Disability Justice Fund

Issue:
Deaf and disabled people
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Activities:
Pooled funding
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Location:
London
Stage:
Existing collaboration

Aims and activities

Aims and questions

Aims and activities

Trust for London, in partnership with City Bridge Trust, has launched a £3 million Disability Justice Fund. The Fund aims to contribute to the foundations for a strong, vibrant, diverse and sustainable movement for social justice for Disabled Londoners who are more likely to be living in poverty. It will do this by supporting Deaf and Disabled people’s organisations (DDPOs) to become more effective, more powerful, more inclusive, more influential and more sustainable.

The Disability Justice Fund has been developed in partnership with Deaf and Disabled community activists and has recruited eight Disability rights experts by experience to a panel that will help make key decisions on how the funding will be spent.

The fund has been informed by research on DDPOs in England, highlighting how years of chronic underfunding have adversely affected the ability of DDPOs to organise and campaign for transformational change, and by learning from Strengthening Voices, Realising Rights, an earlier Trust for London/City Bridge Trust collaboration supporting Deaf and Disabled people’s rights and inclusion.

How to get involved

Funders interested in finding out more, or getting involved in this work can contact Joanna Wootten at Trust for London.

Who's involved

Who was involved

Who was involved

The fund is currently supported by Trust for London and City Bridge Trust, and managed by Trust for London.

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