Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust

Grant criteria

They particularly welcome applications for work on: Electoral reform - ensuring that citizens’ votes count, turnout is high and elections are fair. Open and responsive democracy - in which executive power is checked by an effective parliament, and power is devolved to the nations, regions and communities. Thriving democratic culture - with respect for diversity, collaboration, informed public debate and participation.

Application procedure

Applications can be made at any time for small grants of up to £7,500 and they have quarterly application rounds for larger grants



Analysis of Grants Made
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In this period 182 donations have been made totalling £7,408,779 to 112 organisations

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Barrow Cadbury Trust 9% 8%
Paul Hamlyn Foundation 8% 6%
The National Lottery Community Fund 6% 10%
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation 5% 7%
Nesta 5% 1%
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust 5% 6%
Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales 5% 4%
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport 4% 5%
BBC Children in Need 4% 3%
AB Charitable Trust 4% 4%
Sole supporter: 78% by number, 78% by value.
Individual Grants Made
When Amount Annual
Spending
Grantee To be used for
26/04/2023 £81,059 LABOUR FOR A NEW DEMOCRACY an uplift & extension to their ongoing grant to achieve decisive support across the whole Labour movement for a manifesto commitment to PR
04/04/2023 £7,225 £772,929 RUNNYMEDE TRUST for a short research project which will seek to better understand whether local authorities are ready to meet their obligations under Voter ID requirements
31/03/2023 £45,761 HANSARD SOCIETY to undertake a review of the customs, procedural rules and use of language in the House of Commons, and then to make recommendations for reform to improve the way the House of Commons operates and make it more accessible to the watching public
31/03/2023 £18,975 THE INSTITUTE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL & DEMOCRATIC RESEARCH to support the work of the APPG for Democracy & the Constitution, specifically the programme of activity related to the Elections Act
31/03/2023 £40,000 LABOUR TOGETHER to prioritise the democratic reform agenda inside the Labour Party
31/03/2023 £40,375 MIGRANTS' RIGHTS NETWORK to support the Words Matter campaign to shift narratives around migration, and enable those with lived experience to speak truth to power
31/03/2023 £39,936 PURPOSE UNION to run a peer-to-peer campaign to inform and encourage universities to adopt automatic opt-in for students to register to vote during enrolment (auto-enrolment) in time for the next academic year, beginning September 2023
31/03/2023 £39,971 REPRIEVE for a targeted campaign to end the unlawful detention of British nationals in North East Syria and secure redress for the abuses they have suffered
31/03/2023 £37,266 WOMEN'S EQUALITY NETWORK (WEN) WALES to run Phase 2 of their Diverse 5050 Campaign with the aim of achieving equal seats and diverse representation in the Senedd
20/02/2023 £7,500 £596,954 PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTRE to fund two expert reports, which will support their legal case on behalf of members of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) against the Secretary of State for the Home Department in keeping the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on the list of proscribed organisations
08/02/2023 £40,822 UNLOCK DEMOCRACY on behalf of the Democracy Defence Coalition (DDC), to run a campaign aimed at persuading the government to either drop its Voter ID plans or ensure they are properly resourced so that voters are not disenfranchised
31/01/2023 £7,500 SEEDS FOR CHANGE to provide training to grassroots groups who are countering increasing authoritarianism, holding state power to account at a local level, and developing the democratic power of marginalised communities
09/12/2022 £45,000 BEST FOR BRITAIN to extend their “Can’t Wait” campaign to build consensus for Proportional Representation
09/12/2022 £85,801 BIG BROTHER WATCH to meet the challenges new and emerging surveillance technologies pose to human rights and democratic culture
09/12/2022 £75,177 £2,727,977 INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH for research, advocacy and influencing to shape the democratic and constitutional reform agenda of progressive political parties (including but not limited to the Labour Party) ahead of the next general election
09/12/2022 £57,000 OPENDEMOCRACY to rapidly scale up their campaign to defend and strengthen freedom of information (FOI)
09/12/2022 £44,000 COVID19 BEREAVED FAMILIES FOR JUSTICE UK to ensure that the Covid 19 inquiry delivers justice to bereaved families, holds the government to account for their actions and provides recommendations that will save lives in future pandemics
