Who we support

Funder – Autumn 2025

Bridging Barriers exists to tackle inequality in career access for young people from underrepresented backgrounds.

Our mission is to equip ambitious 16–25-year-olds from ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds with the confidence, networks, and career skills they need to succeed. We believe talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not — and we are committed to changing that.

We do this through structured mentoring programmes, career development workshops, and a growing digital platform called Career Compass. Our flagship initiative, Turning Point, pairs young people with professionals from their chosen industries for 1:1 mentoring over six months. We also run employer insight days, CV and interview masterclasses, and provide ongoing alumni support for long-term impact.

Funder – Autumn 2025

Children With Voices supports children under 18, parents, neurodivergent individuals, and people from global majority/ethnic minority backgrounds across all ethnic groups, addressing critical issues around physical and mental health and wellbeing, and poverty alleviation.

Funder – Spring 2025

BARCO is a Community Interest Company dedicated to enhancing the lives and experiences of Black individuals living, working, studying, and visiting Brighton and Hove. The organisation provides a dedicated platform for Black people to be better connected and heard, while also celebrating Black culture with the wider community through events, discussions, and initiatives that foster inclusivity and pride. BARCO serves individuals of Black African, Black Caribbean, and Black mixed-race heritage, creating a welcoming space for cultural celebration and empowerment.

Funder – Spring 2025

Inside Out Well-being is a not-for-profit social enterprise dedicated to transforming mental health support through culturally-informed, trauma-sensitive services tailored to the unique needs of underrepresented communities in the UK. Our mission is to break down barriers in mental health care, ensuring that everyone, especially within Black and ethnic minority communities, has access to the support they need to thrive. We recognise that mental well-being is deeply influenced by culture and identity, and we believe these factors must be integrated into every aspect of care.

Funder – Autumn 2024

Women of Grace is a UK-based charity working towards ending the harmful practices of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Honour Based Violence (HBV). We are a grassroots organisation, led and supported by survivors, activists, and health and social professionals.

Funder – Autumn 2024

Yucan is a black female founded, lived-experience led organisation that supports the wellbeing of young carers and youth with ongoing circumstances.

Funder – Spring 2024

Founded in 2019, Black Girls Hike provides a safe space for Black women to explore the outdoors. Challenging the status quo, and encouraging Black women to reconnect with nature, we host nationwide group hikes, outdoor activity days, and training events.

Funder – Spring 2024

Black SEN Mamas take pride in empowering Black SEND mothers. With unwavering dedication, they support over 1,000 mothers from diverse backgrounds.

Funder – Winter 2023

African Caribbean Education Network is addressing inequity and racial justice by improving Black underrepresentation and experiences in influential education and workplace environments. Through their own experiences, and those of other Black parents in our environments, ACEN recognised that our children face a unique set of opportunities, as well as challenges, and they wanted to be proactive in addressing both.

Funder – Winter 2023

The BCDD is a not-for-profit organisation founded with the intention of reducing health inequalities and improving health literacy in the black community. It consists of Doctors, Dentists and students of Caribbean heritage.

Funder – Spring 2023

100 Black Men of London are dedicated to uplifting the black community and empowering the youth through working with children to learn skills for a lifetime. They are mentoring the youth by providing skills that will empower them to be the best version of themselves, focusing on positively changing lives.

Funder – Spring 2023

Oxygen Arts CIC is a digital arts agency that specialises in targeting and working with diverse communities, promoting the experiences and histories of the African diaspora. They produce films and photography projects for charities and invest their profits from this work into film and photography training for young people of the global majority in London and the Caribbean. They want to connect young people in the UK across the ‘Black Atlantic’ to create digital art that explores the issues that impact their lives, enables them to speak truth to power and gives them an opportunity for a career in the industry. 

Funder – Summer 2022

5 Aside Theatre’s mission is to raise awareness of the contribution of African Caribbeans to Britain through community events. They focus on well-being, healthy living, sports camps for Key Stage 2 pupils, free School Meals for children and events. 

Funder – Summer 2022

Mindwalk Yoga exists to represent and empower Black women to embrace yoga for well-being. Black women in the UK are at a higher risk of mental ill-health, are disproportionately impacted by social detriments associated with mental illness and are more likely to seek treatment only when at crisis point.

They offer preventative wellness practices to address the early stages of mental ill-health that could reduce the need for acute care and improve health outcomes for Black women.

They have a supportive community of Black female yoga practitioners and provide an empowering and affordable mental health toolkit via an affordable online well-being platform to promote sustainable healthy living. They are a diverse all-Black female team, a virtual platform for accessibility and a mental health focus.

Funder – Spring 2021

Alfred Fagon Award works towards creating opportunities and recognition for Black British playwrights to be seen as part of the UK’s cultural mainstream with the same equality of opportunity for their work to be recognised and produced.

Their work is currently comprised of three strands:
1. Best New Play of the Year (Alfred Fagon Award)
2. Roland Rees Bursary. 
3. Mustapha Matura Award and Mentoring Programme 

Funder – Winter 2020

Sister System’s mission is to bridge the gap between care-affected girls and mainstream society, by working alongside them to ensure they have the same opportunities everyone else has – at home, school, work and within our communities.

Their unique user-shaped programmes offer a compelling and urgently needed empowerment model of early intervention, providing internationally recognised qualifications and a community of support to improve life chances for care-affected girls and young women (13-24 yrs) by enabling them to blossom into womanhood. The ‘sisters’ are the experts and, as such, are the heart of Sister System. Together they work to enhance, enable and empower you. 

Funder – Winter 2020

With Insight work to empower black-heritage students to embrace their limitless potential through mentorship and skill development programmes. They work to provide a secure and more prosperous future, where they have fairer access to top universities, professional employment and opportunities for social mobility.

They are determined to address the inequalities that our students face. They believe that creating opportunities for purposeful interactions with top universities and leading organisations is fundamental to this.