Refugees and Asylum Seekers Grant Programme

The Rayne Foundation has a long history of supporting refugees and asylum seekers who have been displaced from their home countries because of conflict or persecution. The Foundation focuses on opportunities that raise aspirations and add to the positive narrative about refugees' contributions to society. They fund work that creates significant new opportunities relating to employability, entrepreneurial endeavours and personal development for refugees and asylum seekers, and uses the arts and creativity to build community between migrants and the wider community. The Foundation seeks projects that are based on different thinking, enable innovation, have potential for wider application beyond the funded proposal, and can demonstrate match-funding contributions. They value outward-facing, networked organizations that actively seek to collaborate, believing this maximizes the potential for learning to be shared and for funding to have impact beyond the immediate grant.