09/12/2022 £90,000 £6,435,318 CITIZENS UK to enable and incentivise educational institutions in any part of the UK to use the 100% Registered system and resources to register young people to vote in the run-up to the next general election
09/12/2022 £124,741 POLITICS PROJECT to grow the reach and impact of their Democracy Classroom programme, and to increase the number of young people registering and voting in the upcoming general election
09/12/2022 £28,650 UNLOCK DEMOCRACY to deliver a campaign that helps secure the introduction of Automatic Voter Registration (AVR)
10/11/2022 £76,500 UNLOCK DEMOCRACY to continue work with Compass to secure Labour Party backing for a wide-ranging programme of democratic reforms
30/09/2022 £38,498 OPEN RIGHTS GROUP to challenge ‘prior restraint’ measures in the draft Online Safety Bill
30/09/2022 £64,350 POLICE SPIES OUT OF LIVES to support members through the evidential stages of the Undercover Policing Inquiry and campaign to bring to public attention the assault on democratic protest by undercover police infiltration of activist groups
30/09/2022 £42,500 CONNECTED BY DATA giving communities a powerful and ongoing say in the governance of data and AI
30/09/2022 £35,081 £355,607 RIGHTS & SECURITY INTERNATIONAL Upholding democracy, justice and accountability in Northern Ireland: an urgent campaign to mitigate the negative impacts of the ‘Legacy Bill’
30/09/2022 £51,000 WHO TARGETS ME UK political ads intelligence service
30/09/2022 £50,000 BRITISH IN EUROPE to lobby for the effective and timely implementation of lifelong voting rights for all UK citizens
30/09/2022 £40,000 CAMPAIGN FOR FREEDOM OF INFORMATION to enforce the Freedom of Information Act, and to develop the Campaign’s capacity and resilience
30/09/2022 £11,686 I HAVE A VOICE to further test and refine their peer-led approach to increasing voter registration of 16-18 year olds, in a greater number of educational institutions
30/09/2022 £84,000 POLISH MIGRANTS ORGANISE FOR CHANGE to increase voter registration and turnout among low-propensity Polish and Eastern European migrant women voters and their families
01/09/2022 £43,100 GENERATION RENT to drive awareness of and enable effective targeting of low voting groups, particularly renters, by building a data hub to identify the geographic areas with low voting groups
02/08/2022 £7,415 OUR HOME OUR VOTE to use the 2022 party conference season to re-launch their campaign for residence-based voting rights (RBVR) at the local level
24/06/2022 £47,920 CENTENARY ACTION GROUP to run the Women Count campaign to hold parties accountable for the numbers of diverse women they select to stand in the upcoming General Election
24/06/2022 £50,000 DISABLED PEOPLE AGAINST CUTS to lead a national campaign to counter the threat to democratic rights to protest, hold the state to account and to enable effective and accessible participation by disabled people
24/06/2022 £65,105 FABIAN SOCIETY to fund a year-long campaign that would ‘message test’ key voters’ opinions of different election outcomes, via focus groups and an opinion poll
24/06/2022 £15,275 LABOUR COAST & COUNTRY to develop a network for Labour (& Cooperative) Party members who are also Town, Parish or Community councillors
24/06/2022 £21,744 £438,243 MEDACT to empower patients, and challenge the presence of police, within mental health care
24/06/2022 £30,000 £96,688,000 UNITED RESPONSE to deliver a non-partisan campaign to increase voter participation amongst young (16-25) autistic people who may or may not have a learning disability, and lower-income adults who have either a learning disability, autism or an acquired brain injury
25/03/2022 £300,000 MAKE VOTES MATTER to upscale the Make Votes Matter campaign for Proportional Representation in the House of Commons
25/03/2022 £150,000 LABOUR FOR A NEW DEMOCRACY for a campaign to achieve decisive support across the whole Labour movement for a manifesto commitment to Proportional Representation
25/03/2022 £112,405 LIBERAL DEMOCRATS to strengthen central campaigning capability and infrastructure
25/03/2022 £64,999 WINDRUSH DEFENDERS LEGAL to produce a campaign to implement the WD Protocol, to shape policy and law proposals for righting the wrongs done to the Windrush Generation and their descendants
25/03/2022 £78,352 UNDERCOVER RESARCH GROUP to continue to press the Undercover Policing Inquiry for a more critical, open and investigative approach going forward
15/03/2022 £7,450 POLISH MIGRANTS ORGANISE FOR CHANGE for listening sessions, strategic place-based canvassing and voter engagement, and bringing together key stakeholders, including electoral registration officers, to increase voter engagement among Polish women
23/02/2022 £7,500 DEFENDDIGITALME to research how widespread biometric technology has become in schools and the effectiveness or deficiency of the law and enforcement in supporting children’s rights
