| 02/07/2024 |
£10,000 |
COMMON KNOWLEDGE COOPERATIVE |
to continue their work building on their tool, Mapped, which provides campaign data support |
| 21/06/2024 |
£69,678 |
BIG BROTHER WATCH |
for their campaign to secure meaningful legal changes to protect human rights and the UK’s democracy under the forthcoming government in the context of two new applications of surveillance technology – facial recognition and workplace surveillance |
| 21/06/2024 |
£75,903£4,051,116 |
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW |
to produce an analysis of the key legislative retrogressions to the rule of law between 2010–2024 and present well-researched and stress-tested proposals for reversing a strategically chosen set of them |
| 21/06/2024 |
£50,183 |
CENTENARY ACTION GROUP |
to run MISSION 2028, a campaign to work across, and with, government, parliament and the political parties to deliver on the cross-party supported pledge of a gender equal parliament by 2028 |
| 21/06/2024 |
£40,000 |
LABOUR FOR A NEW DEMOCRACY |
to continue building networks, support and organisation amongst Labour’s PPCs for Proportional Representation; to strengthen relationships with, and pro-PR advocacy by, trade union leaders and their political officers; and to continue dialogue and negotiations with other key party stakeholders |
| 21/06/2024 |
£60,000 |
OPENDEMOCRACY |
to make political reforms which are essential for the integrity and accountability of British democracy |
| 21/06/2024 |
£39,972£3,720,994 |
REPRIEVE |
to continue delivering their campaign to end the unlawful detention of British nationals in North East Syria and secure their repatriation to the UK |
| 21/06/2024 |
£36,172£430,622 |
WOMEN'S EQUALITY NETWORK (WEN) WALES |
to continue their Diverse5050 campaign for equality and diversity in Welsh politics |
| 21/06/2024 |
£59,721 |
MIGRANT DEMOCRACY PROJECT |
to advance the Our Home Our Vote campaign for residence-based voting rights |
| 19/06/2024 |
£10,000 |
POLITICS IN ACTION |
for an event to officially launch their campaign for Votes at 16 in Northern Ireland |
| 05/06/2024 |
£30,000 |
UNLOCK DEMOCRACY (ROAD TO PR COALITION) |
to reinforce the Road to PR’s existing fundraising capacity and to support key activities central to the success of Road to PR until additional external financial support is secured |
| 03/06/2024 |
£5,080£1,873,584 |
GINGERBREAD |
to encourage voter registration and turnout amongst single parents |
| 29/05/2024 |
£10,000£6,559,507 |
BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE |
to expand their pilot and approach to register more Black and Asian voters and empower young people from predominantly marginalised and lower socioeconomic communities to lead the conversations |
| 07/05/2024 |
£9,300 |
DEMOCRACY CLUB |
to crowdsource and publish physical election leaflets online during the 2024 UK elections |
| 05/04/2024 |
£45,000 |
CONSOLIDATE |
to expand their current interactive database which sheds light on the flow of money and other affiliations between the government and the private sector |
| 05/04/2024 |
£44,950 |
FERRET MEDIA |
to investigate the influence that conspiracy thinking and the ‘culture war’ is having on Scotland’s political landscape |
| 05/04/2024 |
£45,000 |
HILLSBOROUGH LAW NOW |
to continue campaigning for a Public Authorities Accountability Bill |
| 05/04/2024 |
£75,000£2,154,493 |
INVOLVE (DEMOCRACY NETWORK) |
to run a wide-reaching public facing campaign, ‘Make Politics Work for Us’, in the run-up to and following a 2024 General Election |
| 05/04/2024 |
£74,875£3,425,774 |
INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH |
to undertake a programme of research, advocacy and influencing to shape the political and constitutional reform agenda of the next UK government |
| 05/04/2024 |
£20,754 |
OPEN RIGHTS GROUP |
to ensure that marginalised voices are at the heart of a pre-election mobilisation project to pave the way for stronger digital rights protections from the next UK Government |
| 05/04/2024 |
£48,792 |
WATCHDOG |
for their campaign to protect and strengthen the public’s right to know |
| 05/04/2024 |
£55,500 |
WHO TARGETS ME |
to increase accountability of online political advertising in the 2024 General Election campaign |
| 05/04/2024 |
£94,588 |
UNDERCOVER RESEARCH GROUP |
to engage intensively with the final phases of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI), and to maximise the impact URG has on its final report and recommendations |
| 05/04/2024 |
£50,187£215,802 |
MY LIFE MY SAY |
