Thank you to everyone who applied in 2020. We are pleased to be supporting the following organisations and projects:
UK Round Spring 2020
Criminal Justice
Birth Companions: Improving the lives of mothers and babies affected by the criminal justice system
Church Homeless Trust: Resettlement of homeless prison leavers in Merseyside, Bolton and Manchester
Dance United Yorkshire: Excel
INQUEST Charitable Trust: Work with women and girls across custody and detention settings
Irene Taylor Trust: Music in Prisons - Women's Prison Projects
Koestler Arts: Inspiring Creativity: Koestler Arts Curation Project and Exhibition in Yorkshire
Mind in Camden: Voices Unlocked
REMEDI: CEASE
The Zahid Mubarek Trust: Advocacy for Justice Programme
Elderly People
Ambleside Parish Centre: Inside Out Project for Older People
Cleveland Housing Advice Centre: Outreach Advisory Services and support for the Elderly living in their own homes
Community Solutions North West Ltd
Dignity in Dementia CIC: Community Come Dancing
Macular Society: Support services for elderly people with sight loss
Manor and Castle Development Trust: The Manor and Castle Health and Wellbeing Project (Older People)
Musical Connections: Communities in Harmony
NEXT STEPS MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCE CENTRE: Totally Socially Out of hours/Weekend Warrior.
Northern Ballet: Northern Ballet Dance for Parkinsons
Saint Michaels Hospice: Volunteer Visitors Service
Sight Advice South Lakes: Sight Support for Visually Impaired Older People
St Gemmas Hospice: St Gemmas Hospice Carers Support Group
The Reader: Connect at Calderstones - Year 2
Mental Health
Back on Track: Beat the Blues
Bipolar UK: BIPOLAR YOUTH PEER SUPPORT YOUNG VOLUNTEERS PROJECT 2020/22
Cavendish Cancer Care: Improving mental health in cancer patients and their families
Crossroads Derbyshire: Children's domestic abuse counselling service
Golddigger Trust: Wellbeing Lead
Leeds Mind: Bridging the social and economic gap in West Leeds
National Schizophrenia Fellowship: Mental Health Care Navigator
Place2Be: Place2Be Counsellors on Placement: supporting children's mental health in Yorkshire schools
Sheffield Flourish: FlippinMental Theatre - Drama for the Mind
Vision Care for Homeless People: Opticians Clinic for Homeless People in Leeds
Visyon Ltd: Open Access
Human Rights
Centre for Womens Justice: Empowering the womens sector and their service users to fight injustice and protect their human rights
NSPCC: Protect & Respect
Parents Against Child Exploitation: Ending child exploitation
Prisoners Advice Service PAS: Advocating for Older Prisoners and Prisoners with Disabilities
The Snowdrop Project: Working with the survivors of trafficking
Refugees and Asylum Seekers
ASSIST Sheffield: Raising awareness of asylum issues in Sheffield
BEACON: BEACON
Birmingham Centre for Arts Therapies: Supporting Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers with EAL needs (English as an Additional Language)
Bradford City of Sanctuary: Bradford Schools of Sanctuary
Christ Church Armley Community Projects Ltd: Meeting Point
Maternity Action: Maternity Care Access Advice Service
Maun Refuge: All The Syrian Ladies: Food
Music Action International: Stone Flowers
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum: Anti-Destitution Project
Music In Detention: Music In Detention: embedding the strategy
Refugee Action York: Volunteer Co-ordinator
Refugee Rights Europe: Securing Human Rights & Safety for Refugees in the UK
South Yorkshire Refugee Law and Justice: Legal advice for fresh asylum claims
Theatre Deli: Migration Matters Festival 2020
Social and Economic Inequality
Action on Empty Homes: Community Action on Empty Homes
Become Charity: Supporting care-experienced young people in the North East to make their voices heard
Cardboard Citizens: Amplifying unheard voices
Church Action on Poverty: Your Local Pantry
Contact a Family: Campaign on Universal Credit for disabled young people in education
Disability Sheffield: Challenging Disability Hate Crime
EDT: Go4SET For Pupil Referral Unit’s
Leeds Tidal: Climate Equality Project
Surviving Economic Abuse SEA: Online forum for victim-survivors of economic abuse
The Albert Kennedy Trust: akt Service Manager Newcastle
The Big Issue Foundation: Service Brokerage - Nottingham
The Community Supported Agriculture Network UK: Share, Learn, Grow
The Edge Theatre and Arts Centre: The Edge Booth Centre Partnership
Whirlow Hall Farm Trust: Whirlow LIFE
Overseas Covid Emergency Round
Advantage Africa
Age International
CAFOD
Chase Africa
Child Hope
Christian Aid
Compass Children’s Charity
Ethiopiaid
Farm Africa
FRANK Water
Haller
HealthProm
IMPACT
Kidasha
Minority Rights Group (MRG)
Peace Brigades
PHASE Worldwide
Plan International UK
Railway Children
Street Child
TAPOL
Team Kenya
Traidcraft Exchange
War on Want
Womankind Worldwide
UK Autumn 2020
Criminal Justice
APPEAL: Beyond Hillsborough: Criminal appeals as a lever for criminal justice system accountability in the North of England
Fine Cell Work: Rebuilding Cell Groups
Good Vibrations: "Good Vibrations in Northern England"
JUSTICE: Creating a fairer, more accessible justice system that protects and upholds the fundamental human rights of all, but particularly those of vulnerable people.
