Paul Hamlyn Foundation: Migration Fund
Overview
Aim of the fund
They envision a world where:
- respect, care and interdependence underpin our relationships with one another;
- differences of opinion and perspectives provide opportunity for reflection and growth;
- shared learning allows us to both shape our future actions and to stop us from deepening and consolidating harm.
Their funding is their contribution to helping bring about this future. For this vision of the future, priorities and commitments are 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 our communities;
- support those who are imagining, rehearsing, and practising the future we want to see for us all.
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Funding Level & Notes
- Amount: up to £60,000 per year (3 to 4 years); up to £50,000 per year (5 years)
- Deadline: Rolling basis
- 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 their criteria.
They will consider:
- core funding for salaries, organisational costs, etc;
- funding dedicated to a specific programme; or
- 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; or
- 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.
Who they want to support
This 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 their 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 us 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 our 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 us are free to choose where we live.
Examples of work they are interested in include:
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They want to support organisations that build on their services to strengthen relationships with their communities and inform their strategies towards change. However, they will not fund service delivery that does not directly inform the organisation’s strategy towards change.