SHARED GROUND FUND: The Shared Ground Fund supports organisations to influence migration system reform, improve access to support services, strengthen civic participation and inform public understanding of migration and integration narratives.
Grants from £30,000 – £400,000 for work lasting up to 4 years
Rolling application cycle – no deadlines
Influencing migration system reform: helping to build a policy and legal framework based on the principles of fairness, accessibility, due process, efficiency and respect for human rights.
Improving access to support services, to ensure systemic exclusion which forces individuals into poverty is addressed and the needs of people who migrate are met, so that they have the longer-term support they need to settle, integrate and thrive in the UK.
Strengthening civic participation so that people who have migrated to the UK have a stronger voice and are represented and meaningfully involved in the structures and services that affect their lives.
Informing public understanding and countering the polarisation of migration and integration narratives.
We are clear that inequality in the immigration system plays out in ways that connect and intersect across race, gender, class, disability and other characteristics. We want to support work that addresses racism and structural inequalities that result in different groups being adversely affected in the UK migration system. We will only fund work that directly influences or contributes towards wider systemic change and that addresses root causes alongside consequences.
We also have a particular interest in the lives of young people who lack permanent status in the UK, including those who are ‘undocumented’ and maintain an area of focus on these young people within the Shared Ground Fund, working in partnership with Unbound Philanthropy. We encourage you to set up an optional enquiry call with us to discuss your ideas before you submit applications related to this focus area.
For further information on our overall approach in this area, and our current priority areas we suggest you read our Shared Ground Theory of Change.