17/02/2022 £22,786 £5,630,941 CITIZENS UK (CYMRU) to build scalable models of institution-based and online voter registration between February and June 2022
09/02/2022 £16,050 ASPIRE & SUCCEED to develop a network of engaged groups and individuals in Central Birmingham to engage the community in voter registration efforts
09/02/2022 £13,980 BANGLADESHI WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF WALES to build a network of empowered women across Wales, who can represent their communities and build a stronger, more inclusive and representative democracy, and to promote democratic participation through voter registration and engagement
09/02/2022 £13,010 £264,830 SOUTHERN WOMEN'S AID NETWORK to fund the hiring of a network manager and the costs of developing a network aimed specifically at voter registration
18/01/2022 £6,550 I HAVE A VOICE CIC to trial the effectiveness of peer-based interventions that promote voter registration and turnout in five further education institutes
17/12/2021 £7,500 THE INSTITUTE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL & DEMOCRATIC RESEARCH AND THE APPG FOR DEMOCRACY & THE CONSTITUTION to hold an inquiry examining the state of the separation of powers in the UK constitution
03/12/2021 £299,617 ASSOCIATION OF LIBERAL DEMOCRAT COUNCILLORS (ALDC) to support the activities of the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors over three years and specifically to continue the work of their regional development officers
03/12/2021 £30,000 MANIFESTO CLUB for a campaign to increase scrutiny and accountability of local authorities’ use of enforcement powers
03/12/2021 £64,067 OPENDEMOCRACY for a campaign to increase transparency, accountability and to protect Freedom of Information (FOI) in the UK, against a backdrop of increasing government secrecy and pushback against basic information rights
21/10/2021 £7,500 FAIR VOTE UK Democracy Defence Coalition: Communications Manager
20/10/2021 £7,500 AFTER EXPLOITATION to secure immediate political support against the Government’s New Plan for Immigration, on the basis of its impact on survivors of modern slavery
01/10/2021 £195,600 ALLIANCE PARTY OF NORTHERN IRELAND support for the Alliance Party’s development and campaigning over three years
01/10/2021 £65,000 £2,502,572 INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH to ensure progressive political parties go into the next general election with a recognition of the importance of democratic renewal
01/10/2021 £147,700 DEMOCRACY VOLUNTEERS to recruit, train and deploy observers for local and national elections
01/10/2021 £65,971 CONSTITUTION UNIT, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON to support the salary of their Network Coordinator to build capacity among parliamentarians in defence of constitutional democratic principles
28/09/2021 £7,500 ANOTHER EUROPE IS POSSIBLE for a project which can bring together the story of Brexit’s repercussions in real time, linking in with practical action and campaigns around what is happening
29/07/2021 £18,000 £756,567 BRITISH YOUTH COUNCIL to develop MPs’ support for Votes at 16
21/07/2021 £12,500 IMPACT ACCELERATOR LTD (BREAKTHROUGH) to provide support to the grassroots campaign, #HandsOffOurVote, to challenge plans to introduce compulsory photographic ID at polling stations
21/07/2021 £7,500 IMPACT ACCELERATOR LTD (BREAKTHROUGH) to provide coaching and training on how to develop impactful campaigns and to support mapping and connecting to other organisations
20/07/2021 £7,436 OPEN RIGHTS GROUP for a UK-wide campaign that will inform and mobilise public activism against government and regulatory over-reach within the Online Safety Bill
25/06/2021 £47,466 NETPOL LTD to campaign to protect the right to protest and for the adoption and implementation of a Charter for Freedom of Assembly Rights
25/06/2021 £36,192 £3,310,914 REPRIEVE to deliver a one-year high-impact campaign with the goal of securing the repatriation of all British nationals currently detained in North East Syria
25/06/2021 £53,336 £3,336,449 THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW to carry out a collaborative and focused campaign to build the constitution back better by proactively facilitating the rediscovery of shared constitutional values in the UK
25/06/2021 £80,000 UNLOCK DEMOCRACY to form a strategic partnership with Compass to drive a democratic reform agenda in and around the Labour Party
24/06/2021 £7,500 £1,080,329 FRIENDS OF THE EARTH to help coordinate civil society responses to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
13/05/2021 £7,000 JUST TREATMENT to scale up a campaign demanding democratic accountability in the NHS and wider health sector
10/05/2021 £7,500 THE3MILLION, YOUNG EUROPEANS NETWORK for a comprehensive research project into the mechanisms that can facilitate equal, inclusive, representative civic and democratic participation that can ensure Londoners trust and take part in social action and decisions impacting them, their families, their communities and their city
