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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  • Unlock Democracy (Road to PR coalition)

    National Campaign for Proportional Representation

    £30,000 over six months to reinforce the Road to PR’s existing fundraising capacity and to support key activities central to the success of Road to PR until additional external financial support is secured

    Amount: £30,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: unlockdemocracy.org

  • Battersea Arts Centre

    The Agency voter registration project

    £10,000 over two months to expand their pilot and approach to register more Black and Asian voters and empower young people from predominantly marginalised and lower socioeconomic communities to lead the conversations

    Amount: £10,000
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2024
    Website: bac.org.uk

  • The Watchdog

    £48,792 over one year for their campaign to protect and strengthen the public’s right to know

    Amount: £48,792
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024

  • Democracy Club

    Election Leaflets

    £9,300 over nine months to crowdsource and publish physical election leaflets online during the 2024 UK elections

    Amount: £9,300
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
    Website: democracyclub.org.uk

  • Politics Project

    Democracy Classroom – Phase 2

    £88,284 over eight months from July 2024 to extend their Democracy Classroom programmes, providing crucial support that delivers voter registrations at scale across the democracy and youth sectors

    Amount: £88,284
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2024
    Website: www.democracyclassroom.com

  • Undercover Research Group

    Challenging the Spycops Inquiry 2024–2026

    £94,588 over two years from July 2024 to engage intensively with the final phases of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI), and to maximise the impact URG has on its final report and recommendations.

    Amount: £94,588
    Theme: Truth to Power
    Date: 2024

  • 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