Recent grants awarded

SOCIAL

Flourish NI
To support women in Northern Ireland who have experienced sexual exploitation to share their stories safely and in an empowering way. Learning will be shared to improve understanding, policy and practice to achieve better outcomes for women in similar circumstances.
£24,225

One-to-One Enfield
A one-year project to conduct the first study on Menopause, Autism & Learning disabilities in Enfield and use the findings to influence local policy & practice to ensure health & social care providers effectively support learning disabled &/or autistic women experiencing menopause.
£38,568

MEDICAL

Transplant Links
A two-year project which seeks to establish the first paediatric kidney transplant service in Nepal.
£56,000

Durham University
Promoting diagnostic development and drug delivery in the fight against neglected leishmaniasis in Pakistan.
£59,500

University of Nottingham
A research project to understand what happens after people diagnosed with COPD are discharged from a clinical unit.
£31,612

RELIGIOUS

Thrive Ireland
A project to expand the reach and impact of the Church and Community Transformation process across Northern Ireland
£59,336

Encounter Arena
A project designed to help young people aged 5–12 understand and experience the Christian faith in ways that are engaging, accessible, and meaningful to their everyday lives.
£25,000

SOCIAL

Be Free Campaign
Exploring Gaps in Mental Health Support for Racialised & Marginalised Young People: A one-year project to create a Young People’s Equity & Inclusion Lead that will identify and remove cultural barriers to early mental health access for racially minoritised young people in Liverpool.
£30,000

Prisoners Abroad
Mental Health Support After Imprisonment Overseas: Trauma-informed one to one and group counselling with referral to specialist services for people returning to the UK after imprisonment overseas.
£59,991

MEDICAL

Cairdeas International Palliative Care Trust
Implementation of an innovative and pioneering first Specialist Palliative Care Fellowship programme for Sub-Saharan Africa: To increase access to sustainable quality palliative care services for patients and families through training doctors, who have already acquired graduate competencies in internal medicine, family medicine, paediatrics or surgery, in the sub-speciality of palliative care as the first centre in Sub-Saharan Africa.
£54,319.50

Queen’s University Belfast
Distinguishing true urinary tract infections from contamination in young children: A 12-month study of RNA sequencing to distinguish true urinary tract infections from contamination in young children.
£30,000

Manchester Metropolitan University
Characterising Musculoskeletal Health in Older Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adults Undergoing Gender-Affirming Hormone Treatment: A project to investigate the impact of gender-affirming hormone treatment on the muscle and bone health of older transgender and gender-diverse adults.
£59,997

RELIGIOUS

Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University
New Christian Masculinities: searching for meaning and security in a polarised world: to understand the rise in young men’s Christian engagement in the context of global insecurity, changing gender attitudes and the fragmentation of identity in a divided society.
£50,982

Youthscape
Alt-Jesus: Tracking and Responding to Extreme Influences on Young People’s Christian Faith Journeys in the UK: Research to explore the degree to which extremists are co-opting Christianity in the UK, young people’s exposure to these narratives and reactions to them.
£50,318

University of the Highlands and Islands
Bridging the Gap: Development of Spiritual and Psychological Resources for People Bereaved by Suicide: Co-create resources for professionals to use when supporting the psychospiritual needs of suicide survivors.
£38,038

SOCIAL

Action on Postpartum Psychosis
Specialist legal and rights-based information for women recovering from postpartum psychosis. A project to develop online legal information resources; address rights-based issues through awareness campaigns and professional training; and train peer supporters to provide informed guidance and signposting.
£15,517

Advantage Africa
From Invisible to Empowered – Pioneering Dyslexia Education and Awareness Across Kenya. The project aims to develop a sustainable model for training primary school teachers to identify and support dyslexic learners, thereby enhancing educational outcomes for children. It will also significantly enhance public awareness and provide reliable information and advice nationally
£50,000

NEPACS
Parental Rights in Prison: Developing Trauma-Informed Training for Operational Staff Supporting Parents in Custody. The project will develop the UK’s first training programme for prison staff focused on parental rights, trauma-informed practice, and relational care — co-produced with officers, creatives, academics, and drawing on insights from people with lived experience.
£35,888

MEDICAL

Commonwealth Pharmacists Association
Empowering Pharmacists Through Mentorship to Enhance Patient Care Across the Commonwealth. A two-year mentoring programme offering digital and virtual mentoring as a valuable, low-cost way to support pharmacists and raise standards across the profession, positively impacting patient care.
£30,000

Newcastle University
Understanding how to prevent burnout in primary care – the relevance of spiritual health: a one-year research project to look at burnout and spiritual health in primary care team professionals.
£30,000

University of East London
Neurodiversity in Addiction Services: assessing the prevalence and impact on the recovery journey in an adult population who are in treatment under the Cranston drug and alcohol services. Renewal grant.
£29,959