Prisoners Education Trust: Changing Lives: Access to Learning for men and women aged 25 and under
Elderly People
Nottinghamshire Hospice Limited: Nottinghamshire Hospice Outreach and Discharge Service (HODS)
Excluded Young People
TLC Talk Listen Change: The Right Angle
Human Rights
AIRE Centre: EEA Women in Detention
Children and Families Across Borders: Core costs
Prisoners of Conscience: UK Hardship and Family Reunion Relief
Mental Health
Action for Wellbeing: Action for Engagement
Artichoke Trust: City of Light, Lumiere Durham 2021
Blyth Star Enterprises: 'Roots to Recovery'
Bolton Lads and Girls Club: Universal Health and Wellbeing
Cellar Trust: Mothers Achieving Together
Counselling and Support for Young People CASY: Online Counselling
Depaul UK: Mental Health and Wellbeing Support for Young People who Have Experienced Homelessness
Fallen Angels Dance Theatre: Enhanced Community Programme
Freedom from Torture: Direct therapeutic support to improve the lives of torture survivors across Manchester
Launchpad: Mental Health support for Homeless Veterans in Liverpool
Light Peer Support: Light-Online
Maggies: Where Now? at Maggie's Yorkshire
Maytree Respite Centre: The Maytree Respite Centre and Replication
Open Door Charity: Well-being activities programme
Pennywell Neighbourhood Centre: Health and well-being skills programme
Project 6: Young People Mental Health
SELFA: SELFA Therapy Services
Skills for People: You Are Not Alone
Southmead Project: Nexus counselling
Stonebridge City Farm: Welcome to the digital age
Student Minds: Student Mental Health Policy Briefings for Students’ Unions
The Brain and Spine Foundation: Neuro Helpline Support
The Change Foundation: Netball 4 Change (N4C)
The Wave Project: Surf Therapy on the Yorkshire Coast
Trauma Treatment International: Building the capacity of UK based organisations, working with the survivors of torture, trafficking, slavery and war, to better support themselves and their staff
Tyneside Womens Health: Building Blocks to Better Mental Health
YMCA Scarborough: Youth Mental Health Project
Refugee and Asylum Seekers
Burnley FC in the Community: Clarets Welcome
British Refugee Council: “Move On”: influencing strategic change to combat destitution and homelessness amongst new refugees
Room to Heal: Creative Survival - Strengthening Room to Heal's trauma healing community
Theatre Deli: Migration Matters Festival 2021
Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust: People and the DALES (PaD)
Social and Economic Inequality
Boston Lithuanian Community: Happy Healthy Minds
Community Led Action and Savings Support: Women-led savings: financial, digital and democratic inclusion
Feedback: Food alchemy in Knowsley, from food desert to food place
Mustard Tree: Gateway to Mustard Tree
Roundabout Ltd: Rapid Rehousing
Save the Children UK: Sheffield Early Learning Community
Solicitors Pro Bono Group aka LawWorks: LawWorks Clinics Programme (North West, North East and Yorkshire)
Sunderland Womens Centre: Core Costs
Whitehaven Community Trust: Support Worker Project 2020-2021
Young Womens Trust: Work It Out Greater Manchester
The application window for our Overseas funding round is now closed, thank you to all who applied.
We respond to all applicants, whether successful or unsuccessful. If we require further information, we will be in touch. We expect to be in contact with all organisations who applied in the next couple of months.
The application window for our UK funding round is now closed, thank you to all who applied.
We respond to all applicants, whether successful or unsuccessful. If we require further information, we will be in touch. If you haven't heard from us by December 2020, feel free to drop us a line, however we expect to be in contact with all organisations who applied in the next couple of months.
We have recently closed an emergency application round which was open for overseas projects affected by corona virus.
The Trustees of the Foundation are keeping its grant making policy under constant review in the light of social and economic developments in relation to the Coronavirus pandemic.
More information about future rounds will be announced soon.
Activists defending human rights under pressure: How government restrictions impact on civil society work
We're running an event with the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR). You can find out all thee details and where to register below!
Three human rights defenders from Niger, Pakistan and a country in East Asia discuss the different kinds of pressure and challenges they face from their respective governments when trying to conduct human rights work. They face silencing, surveillance, intimidation and detention - and yet they and their colleagues fight to be heard both in their own countries and internationally. What are their strategies under increasing pressure? How do they make sure to stay safe?
Speakers
Ali Idrissa is the director of ROTAB, a civil society organisation in Niger that works on transparency in the extractive industry sector. He has worked in human rights since the 1990s, and currently focuses on the impact of corruption and pollution in the country's gold and uranium mining sectors.
Urooj Fatima is a Pakistani journalist. She has reported on human rights issues particularly focusing on children's rights, such as sexual abuse and children in armed conflict.
Jessie is an East Asian human rights researcher with six years of experience working in an increasingly restrictive human rights environment.
Protective Fellowship Scheme
All speakers are currently participating in the Protective Fellowship Scheme for human rights defenders at risk at the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR), University of York. The Protective Fellowship Scheme has operated since 2008 and aims at creating medium- to long-term social change in the countries and communities the Fellows come from. During their time at York, the Fellows receive human rights skills training, work on a research project and get opportunities to network with government and civil society organisations in the UK.
Music
Lucy and Rosh, combined songwriting forces in 2019 to make acoustic music that takes from the folk tradition, but tell modern tales of political anger and personal hope. Expect harmonies, crunchy chords and songs for these times.
Agenda
5.30pm - 6.15pm: Arrival with music and pay as you feel food from South Street Kitchen
6.15pm - 6.30pm: Intro to the fellowship scheme and what they do
6.30pm - 7.00pm: Brief intro from each HRD
7.00pm - 7.45pm: Panel discussion with the three HRD’s
The window for the next UK funding round will be open from Monday February 17th until midnight on the 2nd March. All applicants will hear whether they have been successful or unsuccessful by the end of June 2020.
Please note the next UK funding round has been postponed and the window for applications will be open in March 2020. The exact dates will be on our website here in February 2020.