Paul Hamlyn Foundation

✨Opportunities for young people Do you know a young person who is passionate about social justice? Several of the incredible organisations we support are looking for young people to share their voice and vision to help make a difference Please share these opportunities with the young people in your networks 🙏 We Belong 3x Co-Producers We Belong are seeking 3 Co-Producers located in either London or Manchester to help advance their work. Co-producers will be young activists (aged 18-25) who will work closely with We Belong's team so that young migrants know their rights and entitlements. Ages: 18-25 Location: London or Manchester Paid opportunity 📆 Apply by 6 June 🔗 https://lnkd.in/edvZM-yZ Migration Museum 10x Young People’s Panel Members They are looking for 10 passionate young people aged 14-19 to join their Young People’s Panel, helping to shape their events, programming and the way we work with young people in their new permanent museum. Ages: 14-19 Location: London Paid opportunity 📆 Apply by 14 June 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e7VZMZD6 Fair Education Alliance 12x Youth Steering Group Members The FEA are looking for young people aged 14–21 who are passionate about education equity and have faced barriers to a fair education to join their Youth Steering Group. Ages: 14-21 Location: England Voluntary, expenses paid 📆 Apply by 28 June 🔗https://lnkd.in/darz9b-H Image credit: Alina Marinescu for Fine Acts (CC-BY-NC-SA): https://lnkd.in/edW_MK7

Eid Saeed! 🌙✨ Wishing all those celebrating a joyful Eid filled with love, joy and blessings. May this special day bring happiness to your heart and home.

📢New blog Backbone Fund: sustaining the conditions for justice, democracy and collective care This year, we’ve made grants totalling £2 million to organisations through our Backbone Fund. The Backbone Fund provides core, long-term funding each year to organisations working across civil society — organisations whose work sustains the conditions for justice, democracy and collective care. This year’s Backbone partners are doing this work in deeply rooted and essential ways: building community assets at a local level, coalition building for a future without racism, and strengthening the infrastructure that supports LGBTQ+ communities. This new blog explores how these organisations are working to hold communities together and safeguard hard-won progress in these uncertain times. Read the blog: https://lnkd.in/e-ttVH6g Illustration credit: Palak Garg.

🧡 A Million Acts of Hope Every day, across the UK, people are showing up for each other. Together they are quietly doing extraordinary things for one another — for their neighbours, their communities — choosing hope over hate. From English classes to acts of welcome, hope is happening everywhere. Hundreds of communities and charities, including so many of the organisations we support, are taking part in A Million Acts of Hope — a campaign to bring hope out into the open. From 13-20 May, A Million Acts of Hope are marking a Week of Action — it’s a time to celebrate the everyday acts of kindness, care and connection happening across the UK. At a time when division can feel loud, this powerful campaign brings together all these everyday acts of hope and shines a light on the people and communities making them happen. Especially when life feels tough, that’s when hope matters most of all. There are lots of ways you can take part. ✨Use the hope dispenser for inspiration: https://lnkd.in/e_4mdf9e 📋Sign the UK's biggest thank you card for the folks who make hope happen: https://lnkd.in/e8KDEnCP 🧡Then keep it going into Refugee Week (15–21 June) with Simple Acts — Walk & Talk, Share Food and Stories, and more: https://lnkd.in/eHHg_RNr

The Alliance for Youth Organising is hiring two new Co-Leads! 💰£59,094 pro-rated to three days a week per co-lead (£35,456).  ⏳23.59 Sunday 31 May 2026 📍https://bit.ly/AYOCoLeads The Alliance for Youth Organising are an intergenerational group of organisers and campaigners from across the UK working to shift power and money to young people. The Alliance came together in February 2024 and since then have designed a compelling new strategy to increase youth power and moved £1 million to youth organising groups across the UK. They are now seeking senior co-leads to: 🔎 Consolidate and share the learning from these investments and from the field 📣 Use this to influence funders to drive more and better money to youth organising 💷 Strengthen their grantmaking 💡 Support them to deepen their networks and knowledge 💻 Manage their operations and communications The full role description and application process are linked above. Please apply by 23.59 on 31 May 2026 and get in touch with any questions. #YouthOrganising #SocialJustice #Philanthropy #Hiring

We want to see a just future where everyone can realise their full potential and enjoy fulfilling and creative lives. Focusing on mental health is an important part of this. Every year, many of us experience mental health issues, often linked to injustices, like racism, financial insecurity and xenophobia. We are proud to fund organisations who work in different ways to tackle systemic injustice and to support mental health. This Mental Health Awareness Week, we want to highlight a few of our grant holders who work in this space. 💚 Black Thrive Global seeks to address the inequalities that Black people face throughout their lives which negatively impact their mental health and wellbeing, experiences, and outcomes. Their Research Institute and Observatory works to develop and implement Black-led research and research from a Black-lens to use evidence-based research and policy to undo racial inequities in mental health outcomes and care. https://lnkd.in/eYSQuBEg 💚 Participation and the Practice of Rights is a grassroots human rights organisation based in Belfast that campaigns for economic, social and environmental change. To support people impacted by hostile environment policies, their Kind Economy programme fosters connection, compassion and dignity to support healing and trauma recovery. https://lnkd.in/eiKMwAds 💚 BLAM Charity ( Black Learning Achievement and Mental Health) UK (Black Learning Achievement and Mental Health) is committed to improving the wellbeing of peoples of African descent. They work to improve Black British students' mental health by providing free, specialist advocacy in School Exclusion Appeal Services and by campaigning to embed Black history into the UK education system. https://blamuk.org/

Congratulations to Liz Robinson, who has just been appointed Chair of Trustees of the Fair Education Alliance — a cross-sector coalition of organisations tackling educational inequity. For over 20 years, Liz has championed a broader vision of education — a ‘big’ education that integrates ‘head, heart and hand’, and has worked to support innovation across schools and leadership development programmes. Her commitment to a broad and inclusive vision of education is inspiring and strongly aligns with the FEA's work to address the root causes of socioeconomic inequity in education so that all children can thrive. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gThknzmb

🗳️Polls are now open in England, Scotland and Wales for the biggest round of elections since 2024. If you haven't yet — go vote and have a say in the decisions that impact you and your community. And don't forget your voter ID! 🪪 As voting gets underway, we are excited to share this update from The Advocacy Academy, who we support through our Youth Strategic Investment Fund. The Advocacy Academy is a home for youth organising in the UK. They build the power of young people with lived experience of injustice to develop their own political identity, build a community rooted in joy and solidarity, and take action to address the most pressing issues of our time. Their young organisers hosted their first-ever Reverse Hustings at The Liberation Centre ahead of the May 2026 London elections, putting young people in charge of questioning local candidates. The BBC captured the night as 80 young people from youth groups across Lambeth came together to hold power to account, marking a major milestone for youth-led organising in the UK, and what’s possible when young people are given the space, tools, and platform to lead. ✊ Read more: https://lnkd.in/em5x5caR