Deadline: 15-Sep-21
The Justice Together is pleased to launch the Local Influencing Grants to undertake local influencing work for local, regional or national change.
Justice Together will fund activities that seek to influence local authorities, metro mayors or regional bodies on issues of migration and funding, as well as activities that include local community organising and campaigning, e.g. work with the local authority to secure commitment to long-term funding of immigration advice; influencing a Mayor to embed immigration advice within strategies to reduce homelessness and poverty; building local solidarity and power of people with lived experience to feed into wider movements for national change.
Goals
Justice Together is interested in a wide range of approaches by different types of organisations towards achieving these change goals:
- A fair, timely and accessible immigration system.
- A more sustainably resourced immigration advice and legal system.
Funding Information
- Justice Together anticipates making grants in the range of £90,000 – £300,000 for individual applications and £90,000 – £400,000 for multiple organisation partnerships/collaborations, for an initial 3-year grant period.
Justice Together will Fund
- Increased influencing capacity including through staffing costs, consultancy, volunteer expenses and direct costs.
- Proposals from organisations led and/or informed by people with lived experience of the immigration system.
- Approaches that build solidarity, work together to understand systemic issues and come together to raise the voices of those with lived experience.
- Development and testing of new approaches to influencing with particular focus on community and movement lawyering models that build power and develop leadership of those with lived experience of the immigration system.
- Local co-ordination across different approaches to influence and/or with advice providers. They would like to support new structures as well as strengthening existing co-ordination.
- Where activities meet the Justice Together goals flexible core-type funding will be considered.
- They can only fund work that is charitable, but applicants do not need to be registered charities.
Eligibility Criteria
Justice Together welcomes applications from organisations based in the London, Yorkshire and Humber, the South East, North East and North West of England, and in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Justice Together is particularly welcome applications that demonstrate some of the following:
- Work that is led by and/or informed by people with lived experience of the immigration system, which is properly resourced, equitable and inclusive. They encourage funding applications from migrant-led organisations.
- Recruitment processes that encourage candidates with lived experience to apply to posts funded by the initiative.
- Anti-racism embedded in the organisation and the work. As anti-racism is very important to Justice Together, the Grants Committee will review organisations’ approach to anti-racism in terms of their external work and internal structures and processes.
- Partnership applications.
- Plans for sharing knowledge, learning and evidence to support and inform the wider immigration sector.
- Links between frontline advice and influencing work (locally or nationally).
- The skills and knowledge to undertake the proposed work including expertise by experience.
For more information, visit https://justice-together.org.uk/become-a-grant-partner/influencing-grants/local-influencing-grants/