29/04/2021 £350,000 £1,597,665 INVOLVE to establish and coordinate a Network for Democracy across the UK
22/04/2021 £25,000 NEWSPEAK HOUSE / ORIGINAL CONTENT LONDON to ensure the continued viability of Newspeak House as a focal point for democracy sector convening
30/03/2021 £7,474 THE INSTITUTE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL & DEMOCRATIC RESEARCH AND THE APPG FOR DEMOCRACY & THE CONSTITUTION to conduct a 5-week inquiry into the extent to which constitutional rights to free expression and peaceful assembly were respected by The Metropolitan Police at the Clapham Common vigil for Sarah Everard on Saturday 13 March 2021
26/03/2021 £94,489 ACTIVATE COLLECTIVE to create a programme to support a pipeline of politically active women from under-represented groups
26/03/2021 £58,000 FAIR VOTE UK to make improvements to the Government’s Online Harms and Electoral Integrity Bills
26/03/2021 £52,839 £129,189 MIGRANTS' RIGHTS NETWORK to run a Migrant Leadership Programme to support and encourage greater civic participation from members of migrant communities and enable them to speak truth to power
26/03/2021 £14,929 OPEN RIGHTS GROUP for work before, during and after the Scottish Parliamentary elections in May 2021 in order to ensure fair campaigning practices and to use the election to assist in establishing a digital rights agenda in the next Scottish Parliament that is responsive to citizens’ needs
26/03/2021 £15,000 PATIENT EXPERIENCE LIBRARY (GLENSTALL IT) to help strengthen patients’ rights and patient voice under the NHS constitution
26/03/2021 £18,750 REFUGEE, ASYLUM & MIGRATION POLICY PROJECT (RAMP) to help avoid another “Windrush-style” crisis for EU citizens resident in the UK who miss the deadline to apply for the EU Settlement Scheme
26/03/2021 £30,000 THE CITIZENS to run and test a media hub pilot to provide support for expert media commentary on government cronyism
26/03/2021 £29,750 £155,349 WOMEN'S EQUALITY NETWORK WALES to influence the programme for Government and the selections and manifestos for local elections, due to be held in May 2022
15/03/2021 £6,810 £684,604 NATIONAL YOUTH ARTS WALES to deliver a year-long season of creative responses on the theme of youth empowerment and youth voice
15/03/2021 £25,000 ALLIANCE PARTY OF NORTHERN IRELAND to the end of October 2021 to sustain their campaigning infrastructure on an interim basis
15/03/2021 £6,620 £4,921,587 CITIZENS UK to extend UK Democracy Fund project to increase the democratic participation of young people in PCC, Mayoral and local elections taking place in May (see 360G-JRRT-1933-3933) COVID extension
15/03/2021 £7,500 SORTITION FOUNDATION to support the collaborative development of a shared language to persuade the public of the importance of democratic reform
26/02/2021 £1,700 VOTING COUNTS to promote content covering elections happening in 2021 on their online voting hub, in order to inform young voters
19/01/2021 £7,440 FABIAN SOCIETY to establish the position of key Labour stakeholders on Federalism
18/01/2021 £7,500 UNLOCK DEMOCRACY to research the impact successive governments have had on the independence and effectiveness of local authorities
17/12/2020 £7,500 £2,840,140 FAIRSHARE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION for a campaign to build a vision of AGMs fit for a future world of stakeholder capitalism
15/12/2020 £7,500 MANIFESTO CLUB for a campaign to increase democracy and scrutiny of local authorities’ use of coronavirus (COVID-19) and other pseudo-policing powers
11/12/2020 £50,500 ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE to compel the full implementation of the law and to establish abortion in Northern Ireland within a positive justice, health and rights framework
11/12/2020 £53,400 CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE to create and operate a secure whistleblower portal to empower internal dissidents within social media companies
11/12/2020 £50,000 FOXGLOVE for their ‘Democracy Not Technocracy’ project, which aims to give the public a say and create regional resistance to government use of permissionless mass data systems
11/12/2020 £53,350 GOOD LAW PROJECT to scale ongoing work to challenge the procurement practices of Government during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic by hiring an investigator or investigative journalist for 12 months to examine particularly egregious contracts and companies awarded significant sums of public money
11/12/2020 £65,199 OPENDEMOCRACY to support its campaign "Challenging COVID cronyism" to expose and challenge the abuse of extraordinary COVID-19 powers by governments and corporations – and to prevent these bad practices from ‘bedding in’ to our governance in the longer term, particularly with regards to the NHS
