AmplifyChange - Opportunity Grant (2025)

Opportunity grant

Opportunity Grants aim to nurture and encourage innovative ideas and approaches on SRHR advocacy in new contexts. They allow local, small civil society and grassroots organisations to drive the advocacy agenda and ensure change happens in sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR).

The duration of an Opportunity Grant can be 18 or 24 months. This funding round is open for applications up to GBP 75,000. We encourage you to be realistic and apply for the amount that is best for your organisation and project.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• PRIORITY THEMES: The purpose of this Opportunity Grant call is to fund small civil society organisations, support their advocacy work, and strengthen them so they can bring about positive change in one of the AmplifyChange priority themes or an intersection or combination of themes: Abortion, Violence, Youth, Stigma and Access.
• OUTCOME AREAS: Applications must respond to one or more of our outcome areas in our Theory of Change: Increasing individual awareness of SRHR as human rights; Improving access to SRHR resources, information & services ; Transforming social norms ; Changing policies & laws ; and Building stronger, more inclusive movements for SRHR.
• OTHER THEMES: Within our priority themes, AmplifyChange supports cross-cutting themes that impact on SRHR and well-being and respond to challenges that advocates identify as their priorities for action. We are happy to receive applications from organisations who wish to integrate these issues into their proposals: Climate Justice, Pleasure and Mental health.

KEY APPROACHES

AmplifyChange funds advocacy. We are focused on achieving long-term, sustainable change, and we recognise that collective actions are the best way to achieve change. Understanding how you connect to the wider movement and demonstrating how you are working towards the same change is critical.

We are particularly interested to fund projects that:

• Are submitted by small, grassroots organisations that find it challenging to access funding.
• Aim to address the root causes and drivers of discriminatory social norms and inequitable power relations.
• Pilot a new idea or innovative approach and to learn lessons about what is effective.
• Implementing a promising practice that have shown initial success.
• Empower marginalised groups to advocate for their rights and access to services.
• Work towards the development, improvement and effective implementation of laws and policies, including by-laws.