to enhance the Give an X campaign, collaboratively spearheaded by My Life My Say, the iWill Movement, and Shape History, to register and mobilise young voters for the upcoming election - specifically through brand partnerships |
| 05/04/2024 |
£88,284 |
POLITICS PROJECT |
to extend their Democracy Classroom programmes, providing crucial support that delivers voter registrations at scale across the democracy and youth sectors |
| 05/04/2024 |
£34,288 |
PURPOSE UNION |
to increase the number of students who are registered to vote, by spreading awareness and engagement with the process of auto-enrolment with further education (FE) colleges |
| 18/03/2024 |
£10,000£447,902 |
TRAVELLER MOVEMENT |
for their “Operation Traveller Vote" campaign, which aims to significantly increase voter registration among Romani (Gypsy), Roma and Irish Travellers in anticipation of the 2024 local and general elections |
| 12/03/2024 |
£10,000 |
FORWARD ACTION |
for a pilot to test digital organising to register 1,500 eligible but unregistered students, to motivate them to register to vote ahead of the next General Election and ultimately, to mobilise them to vote on election day |
| 04/03/2024 |
£9,840 |
SCOTTISH BEACON (GREATER GOVANHILL CIC) |
to provide training around people-powered election coverage to publication partners working in independent community-based media outlets all around Scotland |
| 08/02/2024 |
£10,000 |
CONSOLIDATE |
to enhance transparency in UK politics by creating a comprehensive database and interactive dashboard to provide detailed insights into the financial interests of MPs and Lords |
| 08/12/2023 |
£33,142 |
POLITICS IN ACTION |
to develop and promote a Votes at 16 Campaign in Northern Ireland by raising the issue of votes for 16- and 17-year-olds onto the political, media and civil society agenda |
| 08/12/2023 |
£75,000£1,689,879 |
BLACK EQUITY ORGANISATION |
to maximise the engagement of Black and minority voters with the forthcoming general election, promoting Black voices, and increasing Black and minority voter registrations and to lead on the development of a Black manifesto |
| 08/12/2023 |
£75,000 |
OPERATION BLACK VOTE |
to establish six local voter registration campaigns and conduct national and international Voter Registration, Information, and Mobilisation (VRIM) campaigns for the 2024 UK General, Mayoral, regional, and Police Crime Commissioner elections in South Wales, targeting African, Caribbean, and Asian heritage communities |
| 08/12/2023 |
£72,249 |
CONSTITUTION UNIT UCL |
to prepare and promote detailed implementation plans for constitutional reform by the next government, ahead of the pending General Election |
| 08/12/2023 |
£60,000 |
CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE |
to help UK civil society counter online abuse, disinformation and trolling, and to engage Ofcom to strengthen regulation for social media ahead of a 2024 UK election |
| 08/12/2023 |
£50,000 |
CONNECTED BY DATA |
to grow and mobilise an effective civil society campaigning network in the UK to jointly campaign to protect citizens’ and communities’ rights over the data that underpins and fuels AI in the run up to the next General Election |
| 08/12/2023 |
£40,000 |
MANIFESTO CLUB |
to build a public network to oppose unaccountable and overbearing controls in public spaces |
| 09/11/2023 |
£10,000 |
GENEWATCH UK |
to prevent the negative impacts on privacy and human rights of the Government’s proposed Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, and to make parliament and government more accountable and responsive to citizens’ concerns |
| 06/10/2023 |
£17,000£6,559,507 |
BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE (THE AGENCY) |
to test an approach to register more black voters and empower young people from predominantly marginalised and lower socioeconomic communities to lead the conversations |
| 06/10/2023 |
£28,090 |
CARIB EATS |
to provide a culturally competent democratic service that builds trust, a sense of belonging and voice to those aged over 55 and from predominantly Caribbean backgrounds in the community via the establishment of a democracy cafe for the elders, leading to voter registrations |
| 06/10/2023 |
£19,610 |
SKATE CABAL |
building on the historic alignment between roller-skating and the black community, to educate and engage the black community through shared interests, boosting voter registration |
| 06/10/2023 |
£56,000 |
COMMON KNOWLEDGE COOPERATIVE |
to provide campaign data support to five civil society organisations in their work towards a likely 2024 UK general election and to facilitate more effective organisation and mobilisation towards their campaign goals |
