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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  • Energy Democracy Project

    Building Support for Divest-Invest

    to campaign for local councils to divest pension funds away from fossil fuels, and reinvest this capital into public good

    Amount: £4,500
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2016
    Website: energydemocracyproject.wordpress.com

  • OpenMedia

    Save the Link

    to campaign to stop regulations that aim to censor links to content or otherwise penalise services that utilise hyperlinks

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Media reform
    Date: 2016
    Website: openmedia.org

  • Compass

    Progressive Alliance

    to bring together and launch a progressive alliance of political parties and social movements, with a view to seeing the introduction of proportional representation and a new politics

    Amount: £22,030
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2016
    Website: www.compassonline.org.uk

  • More United Ltd

    seed funding to build support for a new, progressive, cross-party, grassroots political movement

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2016
    Website: www.moreunited.uk

  • Standing Committee for Youth Justice

    Youth Justice Review

    to lobby for policy and legislative reform following the publication of the final report of the Youth Justice Review by the Ministry of Justice

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2016
    Website: scyj.org.uk

  • Eluned Parrott

    Intergenerational Equality

    to assess campaigning opportunities for tackling the causes of intergenerational inequality

    Amount: £6,495
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2016

  • Voice4Victims

    Abuse of Process Campaign Launch Event

    towards the costs of the launch event for the Abuse of Process Campaign

    Amount: £700
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2016
    Website: www.voice4victims.co.uk

  • Fiona Grahame

    The People versus Alistair Carmichael

    towards the shortfall in fundraising for the costs incurred from bringing the legal challenge against Alistair Carmichael MP

    Amount: £5,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2016

  • Alliance for Choice

    Trust Women Coalition

    to form a broad civil society coalition that will provide continued impetus in the campaign for abortion law reform in Northern Ireland

    Amount: £51,540
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2016
    Website: www.alliance4choice.com