A partnership between Unbound Philanthropy, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Legal Education Foundation is making available £600,000 over three years from 2018 through the Transition Advice Fund (TAF). The fund aims to ensure that EU citizens living in the UK have the support that is needed to secure their right to settled status. TAF will prioritise those who are likely to face barriers, described in this Migration Observatory report, and has a particular interest in the needs and rights of young people. Recent attention given to the Windrush generation and young people who have spent the majority of their lives in the UK but do not have settled status highlights the importance of this fund.

ABCT supports charities that defend human rights and promote respect for vulnerable individuals whatever their circumstances. The Trust is particularly interested in charities that work with marginalised and excluded people in society, with a focus on migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, prisoners and penal reform, human rights, particularly access to justice.

The objects of the charity are to make grants for charitable purposes to other charities and individuals. Grants are made under the categories of medical research, vulnerable in society, war veterans, homelessness, human rights, hospices and the arts.

They want to support people to create a world in which power is more equally shared, and in which powerful institutions are responsive and accountable to wider society and aligned with the long-term public interest. Their funding priorities are : Strengthening corporate accountability, Strengthening democratic accountability, Encouraging responsible media.

The Foundation supports projects that seek to influence values and attitudes, promote equity and social justice, and develop radical alternatives to current economic and social structures. The main priorites are; peace and sustainable security and environmental sustainability. They only support practical projects when they are clearly of a pioneering nature, with potential for influencing UK national policy.

The Trustees can fund a wide range of charitable activity but are particularly interested in supporting those charities or projects connected with community development, environmental, women’s and youth issues with a view to including social inclusion at all levels. In 2018 they funded under the headings citizenship and community development, arts, conservation, health, human rights, relief of poverty, religion and sport.

The scheme will award grants to enable a community-based and access-related project which might otherwise not proceed. Projects should fit with ScotWays aims which are the preservation, defence, restoration and acquisition, for the public benefit, of public rights of access in Scotland, including public rights of way and related amenity. Applicant organisations should be members of ScotWays.

The Strategic Legal Fund for Vulnerable Young Migrants (SLF) is a fund to support legal work that goes beyond securing justice for an individual and makes a significant contribution to law, practice and procedures to uphold and promote the rights of vulnerable migrant children and young people more generally. It aims to tackle injustices and inconsistencies in law and practice that disadvantage or discriminate against vulnerable young migrants as a result of their migration status. They do this by making grants to organisations to: undertake pre-litigation research, ormake third party interventions to ensure that the key legal points are made in existing cases.

Trustees will consider proposals in the field of autistic spectrum disorder. Wherever possible, projects are preferred which include people with ASD in decision-making. The Trust also considers proposals in the field of disability, violence and access to justice. This is a developing field of interest. At present grants in this area mainly arise from trustees’ own research and that of their expert advisers. The trustees have an annual small grants programme for play schemes run in the summer school holiday which support children with ASD.

This small trust supports charities working in Scotland and overseas – focusing on children and young people, community arts, social justice, international development, health and wellbeing and community outreach programmes.