Round 17: Roots Fund

The Roots Fund

(Funding Round 17): September-December 2025

In the context of the racist riots of 2024, the rise of organised far-right power in 2025 as well as the continuation of colonial violence in Congo, Sudan and Palestine-  the Roots Fund was opened. The Roots Fund (Funding round 17) was a £40K pot to support and resource grassroots groups for racial justice, against Islamophobia and those organising against UK colonial violence and legacy.

We received 100 applications of incredible groups and organisation doing anti-militarist work, direct action against detention centres, muslim youth-led organising and many more.

These are the 40 grantees:

  1. Migrant Justice Manchester, 📍 Manchester, North West England – ✊🏾 Migrant Justice Manchester is a collective fighting for justice and liberation for all migrants, campaigning for no more deportations and housing for everyone. (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/migrantjusticemcr)

  2. Action Against Detention and Deportations, 📍 UK-wide – ✊🏾 Autonomous collective resisting detention, deportations, and the hostile environment, providing solidarity and coordinating joint campaigns. (Website: https://againstdetentiondeportations.wordpress.com | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/actiondetdep)

  3. Congolese Roots, 📍 London – ✊🏾 Collective of Congolese migrants resisting extractivism and colonial legacies through community, culture, and healing. (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/congoleseroots)

  4. South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG), 📍 Sheffield – ✊🏾 Migrant-led organisation opposing the hostile environment and supporting asylum seekers across Sheffield and beyond. (Website: http://www.symaag.org.uk | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/symaag_)

  5. BAXSAN, 📍 London – ✊🏾 Peer-led collective creating safe spaces for queer Somalis and reclaiming identity through a diasporic lens. (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/baxsancollective)

  6. Hoyos For Healing, 📍 Greenwich, London – ✊🏾 Collective creating safe spaces for Somali, East African, and Muslim women to de-stigmatise mental health support. (Website: https://hoyosforhealing.my.canva.site | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoyosforhealing)

  7. Global Majority Copwatch, 📍 London – ✊🏾 Abolitionist group focused on community safety from police and state violence for global majority communities. (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/globalmajoritycopwatchuk)

  8. No to Hassockfield, 📍 Durham – ✊🏾 Community campaign working to close the UK’s all-female immigration detention centre. (Website: http://www.notohassockfield.org.uk | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/no2hassockfield)

  9. Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike, 📍 London – ✊🏾 Campaign fighting poverty, overwork, violence, and immigration injustice while centring women of colour. (Website: https://globalwomenstrike.net/womenofcolour | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenofcolour_gws)

  10. Easton Community Cupboard, 📍 Norwich – ✊🏾 Volunteer-run group supporting refugees and asylum seekers while challenging systemic injustice locally. (Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eastoncommunitycupboard | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenlenetwork)

  11. People Against Rafael, 📍 Newcastle upon Tyne – ✊🏾 Grassroots campaign opposing weapons production and demanding closure of Pearson Engineering. (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peopleagainstrafael)

  12. South Asian Liberation Movement, 📍 Greater Manchester – ✊🏾 Collective resisting racism, misogyny, police violence, and xenophobia while building UK-wide solidarity. (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/southasianliberationmovement)

  13. Mimosa Midwives, 📍 Birmingham & Black Country – ✊🏾 Collective advocating for culturally safe maternity care addressing Black maternal and infant mortality. (X: https://x.com/MimosaMidwives)

  14. Queer Migrant Pride Fest, 📍 London – ✊🏾 Free annual festival creating radical, empowering spaces led by queer migrants in asylum systems. (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/queer_migrant_pride_fest)

  15. Latin American Migrant Maternities Network (RedMAMI), 📍 London – ✊🏾 Network supporting Latin American migrant parents’ wellbeing and health justice within hostile systems. (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redmami.uk)

  16. Cabra For All, 📍 Dublin 7 – ✊🏾 Dublin-based grassroots group building anti-racist, pro-solidarity community power. (Website: https://cabraforall.com)

  17. ESEA Sisters in Nature, 📍 London – ✊🏾 Nature-based healing gatherings for ESEA women, trans, and non-binary people. (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/esea.sisters.in.nature)

  18. Disability and Migration Network (DAMN), 📍 UK-wide – ✊🏾 Network bridging disability justice and migrant justice through accessible cross-movement organising. (Website: https://disability-migration.org.uk | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/damnetworkuk)

