We’re delighted to announce the upcoming launch of a new large grants programme! Running alongside our long-standing small grants programme, the large grants programme will give organisations the opportunity to apply for a larger, multi-year grant, to support socialist political education work.
For 50 years, the Trust has fostered socialist research and political education in movements for human rights, peace and social justice through small project grants to individuals and organisations. Recognising the particular value of work that happens over years rather than months, the large grants programme aims to provide support to organisations taking a long-term approach to creating transformative change.
The Lipman-Miliband Trust large grants programme is open to organisations with an income of £5,000 – £500,000 and that have been established for at least two years. All applications must further the Trust’s aims of supporting study and research into socialist ideas and practice and educational activities that increase public understanding of struggles for peace, human rights and democracy.
Applications will open on Monday 14th October and close on 16th December.
At the Trust’s March 2023 grants meeting, we offered financial awards to ten valuable projects from all over the UK. These comprised:
A library of radical children’s literature in Glasgow.
An accessible booklet documenting the struggle for grassroots democracy and female liberation in Kurdistan (produced in Bristol).
A conference in Manchester which will enable workers to learn from each other about workplace exploitation.
A podcast produced in Dorset that helps people understand how UK agrarian workers organise themselves and how this relates to other global workers’ movements.
A South London theatre production co-created with 15-25 year olds that explores the lowering of the voting age in order to generate youth engagement.
Three community education days in Belfast, which focus on the history of capitalism and trade union organisation within the specific context of Northern Ireland.
A multi-media, anti-racist and feminist live performance in Bexhill on Sea’s De La Warr Pavilion, which also incorporates workshops and an exhibition.
A new website to accompany a quarterly newspaper, currently distributed and sold by rough sleepers and asylum seekers across Britain.
A weekly podcast produced in North London offering a socialist lens on contemporary economic issues.
A festival of radical ideas in Devon, organised by regional participants in The World Transformed.
At their July meeting, the Trustees decided that, following our current round of applications (due to be decided in November), we will be raising our maximum grant to £3000. We know that inflation and rising costs are making it harder than ever to get socialist education projects off the ground and we want to help.
We are always delighted to hear from you about how our grants have been spent from the national to the local. In the North East of England we helped fund a project on local radical history with innovative online route maps that enable people to explore, individually or collectively, sites of campaigns for social justice.