11/12/2020 £52,800 WHO TARGETS ME to help them research and report on UK elections in 2021 and to help them advance the cause of greater transparency in online political advertising through continuing advocacy, thought-leadership and coalition building
11/12/2020 £26,445 I HAVE A VOICE CIC to deliver ‘Local matters’, a youth engagement programme for local elections in England in May 2021
11/12/2020 £93,240 THE POLITICS PROJECT to develop and maintain an election resources platform for educators; train and support teachers to engage their students in elections; and build and maintain a schools’ support network
11/12/2020 £25,000 THE3MILLION to run a targeted political rights programme to mobilise EU voters in the 2021 local elections in England
02/10/2020 £39,920 £329,106 BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS OF WALES to engage newly enfranchised 16 and 17 year olds in Senedd elections in May 2021, through a programme of education built around an e-learning module and youth hustings
02/10/2020 £35,332 £4,921,587 CITIZENS UK to run a voter registration drive in colleges and sixth forms in Wales
02/10/2020 £33,650 £11,312,931 URDD GOBAITH CYMRU to inform 10,000 young people about how to vote, and encourage 6,000 to register to vote using their network of youth and community officers in every Local Authority in Wales and a social media campaign with youth-created content
02/10/2020 £33,030 DEMOCRACY VOLUNTEERS to recruit, train and deploy observers for the elections across the UK in 2021
02/10/2020 £47,424 POLICE SPIES OUT OF LIVES to support members through the evidential stages of the Undercover Policing Inquiry and to campaign to bring to public attention the assault on democratic protest by undercover police infiltration of activist groups
02/10/2020 £56,068 50:50 PARLIAMENT to strengthen and expand their ‘New Girls Network’, a system to mentor and monitor women’s progress into politics
02/10/2020 £20,000 DRONE WARS UK to ensure that privacy protection and democratic accountability is central to the UK government’s plans to open UK airspace to military, state and commercial use of ‘Beyond Visual Line of Sight’ (BVLOS) drones
02/10/2020 £84,540 BIG BROTHER WATCH to pursue their Protecting Rights and Democracy Post-Covid campaign to meet the great challenges of the pandemic context
02/10/2020 £45,546 £250,441 THE TRAVELLER MOVEMENT to build skills and knowledge of democratic processes among Gypsy, Roma and Irish Traveller (GRT) people
02/10/2020 £48,000 GENERATION RENT to address the democratic deficit that exists between local authorities and private renters by working with five local authorities to develop a best practice model, or models, of private renter consultation and engagement that can be tested and piloted in each local authority area
02/10/2020 £29,983 £1,245,906 ETHNIC YOUTH SUPPORT TEAM to run an engagement programme to ensure BAME young people (aged 16-25) are registered and turnout to vote in the upcoming Welsh parliament elections
02/10/2020 £39,912 NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY to test and demonstrate the impact on participation rates of different interventions to engage newly enfranchised young people in Wales
02/10/2020 £98,407 ASSOCIATION OF LIBERAL DEMOCRAT COUNCILLORS (ALDC) in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the postponement of the 2020 local elections to May 2021, to further develop the campaign infrastructure of ALDC and to continue to support four part-time Development Officers (see aso 360G-JRRT-223-3496)
06/08/2020 £7,500 GENERATION RENT to campaign for protections for renters who are suffering financially due to Covid-19 and are now facing eviction, and to develop a framework for making renters’ voices heard by policymakers
21/07/2020 £7,276 THE3MILLION to fund a mapping research project on EU citizens’ demographic distribution and democratic participation in the UK
21/07/2020 £7,000 £3,310,914 REPRIEVE to deliver the public-facing element of their campaign to ensure the Overseas Operations Bill does not decriminalise torture
26/06/2020 £65,241 CENTENARY ACTION GROUP to promote the benefits of virtual parliament measures for women and minorities
26/06/2020 £79,000 CENTRE FOR PUBLIC DATA PRACTICE to empower campaigners to challenge power through rigorous data
26/06/2020 £36,000 DEFENDDIGITALME to continue work on children’s digital rights
26/06/2020 £42,728 £1,026,196 THE FAWCETT SOCIETY to influence the UK and devolved Government responses to the Covid-19 crisis and the plans for renewal which follow, ensuring a gendered approach
26/06/2020 £12,500 £525,474 JO COX FOUNDATION to support the second year of the Civility in Politics awards to reward and encourage (more) civil political discourse in the UK
26/06/2020 £67,250 UNDERCOVER RESEARCH GROUP to drive the debate around the policing of protest in our society and the shrinking space for dissent
