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misery
Racial Justice
Synergi Fund Round 2
South East
misery is a mental health community and sober rave led by and for QTIBPOC with lived experience of madness. They co-creating community events, services and resources, they aim to disrupt the growing privatisation of healing and the “self-care industrial complex” by nurturing community care and addressing collective trauma.
Purpose of Funding: To relaunch Misery Medicines: Plant Magic – a series of monthly, nature-based healing gatherings for QTBIPOC, centred on herbalism and somatic practice. The programme is back by popular demand, and will return with six sessions.
Healtogether CIC is a community organisation led by and for ethnic minority communities. Their mission is to improve access to mental healthcare services for minority ethnic communities through campaigning and awareness raising, aiming to shift community narratives and misconceptions about mental health.
Purpose of Funding: To expand their ‘Hear Me Out/IDHAGAYSO,’ a culturally tailored youth programme for young Somali women. Using a train-the-trainer approach, participants will be supported to lead peer-to-peer healing spaces using traditional Somali ceremonies and dances as somatic practices. The programme includes monthly workshops, support groups and one-to-one sessions. They will also produce educational materials in Somali, and provide education and enterprise support, modelled on traditional community marketplaces.
Founded by the late Dr Azeezat Johnson, Geographies of Embodiment (GEM) Research Collective is a community of public scholars demanding and embodying liberation. They seek to integrate embodied experiences into scholarship, honouring lived experiences and other non-academic means as valuable sources of knowledge.
Purpose of Funding: To host a collaborative ‘Solidarity for Sudan’ event, raising awareness and funds for those affected by the ongoing genocide. The event will include performances by Sudanese artists, with community care offerings such as food, crafts and letter writing. A resource page will also be produced for continued learning and connection beyond the event.
Critical Youth Sound is a collective of queer, Black and global majority DJs, poets, educators and activists using sound as a tool for resistance, communion and joy. They support movements across the UK such as youth climate strikes, BLM and Kill the Bill.
Purpose of Funding: To repair and mobilise the sound system for use at protests, fundraisers and demos. Funding will also support them to deliver events, including an embodied liberation workshop exploring sound-building and somatic practices, and a programme of inclusive leisure-focused events – such as street parties, forest raves and open mic nights, creating much-needed third spaces for marginalised folks to release and find joy.
Founded and led by individuals with lived experience of parental imprisonment, the Collective Punishment Campaign (CPC). Despite parental imprisonment being recognised as an adverse childhood experience, it does not meet the threshold for children’s social care - CPC is fighting for this to change.
Purpose of Funding: To host a series of support group sessions for individuals impacted by parental imprisonment, creating a space for sharing, healing, and mobilising for systemic change. Part of the funding will also go towards campaign costs to enhance communication and collaboration.
We established in 2023 to tackle period poverty by supplying sustainable period provisions. London based but form coalitions with grass-roots organisations to best support the needs of our service users.
Purpose of Funding: To cover essential menstrual product supplies, volunteer travel costs, wellbeing workshops (yoga, reiki, sound healing), educational sessions on reproductive health, and rent for accessible spaces.
Over 7 years ago, Our Naked Truths emerged out of the need to create safe forums and alternatives for decolonial healing and transformation within a community that is often left out of the conversation, yet is most affected by the violence of all the major oppressive systems.
Purpose of Funding: To support a new Life Art Therapy and Collective Healing series consisting of four sessions.
Out & Proud African LGBTI (OPAL) is a grassroots organisation that was founded in the Oakington Immigration Removal Centre in 2009 and provides its members comprehensive legal, social, emotional, and sometimes even financial support. It serves as a support network for African LGBTIQ+ refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.
Location: Location: 20 Ringlet Drive, East Leake, LE12 6XU.
Purpose of Funding: To support workshops on asylum legal support, mental health awareness, and community engagement.
Radical Rhizomes started in 2018, after direct experience of the lack of community based provision for QTIBPoC in Brighton and Hove, and spaces not centring alcohol
Location: 118 Church St, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 1UD.
Purpose of Funding: To sustain and expand social and support network for QTIBIPoC in Brighton & Hove.
Black Men Rising is a collaboration between Decolonising the Archive (DTA) and Black Heart Mind Consultancy to provide communal healing spaces for African Heritage Men
Purpose of Funding: To pilot a transformative programme aimed at facilitating healing, resilience, and communal self-repair. Over four sessions, the programme seeks to raise awareness and begin to address the two critical challenges affecting African heritage communities: suicide among African heritage men and isolation/separatism. Led by Dr. Rowan Carr, with intergenerational conversations co-facilitated by Professor Gus John, participants can embark on a journey of self-reflection, somatic recovery, and empowerment without the need to engage with traditional health systems.
