Civil Society Roots

OAKonsult Disabilities Outreach Ltd

Grant amount: £4,988 Additional access grants: £1,000 Total: £5,988

OAKonsult works with parents and carers of children with special needs and disabilities in Bromley. The funding will go towards the development of Project Me, a holistic program including workshops, training, practical sessions, focus groups, and therapeutic content for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic parents and carers in Bromley.

London Gypsies and Travellers

Grant amount: £50,000 Total: £50,000

London Gypsies and Travellers is an organisation which challenges social exclusion and discrimination, working for change in partnership with Gypsies and Travellers. The funding will allow them to create a Bromley based network for Gypsy and Traveller residents supported by a community development worker and a community engagement worker through a range of activities.

Bromley Experts by Experience

Grant amount: £50,000 Additional access grants: £3,996 Total: £53,996

Bromley Experts by Experience is a user-led Charity for Deaf and Disabled People and Carers in Bromley. The funding will allow them to engage directly with key stakeholders, such as local Councillors and impairment-specific groups, to enable disabled-led action for change in Bromley and to bring together smaller, impairment-specific groups that operate in silos and struggle to get their voices heard.

Better Living Partners CIC

Grant amount: £5,000 Additional access grants: £1,000 Total: £6,000

Better Living Partners deliver programmes of support to those living with long term health conditions in Bromley. The funding will allow for evidence gathering including routine data from Public Health Bromley and dedicated time and support for research activity for up to 6 months.

Middle Eastern Women and Society Organisation

Grant amount: £4,680 Total: £4,680

Middle Eastern Women and Society works with women to protect them from violence both at home and in the wider community, help them rebuild their lives through tailored advice, guidance and support, and campaign for their equality and human rights to be respected. The grant would help them create links with local support services and organise discussions with service providers and LGBTQ+ women from Enfield.

Grassroots

Grant amount: £3,950 Total: £3,950

Grassroots (Hosted by Edmonton Methodist Church) is a network of 8 organisations that are committed to ending inequalities in food security in Enfield. The funding will allow them to develop their skills through professional Theory of Change training as well as enable members to attend through the provision of childcare support and travel expenses.

Enfield Racial Equality Council

Grant amount: £5,000 Additional access grants: £1,000 Total: £6,000

Enfield Racial Equality Council’s mission is to actively promote and seek to implement a racially just, fair and equitable society which will enhance the quality of life for all who live, work and learn in the London Borough of Enfield. The funding will allow them to reinstate their Strategic Race and Equalities Forum (SREF), which enables in-depth focus on equalities issues to be put forward for discussion and action.

Effective Transition CIC

Grant amount: £5,000 Additional access grants: £1,000 Total: £6,000

Effective Transition, Success Club and Independent Parent Hub (hosted by Edmonton Community Partnership) support young people by helping them to overcome both the internal and external barriers that can prevent them from fulfilling their potential. They do this through football and other sport activities, mentoring and other support services. The funding will go towards the creation of a focus group for a talk shop which will include strategic partners and a few individuals from the wider community to discuss their lived experiences and the needs in the wider community.

Enfield Women’s Centre

Grant amount: £4,225 Additional access grants: £600 Total: £4,825

Enfield Women’s Centre works with women in Enfield. The funding will allow them to research how a resourced network of mutual interest can strengthen the capacity of women’s groups in the borough and help carry their voices to the decision makers thus supporting disadvantaged women and girls.

Harrow Womens' Centre

Grant amount: £5,000 Total: £5,000

Harrow Women’s Centre works with and supports women in Harrow. The funding will go towards developing

networks of local organisations and building on the evidence from previous focus groups by running a new series of focus groups, aimed at identifying issues and solutions experienced by women in Harrow.

Every Person Is Capable

Grant amount: £3,435 Total: £3,435

EPIC (Every Person is Capable) is a social enterprise which aims to empower, enlighten and educate people to achieve their true potential through arts and culture by creating mindful spaces for self-expansion. The funding will allow them to develop their capacity through training as well as establish and develop partnerships with other mental health support organisations in Harrow.

Family Information Group

Grant amount: £17,740 Total: £17,740

The Family Information Group offer advice and information to parents as well as providing childcare for children with disabilities and children in need. The funding will go towards establishing a local network, bringing together parents and staff from key statutory services and other stakeholders.

You and Me Counselling

Grant amount: £49,870 Additional access grants: £1,500 Total: £51,370

You and Me Counselling are a charity that works with children, young people, adults and their families who are facing emotional

and psychological distress. They offer group and individual counselling both in school and private settings. The funding would support relationship and capacity building across their services.

Hillingdon Women's Centre

Grant amount: £5,000 Additional access grants: £200 Total: £5,200

Hillingdon Women’s Centre supports women in Hillingdon. The funding would allow staff to develop The Women’s Hub project, which aims to create a women-only safe space where women can network, share knowledge and promote sisterhood.

Fairer Housing (hosted by Advice 4 Renters)

Grant amount: £5,000 Additional access grants: £1,000 Total: £6,000

Fairer Housing (FH) wants to bring together individuals living in unsatisfactory housing and grassroots community groups in Hounslow to raise awareness of the elements that underpin the housing crisis and work in partnership to address these. The grant would be used to raise collective voice and advocacy.