26/06/2020 £33,905 POLISH MIGRANTS ORGANISE FOR CHANGE to increase the voter participation of Polish women in three Mayoral elections (London, Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region)
26/06/2020 £38,884 £3,243,005 SCOTTISH REFUGEE COUNCIL to ensure that all refugees are registered to vote and encouraged to participate in Scottish Parliamentary elections in May 2021
23/06/2020 £5,250 JOE MITCHELL to undertake a short research project testing the assumption that a democracy network would be effective
01/06/2020 £7,500 £4,630,411 INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT for a short piece of work on the status and future of the Sewel Convention, under which Westminster does not normally legislate in devolved areas without devolved consent
01/06/2020 £58,713 OPENDEMOCRACY to expose and challenge abuse of power across the UK related to the Covid-19 pandemic
22/05/2020 £7,500 DEMOCRACY VOLUNTEERS to support ongoing work concerning 2021 UK elections during the Covid-19 pandemic
22/05/2020 £35,000 ACORN to engage renters and the vulnerably housed in democratic processes, specifically Mayoral elections in May 2021; Covid-19 grant, extension to 360G-JRRT-1990-3930
18/05/2020 £4,419 ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE to develop an abortion self-care programme
14/05/2020 £60,000 PUBLIC INTEREST NEWS FOUNDATION towards an emergency fund, which will be used to make small grants to independent news providers who are at risk of collapse as a result of the COVID-19 crisis
23/04/2020 £20,000 £1,572,946 TWO RIDINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION to contribute to the COVID-19 emergency response in York
27/03/2020 £40,000 £3,336,449 THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW to co-ordinate and amplify the Rule of Law work of parliamentarians, and to maximise the impact of the work of the Rule of Law Monitoring Project
27/03/2020 £32,948 ORGANISE to influence and amend government legislation – starting with the Employment Bill – in order to protect workers’ rights standards post-Brexit
27/03/2020 £42,500 FAIR VOTE UK (LET’S TAKE BACK CONTROL LIMITED) to reform UK, Scottish and Welsh electoral law and the wider regulatory regime to safeguard elections from the fresh challenges posed by technology
27/03/2020 £50,000 CAMPAIGN FOR FREEDOM OF INFORMATION to defend the public’s existing rights to information under the Freedom of Information Act and improve enforcement of the Act by the Information Commissioner’s Office
08/02/2020 £3,750 CAMPAIGN FOR PRESS & BROADCASTING FREEDOM (NORTH) towards the cost of a national conference and a series of follow-up media reform initiatives
21/01/2020 £7,000 UNLOCK DEMOCRACY to organise an Activist Conference in May 2020, to engage and support a core of new activists
16/01/2020 £7,440 £50,307 VOICE4CHANGE ENGLAND to campaign against the introduction of voter ID, working with the Electoral Reform Society
15/01/2020 £7,500 BULGARIAN CENTRE FOR SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND CULTURE to overcome marginalisation of the Bulgarian and Roma community in Edmonton through activities encouraging them to vote in the upcoming London Mayoral election
06/12/2019 £45,000 THE ACTIVATE COLLECTIVE to build capacity and pilot a programme to recruit, champion and fund female community activists from disabled, low income and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds
06/12/2019 £51,000 ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE to continue effective campaigning for abortion access and destigmatisation in Northern Ireland
06/12/2019 £19,050 THE POLITICS PROJECT to test ‘digital hustings’ that can engage more young people in the Mayoral elections in Greater Manchester and London in May 2020. COVID19 variation: Mayoral elections delayed to May 2021; year-long grant extension agreed to end July 2021
06/12/2019 £26,453 NETPOL LTD to address fundamental issues of concern relating to the way that protests are categorised and policed
06/12/2019 £60,094 IMPRESS to create the Public Interest News Foundation in order to increase public awareness of the value of independent journalism and build capacity among independent news publishers (start date delayed due to COVID-19; moved from 01/04/20 to 01/10/20)
06/12/2019 £55,384 PROFESSOR PETER JOHN, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON to use randomised controlled trials to find out how to increase the electoral participation of low-voter-registration groups
05/12/2019 £7,500 REPRESENT US LTD to increase engagement with tactical voting
03/12/2019 £7,500 FUTURE ADVOCACY to investigate the impact of the police’s use of live facial recognition technology (FRT) on minority groups in the UK
18/11/2019 £7,500 CAMPAIGN TOGETHER to train 10,000 progressive canvassers to help progressive front runners win in 50 marginal seats at the 2019 General Election
14/11/2019 £14,800 £402,293 RUNNYMEDE TRUST WITH VOICE4CHANGE ENGLAND to run a research and voter participation project for BAME communities at the snap General Election
