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.

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  • Centenary Action Group

    Mission 2028

    £50,183 over one year to run MISSION 2028, a campaign to work across, and with, government, parliament and the political parties to deliver on the cross-party supported pledge of a gender equal parliament by 2028

    Amount: £50,183
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
  • Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law (British Institute of International and Comparative Law)

    The Rule of Law Restoration Project

    £75,903 over seven months to produce an analysis of the key legislative retrogressions to the rule of law between 2010–2024 and present well-researched and stress-tested proposals for reversing a strategically chosen set of them

     

    Amount: £75,903
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
  • Big Brother Watch

    Securing Rights Protections Against Digital Surveillance

    £69,678 over one year for their campaign to secure meaningful legal changes to protect human rights and the UK’s democracy under the forthcoming government in the context of two new applications of surveillance technology – facial recognition and workplace surveillance

    Amount: £69,678
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2024
  • Politics in Action

    Votes at 16 Launch Conference

    £10,000 for an event to officially launch their campaign for Votes at 16 in Northern Ireland

    Amount: £10,000
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2024
  • Gingerbread

    Single parent voters: promoting a path to the polls

    £5,080 over two months to encourage voter registration and turnout amongst single parents

    Amount: £5,080
    Theme: UK Democracy Fund
    Date: 2024
  • 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
  • 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