Back a Yardd is a South-London based community-focused collective which aims to reconnect people of the Global Majority back to the land.
Purpose of Funding: Funding will help to sustain their core work, including covering basic operational costs, facilitator fees, and providing creative offerings and subsidised tickets for low-income attendees.
The Nerve of My Multiple Sclerosis CIC was established to address the underrepresentation and lack of support for Black individuals with Multiple Sclerosis
(MS) in Europe.
Purpose of Funding: To expand outreach and support for Black people with Multiple Sclerosis. focusing on providing culturally sensitive assistance to address healthcare challenges, isolation, and advocacy for equitable care practices within the Black MS community.
UFFC was established in 1997 when the family campaigns of Joy Gardner, Brian Douglas, Ibrahim Sey, Roger Sylvester and others came together to build a common platform through which to provide care, support and guidance to grieving families affected by racialised police killings, and to hold police forces and state institutions to account.
Purpose of Funding: To collaborate with Forensic Architecture to build evidence detailing the lethal effects of prone restraint, disproportionately used against Black people in mental health crises.
Story of Change (FKA York Anti Racist Collective (YARC) grassroots community that practices a trauma informed, decolonised approach to healing for communities in The North.
Purpose of Funding: To continue the work started in 2022. “Art Liberation Week” a week full of creative workshops led by and for Black & Global Majority people and to pay workshop facilitators – this enables Black and Majority people to financially compensated for their expertise.
Women’s Lounge is a BPoC user-led project set up to provide a networking platform for local women, mostly from migrant communities which focuses on issues concerning the rights and welfare of vulnerable women and their families in a culturally, socially and linguistically appropriate manner.
Purpose of Funding: To enable Women’s Lounge to get back on our feet, to be able to support women who are in precarious situations as a result of post covid position as well as the cost-of-living crisis..
Therapeutic Productions CIC is a community group formed by award winning artists who spent time in the forensic mental health system. They provide therapeutic arts based interventions for forensic mental health service users.
Location: 20 Ringlet Drive, East Leake, LE12 6XU.
Purpose of Funding: To fund staffing costs, costs of creative material and resources (such as paints and other material for our artists), music studio time and also subcontracting services when needed.
The Youth Excellence Academy provides a self defence programme for Black female Muslims who are survivors of violence in Kennington, South East London. The programme will increase confidence to protect themselves in the future, whilst creating a community of women with shared lived experience.
Purpose of Funding: To introduce a new self defence programme for Black and female Muslims that have been victims of violent crime (including domestic violence).
The Rights Collective is a radical South Asian collective creating space for resistance, solidarity and harm reduction. Guided by abolitionist, anti-caste and Black feminist values, their work is motivated by the need for collective liberation from capitalist, white-supremacist, carceral norms to a world transformed by love and mutuality.
Purpose of Funding: To resource the next iteration of our community project, Satrangi / رنگی ست . Satrangi is an informal gathering for queer Muslims of all denominations to explore questions of faith and sexuality, rooted in the political, cultural and historical landscape.
Resistance Is Our Mother Tongue (RIOMT) is based in Tower Hamlets, working alongside and connect with BPOC young people between15-25 years facing systemic inequality who are seeking out alternative spaces to process and reimagine the world around them within the backdrop of inadequate youth service and a distrust of institutions.
Purpose of Funding: To launch the programme “Building an Ecosystem of Resistance, Repair & Rest,” including one creative residency and five workshops. Themes include movement building, indigenous knowledge, cross-solidarity, and collective care.
Oxford Community Action (OCA)
Synergi Fund Round 1
South East
Oxford Community Action (OCA) is a grass-roots Black African/Caribbean and Global Majority led community organisation their community-led activities are an effort of self-provision, self-determination and collective organising, the only route to address trauma and ill health brought about by a lifetime of racial oppression.
Location: 141-145 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1HU
Purpose of Funding: To cover operational expenses, food redistribution, group activities, travel assistance travel and seed funding to members to deliver projects they wish to begin self-organising (community gardening, bike clubs, organising taxi workers)
oestrogeneration are a London based collective magazine platform highlighting the voices of trans women and transfeminine people in the UK, formed in reaction to a transphobic media climate, with the hopes of empowering their point of view and shifting the narrative surrounding their identity.
Purpose of Funding: To run a dinner for trans women and transfeminine people of colour to come together, breathe, unwind and build community.
The Nejma Collective are a group of Muslim women volunteers working within an abolitionist, Islamic framework to tackle the systemic inequality and injustice of the prison system. They are motivated by Islam’s holistic approach to justice that contextualises harm, seeking accountability and reparation rather than simply caging people.