  19. In Between Zones, 📍 London – ✊🏾 Curatorial initiative exploring diasporic experiences through artistic interventions across the city. (Website: https://www.inbetween-zones.com)

  20. Jade Peach Collective, 📍 Thanet, East Kent – ✊🏾 Collective providing holistic wellness services for marginalised communities resisting systemic injustice. (Website: http://jadepeachmassage.com)

  21. Workers in Palestine, 📍 London – ✊🏾 Activists building solidarity with Palestinian workers within the labour movement. (Instagram/X: https://www.instagram.com/workersinpalestine)

  22. Justice for Sponsored Workers, 📍 Birmingham – ✊🏾 Coalition of trafficked overseas workers fighting for dignity, justice, and survival. (Website: https://migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/hostile-office/sponsored-slavery-justice-for-sponsored-workers)

  23. Kairos – Nottingham Lesbian Immigration Support Group, 📍 Nottingham – ✊🏾 Group providing support for lesbian and bisexual women seeking asylum. (Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064754436914)

  24. Ohafia Women’s Group Greater Manchester, 📍 Manchester – ✊🏾 Non-profit supporting Ohafia women through cultural, educational, and social programmes.

  25. Ealing Friends of Palestine, 📍 Ealing, London – ✊🏾 Grassroots activist group building local solidarity with Palestinian liberation. (Website: https://ealingfriendsofpalestine.com | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ealingfriendsofpalestine)

  26. London for a Free Palestine, 📍 London – ✊🏾 Collective organising direct action against genocide, colonialism, and systemic oppression. (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/london4pal)

  27. Remember & Resist / daikon*, 📍 Glasgow & Edinburgh – ✊🏾 Project expanding abolitionist thinking and political education within ESEA diaspora communities. (Website: https://remember-resist.co.uk | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/remember.resist)

  28. Collaboration for Change (CfC), 📍 Belfast – ✊🏾 Pan-Ireland network connecting grassroots activists for mutual support and collective action. (Website: https://cfctogether.org/about-cfc)

  29. Action 2 Inspire Oldham, 📍 Oldham, Greater Manchester – ✊🏾 Charity supporting young people through mentoring, education, and community programmes. (TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@a2i9157)

  30. Brighton Care Collective, 📍 Brighton & Hove – ✊🏾 Collective centring disabled and neurodivergent people through care, knowledge-sharing, and decolonial healing. (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carecollective.btn)

  31. The Global Majority Collective (Calderdale), 📍 Halifax – ✊🏾 Network of Global Majority artists using creativity as resistance and collective care.

  32. MagicUs!, 📍 Durham – ✊🏾 Community supporting Black parents of autistic children while challenging systemic racism in care. (Resources: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lkHHYcwgaXE6GyK8TIKnBKOyi85x0ICi)

  33. Act Up Fight Back, 📍 Leeds & London – ✊🏾 Defence classes combining political education with physical self-defence for QtBPOC communities. (Website: https://radicalresources.org/aufb | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/actupfightbackleeds)

  34. The Way Back Project (Fathers Collective), 📍 Sheffield – ✊🏾 Collective of Muslim and global majority fathers challenging toxic masculinity through nature and storytelling.

  35. Natural Gardeners Club, 📍 Waltham Forest, London – ✊🏾 Nature-based education and wellbeing group fostering learning and connection. (Website: http://www.londongarden.org | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naturalgardeners)

  36. Thanet 4 Palestine, 📍 Margate – ✊🏾 Grassroots group organising local action in solidarity with Palestine. (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thanet4palestine)

  37. Bristol Copwatch, 📍 Bristol – ✊🏾 Independent police monitoring organisation undertaking casework and community-based campaigns. (Website: https://copwatchersorg.wordpress.com | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bristolcopwatch)

  38. Scottish Asylum Seekers Residents Association (SASRA), 📍 Glasgow – ✊🏾 Asylum seeker-led group advocating for dignified housing and wellbeing. (Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sasresidents)

  39. End Deportations Belfast, 📍 Belfast – ✊🏾 Anti-racist group opposing border regimes, detention, and deportation across Ireland and the UK. (Website: https://enddeportationsbelfast.com | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enddeportationsbelfast)

  40. Jinnaah UK, 📍 London – ✊🏾 Collective amplifying Gazan artists while challenging injustice in the UK cultural sector.