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Action Foundation

Explore and Test: Learning English Together (LET) - ESOL for small groups

  • Grant amount: £60,000.00 over 24 months
  • Fund: Shared Ground Fund
  • Date awarded: 2017/18
  • Location: North East

Action Foundation’s initiative, Learning English Together (LET), will equip churches and other community groups to provide English language support for migrants who face barriers to accessing formal ESOL provision. Action Foundation will develop a social franchise model, providing training, support and resources for small volunteer-run groups to enable them to help migrants and refugees to learn English through practical activities facilitating integration.

African Rainbow Family

More and Better: Core support for African Rainbow Family and Manchester Migrant Solidarity

  • Grant amount: £15,000.00 over 36 months
  • Fund: Shared Ground Fund
  • Date awarded: 2018/19
  • Location: North West

African Rainbow Family is a not-for-profit organisation that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender intersexual and queer people of African heritage and from wider Black, Asian Minority Ethnic groups. Manchester Migrant Solidarity is a self-help group set up as a convergence space for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, offering practical and social mutual support, empowerment and solidarity. This grant will provide both organisations with core support to develop their campaigning work.

Ashley Community Housing

  • Grant amount: £60,000.00 over 18 months
  • Fund: Shared Ground Fund
  • Date awarded: 2017/18
  • Location: South West

Ashley Community Housing will explore and evaluate a Collective Impact approach, bringing together private sector employers, the Bristol Mayor’s Office, the local authority and local refugee community organisations to find solutions that facilitate refugees’ integration into the labour market.

Asylos

More and Better: Providing evidence for asylum claims from young people

  • Grant amount: £131,500.00 over 36 months
  • Fund: Shared Ground Fund
  • Date awarded: 2018/19
  • Location: UK Wide

Asylos is a pan-European volunteer network that trains and support volunteers to research vital country of origin information to help refugees fleeing war, violence, and persecution to claim their right to asylum. This project addresses the lack of high-quality, publicly available and relevant evidence for the asylum claims of children and young people in the UK. By producing case-based and broader country of origin information reports and by training and widening access to its research by legal advisors, caseworkers, and social workers, Asylos will contribute to ensuring that children and young people in need of protection enjoy equal access to justice.

Asylos

Explore and Test: Provide evidence for asylum claims from young people

  • Grant amount: £60,000.00 over 24 months
  • Fund: Shared Ground Fund
  • Date awarded: 2015/16
  • Location: London

Asylos is a pan-European volunteer network that that trains and support volunteers to research vital information to help refugees fleeing war, violence, and persecution to claim their right to asylum. This grant will fund Asylos to trial their model, well tested in France, Belgium and Greece, in the UK. Asylos will support refugee community organisations and lawyers to research country of origin information for young asylum seekers, helping them claim their right to asylum.

 

Asylum Research Centre Foundation

More and Better: Improving standards in the process of determining refugee status

  • Grant amount: £99,000.00 over 36 months
  • Fund: Shared Ground Fund
  • Date awarded: 2018/19
  • Location: London

Asylum Research Centre Foundation works to improve standards in the refugee status determination processes. This grant will support the organisation to provide expert input on policy documents used by government to make decisions on applications for asylum.

Barrow Cadbury Trust

Explore and Test: Birmingham & Black Country: Migration and integration coordination project

  • Grant amount: £60,000.00 over 36 months
  • Fund: Shared Ground Fund
  • Date awarded: 2018/19
  • Location: West Midlands

Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent, charitable foundation committed to bringing about socially just change. This project will test a new coordination and communications model to promote a positive integration agenda in Birmingham and the Black Country, and to support the effective settlement of people who have migrated to the UK. The project aims to bring together local evidence and experience to influence policy.

Bevan Foundation

Explore and Test: Enhancing integration and migration policies in Wales

  • Grant amount: £60,000.00 over 18 months
  • Fund: Shared Ground Fund
  • Date awarded: 2017/18
  • Location: Wales

This project will provide a new approach to integration and migration to Wales. It aims to reflect the circumstances of people who migrate, to examine migration of all kinds, and to sit within the context of wider economic and social trends. The project will help to inform debate, framing it positively, and aims to increase capacity and understanding in civil society and amongst policy-makers.

Bolton Lads and Girls Club

Explore and Test: RISE - Refugee Integration Support and Engagement

  • Grant amount: £60,000.00 over 24 months
  • Fund: Shared Ground Fund
  • Date awarded: 2016/17
  • Location: North East

Bolton Lads and Girls Club is one of the largest youth centres in the UK. It plans to trial a new approach to supporting and integrating young refugees, in partnership with local organisations working with refugees/migrants.  It aims to better meet the social and emotional needs of young refugees and improve relationships between them and young people who have lived in Bolton all their lives, reducing potential tensions. Learning about the role of youth organisations in supporting the integration of young refugees and migrants will be shared widely in the youth and refugee/migrant sectors.

brap

Explore and Test: Living better together

  • Grant amount: £30,000.00 over 12 months
  • Fund: Shared Ground Fund
  • Date awarded: 2016/17
  • Location: West Midlands

brap is an equality and human rights charity, based in Birmingham, which undertakes community engagement, training, research and campaigning. It will explore innovative group facilitation techniques as a way to engage communities experiencing high inward migration more positively in the integration debate. The ‘process work’ method of community dialogue will be used to explore various viewpoints on issues of concern, in particular ‘unheard’ and ‘marginalised’ voices. The aim is to better understand community conflicts, establish meaningful relationships between residents and to inform public sector strategic thinking on migrant integration. Learning will be captured in a guidance document and shared via Birmingham-wide and national events.