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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  • Electoral Reform Society

    A Better Referendum

    to create an online tool to help facilitate informed debate about Britain’s membership of the European Union

    Amount: £7,500
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2016
    Website: www.electoral-reform.org.uk

  • Voice4Victims

    Victims Rights’ Campaign

    to camapaign for a Victims’ Bill of Rights

    Amount: £30,000
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2016
    Website: www.voice4victims.co.uk

  • Liberty

    Save our Human Rights Act

    to lobby Conservative backbenchers on repeal of the Human Rights Act

    Amount: £11,377
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2016
    Website: www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk

  • High Pay Centre

    Legislating for fairness on top pay

    towards drafting a Bill on the High Pay Commission’s recommendations

    Amount: £5,000
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2016
    Website: highpaycentre.org

  • Hacked Off

    Access to Justice

    to mount a public campaign to pressure the Prime Minister to commence Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013, thereby delivering access to justice for press abuse victims and bring the Royal Charter system into effect

    Amount: £42,600
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2016
    Website: hackinginquiry.org

  • Future Housing Review

    Preserve social housing – rethink right to buy

    to campaign for housing associations to rethink their voluntary agreement on ‘right to buy’

    Amount: £22,500
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2016
    Website: www.futurehousing.org

  • Fuel Poverty Action

    Switched On London

    to campaign for affordable, democratic, public energy in London

    Amount: £7,200
    Theme: Rights and equality
    Date: 2016
    Website: switchedonlondon.org.uk

  • Twenty-Twenty Project

    to foster co-operation across the centre-left to defeat the Conservatives in the 2020 General Election

    Amount: £29,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2016

  • Alistair Carmichael MP

    Election Petition

    to underwrite a proportion of legal expenses incurred in maintaining some key principles of existing case law around Section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983

    Amount: £50,000
    Theme: Democracy
    Date: 2016