Paul Hamlyn Foundation

RECLAIM supports young working-class people living in Greater Manchester to lead change in the systems that limit working class young people’s opportunities. This grant will fund young people to campaign nationally and locally around issues of discrimination, inequality and stigmatisation arising from unfair economic and political systems.

42nd Street supports young people with their emotional wellbeing and mental health. This grant will fund the employment and training of peer-activists who will work with young people experiencing social injustice within mental health and social care systems to devise campaigns to address this.

Beatfreeks equips, enables and empowers young people to create positive change in their lives and communities. This grant contributes to the salaries of staff who will develop REACT, a novel approach to working with young people, which helps them to mobilise quickly and launch art activism responses to issues in their lives and their communities. It will support young people to run events and campaigns, offer a small grants pot to young people for their campaigns, and work with them to amplify the impact and reach of their work.

Children and Young People’s Empowerment Project supports young people to raise awareness of their needs among organisations and service providers. This grant will fund the creation of a Youth Led Social Action Studio and the employment of a Project Co-ordinator to support young people to access leadership and campaign training.

Comics Youth provides comics-based literacy and wellbeing projects for marginalised young people aged 8-25. This grant will support the establishment and running of a young person-led publishing house that will focus on comics and zines which address the systemic injustices faced by young people experiencing mental health concerns especially those from LGBT+ communities.

Forward is an African women-led, UK-based women’s rights organisation that safeguards women and girls who face multiple disadvantages. This grant will fund the development of Forward’s existing youth social action with salary costs for a dedicated Youth Programme lead and the expansion of a leadership training programme to work with young men as well as young women

Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire is a community organisation working with a range of disadvantaged communities. This grant will fund Coventry Young Activists, a group of young adults who experience social isolation to develop, deliver and lead movement building initiatives that address the root causes of loneliness.

Irise works with young people and their communities to end period poverty and shame. Act for Change funding will catalyse a movement of young people, enabling them to change the conversation around periods locally and nationally with the aim that the UK can become a place where everyone can realise their potential, unlimited by their periods.

Just for Kids Law works with and for children and young people to fight for the wider reform needed to secure their legal rights and entitlements. This grant will fund a Youth Engagement Officer to bring together young people who have been excluded from school to organise and undertake social action that will campaign around the educational, emotional and psychological impact of school exclusion.

Kent Refugee Action Network works with young people seeking asylum or with refugee status in Kent. This grant will fund the employment of two young people with refugee status as Youth Ambassadors to engage other young people impacted by the asylum system in developing the organisation and services to influence issues affecting their lives.