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Shifting power and resource in mental health and racial justice is central to Synergi’s work.

£11,00000

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85

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We’re running an annual grants programme, and are building relationships with funders so that grassroots work in this space is valued and resourced.

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Collective Futurism

London
South East
Collective Futurism is a new group in development for black and brown women, femmes and non-binary people in the UK. They will be providing workshops as an act of transformative justice, using art and embodiment practises such as creative conversation, singing, movement, writing and painting/collaging to explore liberation themes and decolonisation. Their way of working will be trauma informed, emphasising an awareness of the balance between self and collective care, nurturing a community who will nourish each other by sharing ideas, resting and dreaming together.

Purpose of Funding: Run an organisational development process to vision the future of the group, followed by a series of workshops (some online and some in-person in London) for black and brown women, femmes and non-binary people in the UK.

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Bring British Families Home

London
South East
Bring British Families Home Bring British Families Home, hosted by the NGO Reprieve, is a collective of British families who have relatives unlawfully and indefinitely detained in North East Syria. The group was set up to enable its members to advocate for their loved ones, reduce isolation, enable its members to speak openly about their experiences, and create a safe space to support each other and fight for justice for their relatives and communities.

Location: 20 Ringlet Drive, East Leake, LE12 6XU.

Purpose of Funding: To convene regular strategy and support meetings where all members would be able to attend in person.

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bring them home

Black Muslim Women Healing Collective (BMWHC)

London
South East
Black Muslim Women Healing Collective (BMWHC) want to make healing more accessible. Black Muslim women face racial prejudice and gendered islamophobia from the non-Muslim community, and they often face real racial prejudices from the wider non-Black Muslim community. This collective provides intimate healing circles and workshops, and will be developing a website, the home of a new directory. The directory will be a unique hub of experienced healers from both conventional and traditional practices, all of who identify as Black Muslim Women. This will provide an opportunity to seek healing in a place that can empathetically hold the cultural and spiritual heritage of Black Muslim Women whilst being familiar with the reality of their lived experience.

Purpose of Funding: The rebranding and developing
of a brand new website which will be the home of a new directory.
The directory is a unique hub of experienced healers who identify
as Black Muslim Women.

Get in Touch
salaam@blackmuslimwomenhealing.com

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Be Active Recovery Group

Birmingham
West Midlands
Be Active Recovery Group are a group of (long-term) mental health service users who meet weekly at the Ladywood Leisure Centre (LLC). The group is user-led and has 85% of members from the POC community in Inner City Birmingham, with a high percentage that are refugees. By staying in touch with their members through life crises, they support them using a person-centred/peer-mentor model and help them to access services that can assist recovery.

Purpose of Funding: To offer individualised support to enable our members to attend our sessions and to participate in the activities we organise. We aim to extend our services reaching out to refugee communities who have many members with mental health difficulties. Some members have been refugees themselves and will lead this initiative.

BARAC 

London
South East
BARAC stands for black activists rising against cuts, and campaigns on behalf of black communities against racist policies, laws and attacks due to systemic and institutional racism which impacts on mental health, causes trauma and stress related illness. Led by black people, their campaigns are by and for the people. They played a key role campaigning on the Windrush scandal, regularly coordinate Humanitarian aid and solidarity missions, and support individuals and groups by providing tools and advice.

Purpose of Funding: Campaigning for rights of refugees and asylum seekers, against Rwanda deal, against detention and Deportations

Get in Touch
https://blackactivistsrisingagainstcuts.blogspot.com/

Babylon Migrants Project

London
South East
Babylon Migrants Project was founded by a refugee actor and activist from Iran, who realized there was a real gap in social provision for asylum seekers, especially those living in hotels. Babylon Project holds workshops in theatre, art, storytelling, film-making, photography and social action for young people from refugee, asylum seeking and migrant backgrounds. The project is staffed by a team of volunteers, most of whom have this lived experience.

Purpose of Funding: To deliver free creative workshops for small charities and organisations who are working with refugees and asylum seekers.

Get in Touch
https://www.babylonproject.co.uk/

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Awaken Genius Alternative Education

London
South East
Awaken Genius provides alternative education. They address Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), particularly in Black children and their families in socially and economically deprived areas of London. They are black-led and target the disproportionate exclusion of Black children, particularly Black Caribbean boys, fuelling the ‘school to prison’ pipeline. They will deliver a Community-Creative Art Family Wellbeing Workshop to develop and maintain pleasurable parent-child relationships; and a School Exclusion Workshop to help parents better understand their legal rights in educational law, and signpost parents to advocacy services.

Purpose of Funding: To deliver Community-Creative Art Family Wellbeing Workshop and School Exclusion Workshop to help parents better understand their legal rights in educational law, and signpost parents to an advocacy service to further support parents if their child is at risk of permanent exclusion..

Get in Touch
info@awakengenius.org

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The Dunbar Project (previously Adoptee Futures)

Sheffield
North East
The Dunbar Project (previously Adoptee Futures) is the first UK organisation to centre adoptees. The founders are Black and LGBTQ+ and share the lived experience of adoption trauma. They began the project because of a severe lack of mental health support for adoptees over the age of 21 and wish to reclaim the adoption narrative, reframe the world’s view on adoption, and help adoptees heal through their trauma. Adoptee Futures will be developing an online centre to provide a wide variety of resources for Black and LGBTQ+ adoptees, giving people access to in-depth information on adoption issues and mental health, platforming the lived experience of adoptees.

Purpose of Funding: To develop a online digital resource centre on adoption for adoptees develop the site, create copy and upload content.

Get in Touch
https://www.thedunbarproject.org.uk

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Ad’iyah Muslim Abortion Collective

London
South East
Based in London but operating internationally, Ad’iyah began as a response to the lack of cultural competency for Muslim people in the mainstream NHS abortion space. The project is run for and by people with this lived experience, made out of love for Muslim communities and the desire to have a space to talk about experiences and centre healing in support circles. Ad’iyah uses a reproductive justice, anti-oppression framework which welcomes all ways of being Muslim. They will be producing resources and running creative spaces over the upcoming period.

Purpose of Funding: To support more collaborative work by designing resources on safe abortion and community care for Muslims,

Get in Touch
https://www.adiyah.community/

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Adira

Sheffield
North East
Adira is a survivor-led mental health and wellbeing service that provides a judgement-free, survivor-led space for members of the African Caribbean community in Sheffield. They offer culturally appropriate support, co-designed with people across their communities, and proactively share best practice with statutory organisations to improve services more widely. This project operates a self-care hub where people can receive culturally appropriate haircare products, as there is a massive link between black hair and black mental health in the community.

Location: 20 Ringlet Drive, East Leake, LE12 6XU.

Purpose of Funding: To create 2 additional service hubs to add to the existing one which was created in December 2022 in response to the cost of living crisis. with a focus on self-care items only, such as household cleaning products, persona hygiene products and skin and haircare products for men, women and families.

Get in Touch
adiraboard@adira.org.uk

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