Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation is pleased to announce the Migration Fund.
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation envision a world in which everyone is free to move, and no one is forced to move.
For them, this means a world where:
- respect, care and interdependence underpin the relationships with one another
- differences of opinion and perspectives provide opportunity for reflection and growth, and
- shared learning allows them to both shape the future actions and to stop them from deepening and consolidating harm.
The funding is the contribution to help bring about this future. They believe this is only possible through collective and collaborative effort between individuals, organisations, movements, funders and beyond.
This shared vision of the future, priorities and commitments were all shaped by input from people who work towards migrant justice every day, and those with direct experience of the UK’s previous and current immigration systems.
As harmful narratives, laws and policies in the UK and internationally expand, punish migrant communities, and incite fear and division, they will continue to invest in a range of strategies to:
- prevent a roll-back of rights and implement stronger protections and entitlements for those who move in the ‘here and now’
- build knowledge, solidarity, and power in the communities, and
- support those who are imagining, rehearsing, and practising the future they want to see for them all.
Who they want to support?
- The fund focuses both on how organisations work, and what they seek to achieve.
- They are interested in funding organisations whose principles and practice align with the vision of the future.
How you work?
- This means they want to support organisations who are working towards:
- embedding anti-racist practice across their organisation and work.
- adopting an organisational culture that centres care and wellbeing.
- shifting power to migrants and diaspora communities so their interests, perspectives and contributions are centred across the organisation’s work.
- building solidarity and collaboration across communities, while working towards transformational change that benefits them all.
- unlearning and challenging the harm, inequity, and oppression within their organisational structures and work.
- learning, reflecting and being responsive to change.
What you work on?
- They want to support work that helps:
- build a society based on respect, care, and interdependence by dismantling the hostile environment and other harmful laws, policies and practices that negatively affect migrants and diaspora communities.
- contextualise and tackle root causes of injustice migrants face, building on lessons from the past to dismantle wider systems of oppression and connect with other social justice issues.
- build collective power within migrant communities through an intersectional lens so they can shape decisions that affect them and create momentum for transformational and positive change.
- foster solidarity between communities, leading to greater understanding and helping to overcome division.
- strengthen infrastructure for the migrant justice and related fields, including through supporting greater connection, learning and exchange.
- explore alternative futures built on self-determination, justice, acknowledgment and repair for the harms of the past, and where all of them are free to choose where they live.
Examples of work they are interested in include:
- Collaborations, alliances, and coalitions
- Campaigning and mobilisation
- Community and worker organising
- Intersectional non-party political education
- Migrant and diaspora leadership development
- Working towards changing law, policy and practice on issues affecting migrant and diaspora communities
What they fund?
- Amount: up to £60,000 per year (3 to 4 years); up to £50,000 per year (5 years)
- Duration: 3-5 years
- The Migration Fund is open to applications from not-for-profit organisations of any size working anywhere in the UK. Newly established and unincorporated groups are also welcome to apply if they fit the criteria.
- They will consider:
- core funding for salaries, organisational costs, etc.
- funding dedicated to a specific programme.
- funding for partnerships.
- They will prioritise applications from organisations:
- led by migrants and diaspora communities.
- that work with historically underfunded groups and regions.
- with annual turnover under £500,000.
- that have less access to funding from other sources.
- They are committed to addressing historical under-resourcing of smaller community organisations led by and for migrants and diaspora communities. For organisations with an annual turnover of up to £120,000, they are open to considering grants that cover up to 50% of their annual income.
What they do not fund?
- In addition to PHF’s general exclusions they cannot accept applications for:
- service delivery, such as advice, information sessions, direct support, unless this work directly informs the organisation’s strategy towards change.
- activities that focus solely on bringing communities together without a direct link to the organisation’s strategy towards change.
- academic research, including partnerships between migrant groups and academia.
- research that does not demonstrate a direct link between findings and taking action towards change.
- work that focuses on supporting people to enter the labour market, such as writing CVs, preparing cover letters, supporting job interviews, etc.
- English language classes.
- They recognise that these activities are important but considering the limited funds the above are not currently a priority.
For more information, visit Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