RELIGIOUS

A Rocha
Accelerating UK churches’ action on climate change and biodiversity loss by strengthening local Christian environmental leadership to influence in the church, workplace and community.
£50,000

Birmingham Christian College
Widening African Pentecostal Women’s Access to Theological Higher Education in the UK. Support for African (and African Heritage) Pentecostal women to study theology at BA level at Birmingham Christian College.
£60,000

Hospice UK
Living with uncertainty: Supporting hospice staff to address the impact of the Assisted Dying Bills and create safe spaces and a framework for conversations which address the practical considerations, including spiritual and ethical complexities raised.
£34,000

SOCIAL

Vineyard Compassion.
A project to pilot the delivery of local immigration advice and support in rural areas on the North Coast of Northern Ireland. Project data will demonstrate the need for government-funded local immigration services.
£60,000

The Transforming Autism Project
An online programme to provide therapeutic early interventions for autistic children and their families to foster improved communication, social engagement, and overall well-being. The project will improve young autistic children’s levels of communication, engagement in play and interaction whilst also help parents create an environment for their child which reduces the child’s levels of anxiety and frustration.
£45,000

MEDICAL

Department for Women’s & Children’s Health, with the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme.
Saving Mothers Dying from Infection After Birth in Malawi. A study aimed at identifying resistant organisms in maternal abdominal infections and Sepsis resulting from Peritonitis, with the goal of informing evidence-based antibiotic recommendations to enhance survival rates.
£64,364

University of Cambridge
Detecting acute deterioration in hospitalised children with AI-assisted change-point models. A project to develop an improved system to detect deteriorating health in hospitalised children and prevent their death or long-term disability.
£57,494

RELIGIOUS

University of West London
A research project which aims to support the development of a more equitable and inclusive prison environment for Jewish prisoners, enhancing their safety, well-being, and prospects for rehabilitation.
£59,150

Lifeline Community Projects
A project to accelerate and strengthen multifaith, cross-sector, religious/secular collaboration nationwide by evaluating the Faith Covenant, supporting existing Covenant networks to implement emerging recommendations/best practice, and promoting these findings more broadly.
£57,890

 

SOCIAL

Partners of Prisoners.
A project to deliver a Family Support Service in HMP Preston, offering family days and case work for prisoners on remand and their families.
£43,006

The Big House.
Come Change My Mind is a ground-breaking podcast series that will give care leavers the autonomy to discuss what affects them, with a hard-hitting narrative, bringing shared experiences to life.
£53,191

Hope at Home.
To support the piloting of a financially sustainable and scalable supported housing programme for survivors of modern slavery.
£60,000

Clowns Without Borders
To support a series of expressive arts sessions in a refugee reception centre in London to give young people without agency and power the support and platform to tell their stories through art.
£58,540

MEDICAL

The Well Centre Charity.
To evaluate the Well Centre primary care model — which provides a bridge between primary care, local voluntary organisations, and other statutory organisations — and to investigate the possibilities for spreading and scaling the model more widely into other services.
£20,500

Northumbria University
Transforming breastfeeding education and practice. A pilot and evaluation of an accessible brief training package focused on positioning and attachment for effective breastfeeding.
£26,125

RELIGIOUS

Awareness Foundation
The Pioneers Programme aims to support teenagers in strife-torn Syria at a critical point in their lives and help them to make a positive change to themselves and to their society.
£25,811

Faith in Later Life
The support the Church Champions Project to launch regional training hubs, and new digital learning resources.
£60.000

Scripture Union
Equipping for Hybrid Mission. A project to lead a cultural shift in churches towards innovative and relevant missional approaches for children and young people.
£55,000

Better Communities Bradford
Project FAITH aims to address systemic Islamophobia in Yorkshire by promoting interfaith understanding, dialogue, and social cohesion.
£44,500

 

SOCIAL

Open Clasp Theatre Company
To support ‘Rupture’, a play co-created by mothers in prison and the staff members who work with them, exploring the lived experience of mothers in prison. To tour the play and create a film and training resources to make people aware of their perspective.
£ 14,000

The Bytes Project
A research project looking into the effectiveness of community ownership of youth programmes compared to statutory programmes in Protestant areas in Northern Ireland to influence government policy in this area.
£ 15,000

Able Child Africa
To recruit twelve young people with disabilities to become mental health champions and mentors, engaging with the government to make change happen. Young people will also provide peer-to-peer mentoring for children with disabilities.
£ 59,989

MEDICAL

Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health (RCPCH) 
Supporting the new Paediatric Association of Sierra Leone to build the infrastructure of child health skills and practice on which improvement in child survival across the country can be sustained. To design and develop clear educational and in-service professional development processes enabling doctors and nurses to specialise in neonatal and paediatric care for the first time in Sierra Leone.
£59,600