13/11/2019 £7,500 COMPASS to build an ambitious national campaign around the opportunity of a general election to develop support inside and outside Parliament for a Citizens’ Convention
08/11/2019 £7,500 £922,374 THE FAWCETT SOCIETY to fund a coalition of women’s groups to raise the profile of women’s issues during the 2019 General Election and publish a women’s manifesto
08/11/2019 £7,500 GENERATION RENT to make renting (and housing more widely) a central issue at the election by showing mass public support for their Renter Manifesto
08/11/2019 £7,500 POLIMONITOR to capture, measure and highlight the public hate speech on Twitter directed towards candidates standing in the 2019 General Election
08/11/2019 £16,500 SHOUT OUT UK to engage the most disengaged young people in the snap General Election, through the ‘No Vote, No Voice’ music project
07/11/2019 £7,500 DEMOCRACY VOLUNTEERS to deploy 200 observers across a combination of the most marginal constituencies and those seats which have high profile campaigns and recent cases of electoral fraud and malpractice during the General Election
07/11/2019 £50,000 ALLIANCE PARTY OF NORTHERN IRELAND towards campaigning in the snap Westminster elections
07/11/2019 £3,000 OPERATION VOTEY MCVOTEFACE to employ a northern organiser for the duration of the General Election campaign in order to get more live-aboard canal and river boat travellers to register and vote
05/11/2019 £7,500 ANOTHER EUROPE IS POSSIBLE to capitalise on the energy and momentum of the recent emergent protest movement to develop a progressive policy platform and deepen democratic participation
21/10/2019 £7,500 £599,231 MIGRANTS ORGANISE LTD to fund a public voter registration drive that encourages migrant and BAME communities to register
04/10/2019 £64,770 £4,921,587 CITIZENS UK to run voter registration and turnout drives using their organising approach in 25 young people’s institutions
04/10/2019 £26,215 £113,249 MY LIFE MY SAY to motivate disengaged young people to participate in elections
04/10/2019 £38,085 OPENDEMOCRACY to expose and challenge abuses of Britain’s democratic system during the next election campaign
04/10/2019 £33,960 WHO TARGETS ME to help research, understand and report on the use of political social media (particularly Facebook) advertising during any forthcoming General Election
04/10/2019 £70,000 VOTE FOR YOUR FUTURE to increase youth participation in elections by targeting universities and by digital advertising and brand partnerships
04/10/2019 £43,295 ACORN to undertake a programme of voter registration and turnout activity targeted at renters and other vulnerably housed people in four cities in the UK
04/10/2019 £12,000 HARRY FLETCHER to continue to campaign for a better deal for victims of crime and to ensure that the victims’ code is enshrined in law
04/10/2019 £38,250 STOP FUNDING FAKE NEWS to transform their initiative targeting misinformation platforms into a sustainable and professional operation
04/10/2019 £25,665 DEMOCRACY VOLUNTEERS to make an exhaustive study of all aspects of the election process in the 2020 London mayoral election
03/09/2019 £17,000 SHOUT OUT UK to promote Political Literacy and help young people become politically aware of key debates and issues in democratic life and gain knowledge of fundamental political principles, regardless of ideology. COVID19 variation: full year extension from 31 July 2020 to 31 July 2021
03/09/2019 £31,950 THE POLITICS PROJECT to support young people to register/vote in upcoming elections, and to test the impacts of different schools-based voter participation tools. COVID19 variation: grant extension to end December 2020 (previously end May 2020)
01/08/2019 £6,900 VOTE FOR POLICIES in partnership with British Youth Council to run a pilot program to create a new category that groups policies relevant to young people, which will be published online, and promoted directly to young people via their programmes and wider networks. COVID19 variation: New partner organisation (originally UK Youth) plus extension to 31 January 2021 (originally six-month grant to end April 2020)
26/06/2019 £7,000 E3G to bring together senior representatives from the climate and democratic communities at an invitation-only event as part of London Climate Action Week (1–5 July), to build a shared understating of the anti-democratic threats to climate action and a political strategy for tackling them
21/06/2019 £24,000 MEDCONFIDENTIAL to campaign for confidentiality and consent regarding data in health and social care
21/06/2019 £32,084 BIG BROTHER WATCH to support an overarching data, rights and democracy campaign to combat current data-based threats to human rights and democratic culture in the UK, both online and offline
21/06/2019 £34,600 50:50 PARLIAMENT to campaign to ensure women have equal seats and equal say in Parliament
