UK Grants
Awarded in 2025
In 2025 we awarded 42 grants for work in the UK to support Asylum Seekers & Refugees (30) and those in the Criminal Justice system (12).
In this recent round, 38% of applications to the UK programmes were successful. Our aim is to increase the success rate as far as possible by providing clear guidance and criteria so that both you and we are less likely to waste time. If we can improve our processes or information to you in any way please do let us know!
UK Grants Awarded in November 2025
UK Region | Organisation | Grant Awarded |
NW | AAWAZ | £8,000 over two years (£4,000 each year) as a contribution to dedicated support hours for refugee and asylum-seeking women and core costs. The organisation is advised to update its Equalities Policy to incorporate service provision. |
GL | Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust | £7,000 over two years (£3,400; £3,600) towards the costs of supporting asylum seekers and refugees in their use of the Reserve. |
NW | Compass Counselling Services | £14,000 over two years (£7,000 per year) towards the costs of counselling for refugees and asylum seekers in the Merseyside area. Release of the grant is subject to receipt of a satisfactory dissolution clause for the organisation. |
NE | Darlington Assistance for Refugees | £13,000 over two years (£6,500 pa) as an unrestricted grant. |
SW | Dovetail Orchestra | £12,000 over two years (£6,000 pa) as an unrestricted grant. |
SW | Folio Theatre | £5,686 over one year for work to support women refugee and asylum seekers in Swindon. |
Y&TH | Hope ESOL | £10,000 over two years (£5,000 per year) towards the costs of providing ESOL and Digital Skills classes to asylum seekers and refugees. |
Y&TH | Leeds Destitute Asylum-Seekers Support | £10,800 over two years (£5,400 per year) as an unrestricted grant. |
S | LGBT Unity Glasgow | £10,000 over 2 years (£5,000 per year) as unrestricted funding. |
EM | Local Welcome CIO | £14,000 over two years (£7,000 per year) to support the integration of refugees and asylum seekers in three new areas, Manchester, Hull and Plymouth through participation in community leadership, cooking and shared meals with local host communities. |
S | Maslow’s Community | £13,964 over two years (£6,982 per year) for the costs of peer-led workshops and individual support for asylum seekers and refugees. |
GL | New Art Studio | £14,000 over two years (£7,000 per year) unrestricted funding to support a therapeutic art service for refugees and asylum seekers who have experienced trauma and associated mental health conditions. |
EoE | Norwich International Youth Project | £14,000 over two years (£7,000 per year) unrestricted funding to welcome young unaccompanied refugees and asylum seekers and help resettlement through a range of activities, classes and sports. |
SE | Open Door (Oxford) | £12,000 over two years (£6,000 per year) towards operational costs, including the production of independently examined accounts. |
S | Outdoors for You | £11,877 over two years (Yr1 – £5,730; Yr2 – £6,147) for the costs of providing regular volleyball sessions for asylum seekers and refugees. |
SE | Reading Community Learning Centre | £10,000 over two years (£5,000 per year) towards the salary and running costs for English reading and writing classes for refugee and asylum seeking women in Reading. |
GL | Refugee Employment Network | £14,000 over two years (£7,000 per year) as unrestricted funding to help refugees with a right to work across the UK into employment. |
NE | Refugee Futures | £5,000 for one year as an unrestricted grant |
S | Scottish Ethnic Minority Deaf Charity | £10,000 over two years (£5,000 per year) towards support for asylum seekers and refugees who are Deaf. |
EM | Sharewear Clothing Scheme | £7,600 over two years (£3,800 per year) towards the costs of a part-time post to support work with asylum seekers and refugees. |
Y&TH | St Monica’s Housing Limited | £14,000 over two years (£7,000 per year) as an unrestricted grant. |
GL | Student Action for Refugees (STAR) | £14,000 over two years (£7,000 per year) as an unrestricted grant. |
EoE | The Courtney Foundation | £14,000 over two years (£7,000 per year) for work supporting asylum seekers and refugees. |
Y&TH | The Cricket Asylum Foundation | £14,000 over two years (£7,000 per year) to support young asylum seekers and refugees. |
GL | Thread Ahead | £10,000 over two years (£5,000 per year) as an unrestricted grant. |
NW | Toxteth Women’s Centre | £14,000 over two years (£7,000 each year) for core costs including salaries, room hire and food supplies for refugees and asylum seekers learning English in Liverpool. |
NW | Trinity Safe Space Charity | £14,000 over two years (£7,000 per year) as an unrestricted grant. |
GL | Waltham Forest Migrant Action | £10,000 over two years (£5,000 per year) unrestricted funding to support refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. |
SE | West Berkshire Action for Refugees | £6,000 for one year as an unrestricted grant. |
WM | Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary | £9,700 over two years (Yr1 £4,700; Yr2 £5,000) as an unrestricted grant. |
Region | Organisation | Grant Awarded |
GL | East London Metropolitan Opera | £13,095 over two years (YR1 £6,435; YR2 £6,660) towards freelance music tutors to run workshops and broader musical activities for men in Pentonville Prison. |
GL | Feltham Community Chaplaincy | £14,000 over 2 years (£7,000 each year) unrestricted funding to support the resettlement of young men from prison back into the community. |
SW | Gifted Women | £10,000 over two years (£5,000 per year) towards salaries, venue hire, equipment and management charges for running the employment programme for women with experience of multiple disadvantage and the criminal justice system. |
Y&TH | Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief | £9,000 over two years (£4,500 per year) restricted to work on resettling people leaving prison, and with a maximum of £1,500 pa for related management and running costs. |
S | Miscarriages of Justice Organisation | £10,000 over two years (£5,000 each year) towards recreational and activity costs and resilience building courses after release from prison for people MOJO believe are innocent of the offences for which they were convicted, and for their families, especially for women. |
GL | People Arise Now | £14,000 over two years (£7,000 pa) as unrestricted funding. |
SE | Philosophy in Prison | £14,000 over two years (£7,000 pa) as an unrestricted grant. |
NW | Sing Inside | £10,000 over two years (£5,000 pa) for work with HMP Styal. |
WM | Stepway CIO | £7,000 over two years (£3,500 per year) towards the costs of supporting veterans in the criminal justice system and their families. |
Y&TH | SWAP (Safe Welcome After Prison) | £10,000 over 2 years (£5,000 per year ) unrestricted funding to support prison leavers at the early stage of release to settle into a therapeutic rehabilitation centre. |
GL | The Welcome Directory | £14,000 over two years (£7,000 per year) as unrestricted funding. |
S | Wise Women | £2,165 to produce pre-sentencing information leaflets for women. |