Protégé DNA Ltd

Grant amount: £49,500 Total: £49,500

Protégé supports disadvantaged young people who are struggling with school, with life and with learning, they take referrals from their local authority and local schools to work with and nurture the potential of local young people in Hounslow. Funding would support with training and capacity building of services.

Speak Out in Hounslow

Grant amount: £5,000 Additional access grants: £1,000 Total: £6,000

Speak Out in Hounslow works with people with learning disabilities & autism in the London Borough of Hounslow. The funding aims would be to consult with their members and their parents /carers in order to establish what areas of advocacy are a priority for them, so that the knowledge required to ensure positive outcomes is developed.

Deaf Roots

Grant amount: £5,000 Additional access grants: £1,000 Total: £6,000

Deaf Roots works to address Deaf and Hard-Of-Hearing people’s long-term needs through access to work and other support services. The funding will go towards adapting an existing model used well by communities elsewhere and testing the model with the d/Deaf community in and around Newham.

Money A+E UK CIC

Grant amount: £49,999 Total: £49,999

Money A&E work with community groups in Newham, their mission is to empower individuals by providing accessible, independent, and effective money advice and education. Funding would be used to improve collaboration and increase organisational capacity. Newham £49,999  

Calm Minds-UK

Grant amount: £3,072 Total: £3,072

Calm Minds provide support, advocacy and training programmes for migrants and refugees living in the UK. This grant would work towards building and improving volunteer recruitment and capacity.

NUTU Academy CIC

Grant amount: £5,000 Additional access grants: £750 Total: £5,750

NUTU Academy CIC is a social enterprise working with communities and institutions, particularly BAME ones. Through research, they deliver activities to address issues of empowerment, poverty, skills acquisition, training and social inclusion. Development funding will enable a professional researcher and community specialists to engage formally with ex/offenders aged 16-25, parents/guardians, stakeholders and community groups to explore systemic issues, structural inequalities in the criminal justice sector, how they impact families and individuals and how they may be addressed.

Act Up! Newham CIC

Grant amount: £5,000 Additional access grants: £630 Total: £5,630

Act Up! Newham is a disabled-led organisation seeking to challenge structural inequalities. The funding will help pilot a collaborative partnership between Act Up! Newham and Boom-Wow Theatre to test and develop an inclusive methodology to provide administrative support to companies led by people with learning disabilities and/or neuro-diversities.

Women's Health and Family Services

Grant amount: £50,000 Total: £50,000

Women’s Health & Family Services works for equal access to healthcare for disadvantaged women and their families, through awareness-raising, advocacy and the provision of relevant health services, they challenge discrimination and campaign for people’s rights and choices to improve the health and wellbeing of women. Their flagship programme is “Maternity Mates” which supports pregnant women. The funding would support relationship building through extended partnerships.

Adanna Women’s Support Group

Grant amount: £4,620 Total: £4,620

Adanna Women’s Support Group supports and empowers women and girls from BAME communities who have experienced domestic abuse. The funding will go towards training staff to become DV advocates and offer culturally sensitive advice and support, as well as conducting focus groups with women and other key stakeholders in the community.

Empowering Deaf Society

Grant amount: £49,874 Additional access grants: £4,000 Total: £53,874

Empowering Deaf Society provides services that are designed to meet the needs of the deaf community that reside in London. The funding will allow them to address capacity issues due to communication difficulties. It will fund British Sign Language training for staff in key stakeholder organisations as well as volunteers and also develop Deaf empowerment networks in the borough.

People Arise Now

Grant amount: £5,000 Additional access grants: £1,000 Total: £6,000

People Arise Now provides support for struggling families, and those who have been, or are at risk of being, impacted by crime. The funding will allow them to replicate an existing successful network in Sutton, bringing together residents and statutory services.

Sutton Women's Centre

Grant amount: £48,840 Total: £48,840

An organisation in Sutton supporting victims of domestic abuse, their mission: To provide a safe, women only space where women can access specialist support, advice, information and education to help them achieve their potential; develop their skills; and live their lives free from domestic abuse. The funding would allow them to recruit and train volunteers as well as create a network of residents to have a good understanding of domestic violence issues.

A Place At My Table

Grant amount: £47,847 Additional access grants: £3,250 Total: £51,097

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Sound Minds

Grant amount: £5,000 Additional access grants: £1,000 Total: £6,000

Sound Minds is a mental health charity transforming lives through music, film and art. This grant would go towards building on an existing close community of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic service users and linking them with mental health networks (including statutory services) in the borough.

Roots to Change CIC

Grant amount: £5,000 Total: £5,000

Roots to Change is a new Wandsworth-based community interest company which aims to look at the root causes of violence against women and girls in Wandsworth. The funding will help develop a comprehensive analysis of some of the root and underlying causes and drivers of violence, exploitation and abuse directed at women and girls in the borough.

Neko Trust

Grant amount: £5,000 Additional access grants: £1,000 Total: £6,000

Neko aims to address the widespread gender, diversity and class imbalances in the creative industries, supporting people to progress no matter who they are or where they come from. The funding will help them build partnerships that develop their understanding of key challenges, focusing on Wandsworth community organisations and agencies who support women with lived experience of the criminal justice system, survivors of domestic abuse, caregivers, women with mental ill health and refugees.