AB Refugee and Migrant Grant
People who move to the UK often have to navigate a complex and hostile legal and policy environment, facing numerous barriers which undermine their ability to live with dignity.
We support organisations working to achieve a just and supportive environment for people who migrate to the UK, are refugees or people seeking asylum. This includes work to deliver services, policy, advocacy and influencing, campaigning, narrative change, and community organising.
Online: AB Charitable Trust
Phone: 02072439486
Email: mail@abcharitabletrust.org.uk
Black Country Housing Group
Free training resource and offer walk through training for anyone who is supporting young people transitioning to independent living.
- Emotional wellbeing
- Financial advice
- Healthy Eating
- Moving in and on
Phone: 01215611969
Community Development Team
Connection into the community support for young people.
Phone: 01384816293
Homeless Prevention Team at Dudley Council
Support with what is expected and how to manage a tenancy. Initial checks and 6 weeks with housing office and personal advisor.
Monitoring ASB and how that affects neighbours.
Floating support worker allocated before 3 months pre 18 moving home– they can provide intensive work around managing tenancy.
Phone: 033005552345
Out of hours Emergency: 03005558283
Online: Dudley Council Homelessness
DWP/ Job Centre Plus
- Early entry system for claims to go live on 18th birthday.
- Financial support with training and employment
- Group sessions or 1/1 sessions ‘Foundations for life – Improving outcomes for care experience young people moving into independent living.
- Also train the trainer programme at foundation for life
- Visit work coach at Routes rather than JCP office.
- Funding for bespoke training for individual qualifications
Phone: 08001690310
Provision House
Support with budgeting, benefits and housing and can also provide advocacy on the young person’s behalf with telephone calls.
Email: admin@provisionhouse.co.uk
Phone: 01212853970
Top Church Training
Support young people in finding employment and work experienced in Brierley hill high street café.
Phone: 01384262114
Bus Passes
Offers free bus pass for west midlands travel to care leavers for timely limited periods, also offered to Job Seekers for 3 months and 3 months at discount. Speak to your PA (care experienced team) for more information.
Refugee Education UK
Education funding options for young refugees and asylum seekers.
Lots of funding bodies are found on this website for asylum seekers and refugees to get into education. We focus on opportunities that raise aspirations and add to the positive narrative about refugees’ contributions to society. This means we fund work that’s closely aligned with our criteria of doing things differently, enabling innovation and the potential for wider application.
We fund work that:
- Creates significant new opportunities relating to employability, entrepreneurial endeavours and personal development for refugees and asylum seekers
- Supports the specialised mental health needs of survivors of torture and young unaccompanied asylum seekers. This complements our work in relation to children and young people’s mental health
- Uses the arts and creativity to build community between migrants and the wider community
Online: https://www.reuk.org/funding
Apprenticeship Grant
For apprentices who start their apprenticeships up to and including 31 July 2023, the bursary is a single payment of £1,000. It can only be received once by an individual care leaver.
For apprentices starting their apprenticeship on or after 1 August 2023, the bursary will be £3,000. It is payable in instalments over the first year of the apprenticeship.
Eligible apprentices:
For an apprentice to be eligible for the care leavers’ bursary, they must:
- be aged under 25 at the time they start their apprenticeship
- not have received the care leavers’ bursary before
- be either an eligible child, a relevant child or a former relevant child
Capstone Care Leavers Trust
The Capstone Care Leavers Trust (CCLT) awards grants to people aged 17-25 years who have been in Local Authority Care in England or Wales and are in need.
To qualify, the care experienced young person must be between the ages 17-25 and have lived in care.
The CCLT also offers advice and guidance to young people to help reduce their experience of social exclusion and enhance their life chances.
Typically, the trust will consider awarding grants towards education/training, study materials, laptops and household essentials.
Online: https://www.capstonecareleaverstrust.org/applications/criteria/
Email: info@capstonetrust.org
Driving Lessons
For an application for driving lessons to be considered, you must:
- Hold a Valid Driving Theory Test certificate - which we will require a copy of, and state on the application
- Employed and provide your current employer contact details for a written reference, confirming you cannot progress your career with them without a license.
- Provide a paragraph to the trustees detailing steps in place of saved funds to purchase a car and cover costs of running a car. Especially Insurance!
Evidence financially be able to afford the cost of running a car soon, usually evident from the employer reference. The trustees will consider 1 block of 20 driving lessons paid direct to an independent driving instructor.
Any goods approved by the trustee board will be purchased by us within an allocated modest budget, we cannot increase the charity budget allocated.
Spark Foundation
The general policy of the Trustees is to make grants of amounts up to £700 which will either help to advance the education or vocational training or employability of children and young people under the age of 26, or provide those who are leaving care, or have recently left care, with basic items, facilities or equipment. The overall aim is to give this group the same chance as those who have not been in care.
Online: https://spark-foundation.org.uk/
The Rayne Foundation
The Rayne Foundation funds work that:
- Is based on different thinking and enables innovation
- Has potential for wider application beyond the funded proposal
- Is informed by direct delivery and has a clear, positive impact on people’s lives
- Can demonstrate match-funding contributions to the project
- Enables and encourages collaboration between sectors and silos
- Develops best practice and captures learnings to share with others
- Adds to sector expertise and leadership
Care leaver funding
What we fund:
We focus on projects that offer mental health and wellbeing support to children and young people and their families/carers in challenging circumstances and where there is a lack of help.
We fund work that:
- Supports early childhood (0-5 years including the perinatal period) with family/carer interventions that aim to reduce the impact of early childhood trauma.
- Supports children and young people who care experienced*, on the edge of care**, or leaving care, with interventions that prioritise improved mental health and well-being.
Applications for creative and artistic approaches to achieving progress in this priority area are also strongly encouraged.
**The Rayne Foundation takes an inclusive approach to this terminology and will be guided by applicants that support children and young people (and by extension their families) with interventions that aim to prevent them from entering care.
Funding criteria
The Rayne Foundation funds work that:
- Is based on different thinking and enables innovation
- Has potential for wider application beyond the funded proposal
- Is informed by direct delivery and has a clear, positive impact on people’s lives
- Can demonstrate match-funding contributions to the project
- Enables and encourages collaboration between sectors and silos
- Develops best practice and captures learnings to share with others
- Adds to sector expertise and leadership
Phone: 02074879656
Criminal Injuries Compensation Guide
What payments are available from the Scheme?
We can consider claims for the following:
- mental or physical injury following a crime of violence.
- sexual or physical abuse.
- loss of earnings - where you have no or limited capacity to work as the direct result of a criminal injury.
- special expenses payments - these cover certain costs you may have incurred as a direct result of an incident. You can only ask us to consider special expenses if your injuries mean you have been unable to work or have been incapacitated to a similar extent for more than 28 weeks.
- a fatality caused by a crime of violence including bereavement payments, payments for loss of parental services and financial dependency; and funeral payments.
Online: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/criminal-injuries-compensation-a-guide
Phone: 03002007887
The Triangle Trust
Our focus for 2025/26 is young women and girls who are already in contact with the criminal justice system or who are at high risk of being drawn into it.
- We run two grant rounds each year. This year our focus is on young women and girls who have been in the criminal justice system or who are at a high risk of entering it.
- The application process has two stages as this gives us the best chance of understanding your proposal and how it links to our aims and our overall Theory of Change.
- Following the submission of your initial online application, shortlisted applicants will be asked to host an assessment visit with our director.
- This is an opportunity for us to find out more about the work you do and the project you would like us to support.
Online: https://www.triangletrust.org.uk/
Phone: 07716378564