RELIGIOUS

Muslim Women’s Council 
To bring together women of different faiths, primarily Christian and Muslim, so they can connect and get to know one another at a deeper level. The project takes a proactive approach to resolving community tensions, focusing on giving marginalised women a voice.
£ 35,000

RAFFA International Development Agency
To support a National Digital Evangelism Initiative, a transformative project aimed at enhancing the digital presence and outreach of churches across the UK. To significantly improve these churches’ digital output, foster a more inclusive and engaging online environment that bridges the generational divide within our congregations.
£40,000

Nazarene Theological College
Bursary support for students who do not qualify for student finance to access a new BA in Theology and Counselling programme. The aim is to develop professional counsellors who are employable in the counselling, medical, and charity sectors, and who become community leaders through the integration of spirituality, religion, mental health, and community development.
£ 60,000.00

SOCIAL

Islington Mind
A renewal grant to sustain, expand and progress our unique and evidenced Freedom From Fear To Love project. The project helps LGBTQI+ asylum seekers and refugees to navigate the complex and challenging asylum process and develop community support networks and the confidence, resilience and understanding to become active, healthy and engaged UK citizens.
£60,000

Young Women’s Trust 
A peer research project into the nature and impact of job insecurity for young women leading to the development and practical solutions to drive systemic and social change.
£58,959

MEDICAL

The Virtual Doctors
To include the Arclight device, a medical diagnostic tool that combines a direct ophthalmoscope, anterior segment loupe and otoscope, in the telemedicine toolkit of the Virtual Doctors telemedicine system. Arclight training workshops will promote the use of this technology amongst all existing Virtual Doctors-supported sites to revolutionise the treatment of ear and eye conditions in Zambia.
£60,000

RELIGIOUS

Social Policy Research Unit, School for Business and Society, University of York
Increasing NHS and children’s hospice staff’s awareness of and comfortableness with identifying and responding to the spiritual needs and distress of children and young people with life-threatening/life-shortening conditions and their parents.
£53,535

National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)
A research project into the educational offerings of organisations working in schools to support the teaching of controversial religious issues, focussing on those that address differences between religions and between those with faith and those without. The project will identify and share examples of best practices and develop guidance, in the form of a teacher toolkit, on how to enhance the teaching of sensitive, faith-based issues.
£29,958

University of Sheffield
An interdisciplinary research project into the role of architecture in religion-related spaces in Yorkshire and Northern England in empowering communities and social-innovation.
£29,823

SOCIAL

CodeBrave Foundation
CodeBrave Teaching Fellowship: Tech Up-skilling Teachers in Lebanon.
£60,000

The Prison Phoenix Trust
Measuring effectiveness of online yoga and meditation on prisoners’ rehabilitation and wellbeing.
£60,000

MEDICAL

HealthBus Trust
HealthBus Trust Mixed Method Evaluation Research Project.
£60,000

Institute of Child Health, University College London
Clinical Consequences of Mixed Infection in Tuberculosis.
£44,560

University of West London
Neurodiversity in Addiction Services: assessing the prevalence and impact on the recovery journey in an adult population who are in treatment under the Cranston drug and alcohol services.
£29,986

RELIGIOUS

OneBodyOneFaith
Faith Sector Inclusive and Reflective Leadership Development Programme.
£50,000

National Institute for Christian Education Research, Canterbury Christ Church University
Consolation and Hope in a time of crisis (extension): school students’ reflections of transition and induction experiences through the pandemic.
£24,952.30

SOCIAL

Spark Inside
The Resolve Project: an innovative, ground-breaking project to bring prison staff and prisoners together to prevent/resolve in-prison conflict, transform prison culture and boost rehabilitation, helping people to genuinely ‘move beyond disadvantage’.
£60,000

Migrants Organise Ltd
Working with an NHS Trust and a Mental Health Trust to identify specific cases and help individuals through the Migrants Mental Capacity Advocacy (MMCA) Project.
£30,000

The WONDER Foundation
Maximising the potential of youth work: Investing in young people, Empowering parents, Inspiring youth workers.
£55,550.

MEDICAL

The University of Edinburgh
DigniSpace: For Now and Beyond. Providing digital tools for healthcare professionals working with adults with sensory impairments.
£20,247.10

University of Aberdeen
The INFORM Study. Identifying older peoples’ Needs to empower discussions with healthcare Professionals about their use of Anticholinergic Medicines:
£66,233.20

RELIGIOUS

The Cambridge Friendship Trust (operating as Lyn’s House Cambridge)
Growing in Friendship: researching and increasing the impact of communities of friendship among people of differing intellectual abilities for mutual learning and faith development.
£60,000

The Souster Youth Trust
Development of practice-based discipleship resources. To pilot a new suite of resources for Christian youth leaders.
£57,868

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