21/06/2019 £58,000 THE3MILLION to secure the voting rights of 3.6 million citizens from EU27 countries in anticipation of Brexit. COVID19 variation: two-month grant extension from end June 2020 to end August 2020
21/06/2019 £45,973 CENTENARY ACTION GROUP to deliver a significant advance in the treatment and representation of women in politics. COVID19 variation: two-month grant extension to 31 October 2020 from 31 August 2020
21/06/2019 £19,000 DARREN JONES MP to expand the work of Labour Digital and to place it on a sustainable footing
10/06/2019 £7,500 £525,474 JO COX FOUNDATION to create the Civility in Politics awards to reward and encourage (more) civil political discourse in the UK
29/04/2019 £7,500 £4,575,406 INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT to produce authoritative analysis to further our understanding of how devolution has and hasn’t worked over the past twenty years
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Cumulative Grants
Amount Grantee
£398,024 ASSOCIATION OF LIBERAL DEMOCRAT COUNCILLORS (ALDC)
£350,000 INVOLVE
£300,000 MAKE VOTES MATTER
£283,064 OPENDEMOCRACY
£270,600 ALLIANCE PARTY OF NORTHERN IRELAND
£268,981 POLITICS PROJECT
£240,472 UNLOCK DEMOCRACY
£231,059 LABOUR FOR A NEW DEMOCRACY
£221,395 DEMOCRACY VOLUNTEERS
£219,508 CITIZENS UK
£202,425 BIG BROTHER WATCH
£159,134 CENTENARY ACTION GROUP
£145,602 UNDERCOVER RESARCH GROUP
£140,177 INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
£139,489 ACTIVATE COLLECTIVE
£125,355 POLISH MIGRANTS ORGANISE FOR CHANGE
£112,405 LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
£111,774 POLICE SPIES OUT OF LIVES
£108,000 FAIR VOTE UK
£106,100 GENERATION RENT
£105,919 ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE
£103,800 WHO TARGETS ME
£97,776 THE3MILLION, YOUNG EUROPEANS NETWORK
£93,336 THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW
£93,214 MIGRANTS' RIGHTS NETWORK
£90,668 50:50 PARLIAMENT
£90,000 CAMPAIGN FOR FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
£83,163 REPRIEVE
£79,000 CENTRE FOR PUBLIC DATA PRACTICE
£78,295 ACORN
£73,919 NETPOL LTD
£72,545 FABIAN SOCIETY
£70,000 VOTE FOR YOUR FUTURE
£67,016 WOMEN'S EQUALITY NETWORK (WEN) WALES
£65,971 CONSTITUTION UNIT, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
£64,999 WINDRUSH DEFENDERS LEGAL
£60,863 OPEN RIGHTS GROUP
£60,094 IMPRESS
£60,000 PUBLIC INTEREST NEWS FOUNDATION
£55,384 PROFESSOR PETER JOHN, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
£53,400 CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE
£53,350 GOOD LAW PROJECT
£50,228 THE FAWCETT SOCIETY
£50,000 FOXGLOVE
£50,000 DISABLED PEOPLE AGAINST CUTS
£50,000 BRITISH IN EUROPE
£45,761 HANSARD SOCIETY
£45,546 THE TRAVELLER MOVEMENT
£45,000 BEST FOR BRITAIN
£44,681 I HAVE A VOICE
£44,000 COVID19 BEREAVED FAMILIES FOR JUSTICE UK
£43,500 DEFENDDIGITALME
£42,500 CONNECTED BY DATA
£40,000 LABOUR TOGETHER
£39,936 PURPOSE UNION
£39,920 BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS OF WALES
£39,912 NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY
£38,884 SCOTTISH REFUGEE COUNCIL
£38,250 STOP FUNDING FAKE NEWS
£37,500 MANIFESTO CLUB
£35,081 RIGHTS & SECURITY INTERNATIONAL
£33,960 WHO TARGETS ME
£33,949 THE INSTITUTE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL & DEMOCRATIC RESEARCH
£33,650 URDD GOBAITH CYMRU
£33,500 SHOUT OUT UK
£32,948 ORGANISE
£30,000 UNITED RESPONSE
£30,000 THE CITIZENS
£29,983 ETHNIC YOUTH SUPPORT TEAM
£26,215 MY LIFE MY SAY
£25,000 NEWSPEAK HOUSE / ORIGINAL CONTENT LONDON
£24,000 MEDCONFIDENTIAL
£22,025 RUNNYMEDE TRUST
£21,744 MEDACT
£20,000 TWO RIDINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
£20,000 JO COX FOUNDATION
£20,000 IMPACT ACCELERATOR LTD (BREAKTHROUGH)
£20,000 DRONE WARS UK
£19,000 DARREN JONES MP
£18,750 REFUGEE, ASYLUM & MIGRATION POLICY PROJECT (RAMP)
£18,000 BRITISH YOUTH COUNCIL
£16,050 ASPIRE & SUCCEED
£15,275 LABOUR COAST & COUNTRY
£15,000 PATIENT EXPERIENCE LIBRARY (GLENSTALL IT)
£15,000 INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT
£15,000 ANOTHER EUROPE IS POSSIBLE
£13,980 BANGLADESHI WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF WALES
£13,010 SOUTHERN WOMEN'S AID NETWORK
£12,000 HARRY FLETCHER
£7,500 SORTITION FOUNDATION
£7,500 SEEDS FOR CHANGE
£7,500 REPRESENT US LTD
£7,500 PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTRE
£7,500 POLIMONITOR
£7,500 MIGRANTS ORGANISE LTD
£7,500 FUTURE ADVOCACY
£7,500 FRIENDS OF THE EARTH
£7,500 FAIRSHARE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
£7,500 COMPASS
£7,500 CAMPAIGN TOGETHER
£7,500 BULGARIAN CENTRE FOR SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND CULTURE
£7,500 AFTER EXPLOITATION
£7,440 VOICE4CHANGE ENGLAND
£7,415 OUR HOME OUR VOTE
£7,000 JUST TREATMENT
£7,000 E3G
£6,900 VOTE FOR POLICIES
£6,810 NATIONAL YOUTH ARTS WALES
£5,250 JOE MITCHELL
£3,750 CAMPAIGN FOR PRESS & BROADCASTING FREEDOM (NORTH)
£3,000 OPERATION VOTEY MCVOTEFACE
£1,700 VOTING COUNTS
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