Purpose of Funding: To send financial grants, gift packs for prisoners during religious holidays, for people in prison and detention centres. mental health resources with Islamic teachings, zines showcasing prisoner work, and building links with Palestinian prisoner organisations to highlight anti-imperialist struggles and connections with UK advocacy.
Hummingbird Senior Citizens Club, based in London, is a project providing singing sessions to older adults from African Caribbean communities, many at various stages of dementia, and who have experienced loss or trauma, in particular as a result of the COVID Pandemic.
Purpose of Funding: To build on/ extend the HUMMINGBIRD VOICES pilot program of singing that began in August 2022. Funding enabled the group to work towards its ambition of putting on concerts and productions in the future and becoming a community resource for special occasions, such as birthdays, weddings, etc
Holding Her Space
South East
Holding Her Space are a Black led, community based, non-profit Doula organisation providing emotional, mental, spiritual and educational support to Black women and families through conception, pregnancy, birth and parenthood.
Location: 7 Bells Yard, London City WC2A 2JR
Purpose of Funding: To fund psychotherapy activities for members within the Equality for black Nurses (E4BN) to gain additional knowledge and equip them to better support each other from the traumatic experiences of racism that they suffer..
Foundation for Renewal and Fora (FFRAF), aims to address welfare needs of East African migrant communities and refugees to access better and timely services as they re-establish themselves in the new host community.
Location: First Floor, Suite 2, 4 Cam Road, Stratford, London E15 2SN
Purpose of Funding: To pay for the rental of space for LGBT activities
Families in Harmony advocate for Black families to unite Black kinship carers* and present the evidence as to where racial bias is present in assessment and care planning procedures. They embed and centre lived experience and trauma informed practice into all aspects of their work in their campaign to reduce the racial biases prejudicing Black kinship care families success outcomes.
Purpose of Funding: To train 4 Experts by Experience Collaborators to co-facilitate racial equity workshops that raise awareness of the historical and current structural and systemic racism impacting the African and Caribbean kinship care families.
DiaspoRainbow is a collective of QTIBPOC (Queer Trans and Intersex Black and People of Colour) leaders of community support groups across the UK. Group spaces give a unique safety from both homophobia/transphobia and racism.
Purpose of Funding: To run a 2 day event to bring together QTIBPOC (Queer Trans and Intersex Black and People of Colour) leaders of QTIBPOC community support groups around the country.
Collective Futurism is a group for Black and brown women, femmes and non-binary people in the UK 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.
Purpose of Funding: Organisational development to vision the future of the group, as well as funding a series of events and a practice toolkit for Black and Brown women, femmes, and non-binary facilitators, initiators, activists, and artists.
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 and enables its members to advocate for their loved ones.
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.
Black Muslim Women Healing Collective (BMWHC) provide intimate healing circles and workshops, as well as a directory of experienced healers from both conventional and traditional practices, all of whom identify as Black Muslim women.
Purpose of Funding: To support the delivery of Healing Circles and Sunday Sanctuaries. Funding will also cover organisational development costs such as staff CPD training and social media marketing.
BARAC stands for black activists rising against cuts, and is led by black people 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.
Purpose of Funding: Campaigning for rights of refugees and asylum seekers, against Rwanda deal, against detention and Deportations
Babylon Migrants Project was founded by a refugee actor and activist from Iran, and holds workshops in theatre, art, storytelling, film-making, photography and social action for young people from refugee, asylum seeking and migrant backgrounds.
Purpose of Funding: To deliver free creative workshops for small charities and organisations who are working with refugees and asylum seekers.
Awaken Genius provides alternative education and deliver 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..
Based in London but operating internationally, Ad’iyah is run for and by people with this lived experience and uses a reproductive justice, anti-oppression framework which welcomes all ways of being Muslim.
Purpose of Funding: To cover operational costs as well as their abortion support circles and piloting miscarriage support circles. Additionally, they will develop resources (e.g., abortion toolkits for Muslims) and fund team development, including training in radical mental health first aid and anti-oppressive practice.
ADHD Babes is user led and is an organisation established due to a lack of services and representation for Black women and non-binary people with ADHD. They hold community healing spaces, to share tools and learning to redefine and understand ADHD, to tackle its difficulties and utilise its strengths.
Purpose of Funding: To run regular support groups for our community.
Abolition x Health is a project that convened an infrastructure for groups working at the juncture of health and abolition, reflecting on how abolitionist principles can be brought to clinical practice (emphasising that this is not limited to the NHS), and used to influence the public health community when addressing the harms of the prison-industrial complex.
Purpose of Funding: The grant will be used as seed funding to create a convening infrastructure for groups working at the juncture of health and abolition..
