Grant Programme

Shifting power and resource in mental health and racial justice is central to Synergi’s work. As part of this, resourced grassroots groups working in this space via our grant programme

£318,386

provided in grant funding

72

grants
awarded

61

groups
supported

Our annual grants programme aims to building relationships with funders so that grassroots work in this space is valued and resourced.

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Mcr Womxn Justice Collective

Synergi Fund Round 2
North West
Mcr Womxn Justice Collective (MWJC) is an abolitionist project. Through events and gathering, performance, film, poetry and conversation, the collective holds space for girls and womxn to reflect on gendered and racialised harm, share in joy and grief, and resist carceral systems.

Purpose of Funding: The grant will support organisational development, funding a retreat for 15 MWJC members to regroup and dream. They will use the time away for critical reflection to further shape the collective’s values and organising principles, whilst also focusing on rest and collective care.

Muslim Social Justice Initiative CIC

Synergi Fund Round 2
North West
MSJI was launched in response to repeated issues pertaining to hierarchy, power dynamics, and safeguarding that were occurring in BPOC community groups in Manchester, alongside the lack of interjectionally affirming spaces for Muslim young people broadly in the North. 

Purpose of Funding: To support nine months of organisational costs and youth session delivery.

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Contact 1 — Muslim Social Justice Initiative

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Nubia Wellness and Healing (NWAH) CIC

Synergi Fund Round 2
North West
Nubia Wellness and Healing (NWAH) Community Interest Company (CIC) officially formed on 5 March 2024 to use the best of African healing methods to improve emotional well-being particularly for people of African ancestry. 

Location: P.O Box 536 Stockport CheshireSK5 6WA

Purpose of Funding: To deliver Emotional Emancipation Circles (EECs), an eight-session community healing programme for people of African ancestry.

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Contact Us | NubiaWAH

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The Muslim Voice

Synergi Fund Round 2
North West
Online
The Muslim Voice is spearheaded by two Muslim voice hearers to support other Muslim voice hearers who are shamed and stigmatised into silence by starting a safe platform where no-one will be judged for their beliefs and ideations.

Purpose of Funding: To develop and building the basic infrastructure of the group such as operational costs

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The Muslim Voice

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Ubuntu – Liverpool’s Black Wellbeing Collective

Synergi Fund Round 2
North West
Ubuntu was formed in 2022 to recognise the need in the Liverpool community for grassroots, decolonised wellbeing services run by us, for us. We operate from the heart of the L8 community utilising local community spaces. 

Purpose of Funding: To scale free Wellbeing Days, increasing access to healing activities such as yoga, drumming, and reiki, while supporting Black-owned businesses through market stalls.

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Yuvanis Foundation

Synergi Fund Round 1
North West
Yuvanis Foundation is grassroots organisation led by and for local BAME people which has evolved to become a leading BAME led organisation that provides activities and services for the physical, mental and personal developmental needs of the community. 

Location: Middleton Rd, Chadderton, Oldham OL9 6JN

Purpose of Funding: To organise an 8-weeks bereavement peer-support service and led by a qualified female bi-lingual counsellor. The instructor also has lived-experience of child loss and is a trained Muslim scholar.

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admin@yuvanis.org

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Mr Boy Cookery School CIC

Synergi Fund Round 1
North West
Online
Mr. Boy Cookery School provides cultural cooking classes for people seeking asylum and with refugee status in Liverpool. Kazem, the founder, is a chef with an extensive background working in the food industry.

Purpose of Funding: To fund ten weekly cultural cooking classes for people seeking asylum and with refugee status in Liverpool who are isolated, miss home food and don’t have skills to cook

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Kazem Ashourzadeh (@mrboyfood) • Instagram photos and videos

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