| 06/10/2023 |
£35,000 |
UK GOVERNANCE PROJECT |
to conclude a project to bring about a material improvement in the quality of the ‘governance’ of the UK – ie the quality and integrity of our central government activities |
| 06/10/2023 |
£34,000 |
SEEDS FOR CHANGE |
to strengthen the growing grassroots movement against authoritarianism and extreme inequality in Britain, by providing training and organisational support to networks that are countering racialised over-policing and the hostile environment, and developing the democratic power of communities marginalised by those forces |
| 06/10/2023 |
£45,368 |
ACT NOW |
to grow their people-powered campaigning community, deliver effective and engaging campaigns, encourage progressive communities to vote in the upcoming General Election, and ultimately, strengthen democratic practice in Northern Ireland |
| 06/10/2023 |
£44,910 |
ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE |
to continue their campaign for abortion rights for all in Northern Ireland. |
| 06/10/2023 |
£68,000 |
NEWSPEAK HOUSE / ORIGINAL CONTENT LONDON |
for a programme of convening and supporting the election tech community over a period of six months up to the next general election |
| 06/10/2023 |
£71,500 |
MUSLIM COUNCIL OF BRITAIN |
to increase consciousness and understanding of the UK’s political system and democratic process within British Muslim communities, and in turn, increase voter registration and turn out at the general election |
| 06/10/2023 |
£149,610£215,802 |
MY LIFE MY SAY |
to launch a national campaign, "My Future, My Vote," ["Give an X"] to register and mobilise young voters for the upcoming election |
| 06/10/2023 |
£163,100 |
SHOUT OUT UK |
for a large-scale Voter ID awareness and Voter Registration campaign with a primary target of registering young people aged 18-25 |
| 06/10/2023 |
£142,045 |
GENERATION RENT |
to run local and national campaigns to drive up voter registration ahead of the next General Election among private renters, particularly groups that they have identified as being less likely to be registered, such as those living in shared houses and flats |
| 18/07/2023 |
£10,000 |
NOT1MORE |
to lobby for a Parliamentary Inquiry, and communicate to key policymakers the unjust use of civil injunctions to criminalise protesters |
| 10/07/2023 |
£8,500 |
PATIENT EXPERIENCE LIBRARY (GLENSTALL IT) |
to build a fully independent and open access online “pharma funding tracker”, showing how money is moving between drug companies and APPGs |
| 23/06/2023 |
£39,356 |
AFTER EXPLOITATION |
to speak truth to power through two streams of work: the Exploitation Evidence Hub and the Exploitation Evidence Taskforce. The work will create a channel through which survivors of exploitation, NGOs, the press and Parliamentarians can request and challenge Government data on modern slavery, whilst supporting these stakeholders with practical resources and an evidence base founded on successful and pending FOI data on the lived experiences of victims |
| 23/06/2023 |
£50,000 |
CAN'T BUY MY SILENCE |
to employ administrative, strategic and fundraising support to scale up their campaign to stop those in power misusing non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in cases of sexual misconduct, bullying, discrimination, and all other human rights violations |
| 23/06/2023 |
£48,364 |
CENTENARY ACTION GROUP |
to fund their Women Count campaign, which seeks to increase the number of women candidates standing in the election, hold the parties to account on issues of representation and engage the female electorate |
| 23/06/2023 |
£72,048 |
FOXGLOVE |
to deliver a campaign demanding scrutiny of the government’s plans to create a Federated Data Platform (FDP) |
| 23/06/2023 |
£50,380 |
MIGRANT DEMOCRACY PROJECT |
to run their campaign advocating for the expansion of the franchise to all migrant residents in at least local elections |
| 23/06/2023 |
£238,006£9,674,001 |
CITIZENS UK |
to deliver a sign-up campaign encouraging civil society and corporate partners to take action to support voter registration, obtaining Voter ID and turnout |
| 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 |
| 20/02/2023 |
£5,000 |
PAUL TYLER & NICK HARVERY |
to produce and disseminate a study of Britain’s parliamentary and democratic challenges and a mini manifesto to remedy them |
| 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 |
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