.org.uk

  • Make Votes Matter

    Campaigning for PR: Labour, Alliance & Lobbying

    for a cross-party campaign to work towards Proportional Representation for the House of Commons by 2021

    Amount: £109,758
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017
    Website: www.makevotesmatter.org.uk

  • Bernard Greaves / David Howarth

    Towards Liberalism

    an additional grant for the ‘Towards Liberalism’ project; for the production of a booklet to re-establish the identity of the Liberal Democrats

    Amount: £2,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017

  • Spinwatch / Public Interest Investigations

    Exposing lobbying around the Great Repeal Bill

    investigation into lobbying by business interests around the Great Repeal Bill

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017
    Website: spinwatch.org

  • Equal Civil Partnerships

    to ensure Tim Loughton MP’s Private Members’ Bill to equalise civil partnership gets through Parliament

    Amount: £25,000
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2017
    Website: equalcivilpartnerships.org.uk

  • Alliance for Choice

    Abortion Rights: Westminster, Civil Society and Constituency

    campaign for abortion rights in Northern Ireland

    Amount: £49,800
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2017
    Website: www.alliance4choice.com

  • Represent Us Ltd

    Amending the European Union Withdrawal Bill

    to lobby MPs and work with NGOs to build momentum behind, and then secure the passage of, one or more amendments to the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill designed to increase the power of Parliament over the Brexit process

    Amount: £5,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2017
    Website: represent-us.uk