Grants database

Southampton Music Hub is a growing partnership of local, regional and national organisations, working together to build an inspiring and inclusive programme of music making that reflects the cultural diversity of Southampton. This co-constructed programme explores literacy and music learning through rap and spoken word. Southampton Music Hub is partnering with a rap/​spoken word artist, music hub practitioners and school teachers and leaders from three Southampton primary schools.

S.M.I.L.E‑ing Boys project is a research-led arts and well-being organisation working with Black and minoritised boys in London. This grant supports the project in scaling their pilot programme to deliver a creative schools’ offer around the ​‘8 Pillars of Happiness’ to Year 9 and 10 students. The programme aims to improve overall engagement in learning in a format that provides inclusive tools for students and teachers to explore and pursue their specific interests. Young people will co-construct the sessions and teacher and senior leadership will engage in development around cultural equity, curriculum and complete culture decolonisation.

London Bubbles is a company whose ethos that ​‘people make theatre’ informs their values and work around participating, creating, performing and watching theatre. This project adapts the company’s highly successful ​‘Speech Bubbles’ drama for communication programme. The programme supports children in Key Stage 1 who have been negatively affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, including increased numbers of children with speech, language and communication needs. Working with specialists in children’s Social Emotional and Mental Health, London Bubble will reflect on and refine their practice and deliver a programme of work to schools between February 2021 and March 2022.

DanceEast enables everyone to experience dance. They aim to raise aspirations and transform lives by championing excellence, engaging the public, and inspiring artists. This grant supports DanceEast to create an accessible, scalable and innovative teaching pedagogy with over 20 Suffolk primary schools, in order to support learning in dance and across the curriculum. The programme focuses on the advancement of blending digital and face-to-face pedagogies, building on existing evidence, and rolling out incrementally over three and a half years.

Yorkshire Dance is a charity which champions the value of dance and its development in Yorkshire and provides opportunities for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to take part in high quality dance. This grant supports Company of People (COP), a project to create a community performance company representing the intersections of ages, genders, abilities and ethnic backgrounds in Chapeltown and Harehills, Leeds. Local dance artists will work with COP to create work exploring gender and intersectionality and COP members will access fun, sociable opportunities to build technique and experience, culminating in a major new performance for Leeds 2023.

MK Gallery is a public venue and educational charity, presenting British and international contemporary art exhibitions alongside events, films, learning and community programmes. This grant supports MK Gallery’s Inclusive Practice in the Arts programme which enables families with children with profound and multiple needs to access stimulating and inspiring arts-based programmes. MK Gallery will increase opportunities to access high quality art engagement; develop progression routes for young people as they transition towards adulthood; strengthen and develop new partnerships; and become a regional hub through which to share best practice.

Frozen Light makes sensory theatre for adult and young adult audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) which they tour to theatres and arts centre across the UK. This grant supports Frozen Light to explore how their audiences with PMLD can be co-creators in their work including the training of artists in sensory performance. Frozen Light will make a multi-sensory space into which they will invite audiences to explore new ideas and push the boundaries of meaningful collaboration.

United Legal Access provide low-cost legal support in the community. They focus on providing legal assistance, legal education and advocating on behalf of migrant and ethnic minority groups, individuals and communities that are often marginalised, discriminated against and facing injustice. This grant supports United Legal Access to deliver advice and casework to Windrush Compensation Scheme claimants, with the support of lawyers at two international legal firms working pro bono. Two ULA solicitors will provide supervision of the volunteers’ advice and casework.

Settled is a new charity whose mission is to guide, inform and assist EU citizens to gain settled status in the UK and to respond to the difficulties that they face – now and in the future. This grant supports the employment of a Service Coordinator based in Manchester who will oversee activities throughout the North of England, the region with least provision at present. The Coordinator will map unmet need, manage multi-lingual volunteer-run services, monitor impact and build mutually beneficial connections with diverse partners in the area.

Refugee Legal Support (RLS) are a group of UK and EU asylum lawyers acting in solidarity with refugees in Greece. They provide free legal support to those seeking sanctuary in Greece or reunification with their family members elsewhere in Europe. This grant supports RLS to influence the post-Brexit replacement of the Dublin family reunion procedures in 2021 by contributing to advocacy and strategic litigation using their casework evidence base around accessible, safe, legal routes to family reunification.

North Kensington Law Centre (NKLC) is the oldest law centre in England. NKLC has maintained their focus on communities most in need of legal support and services. This grant supports the collaboration of community groups, university law clinics and law centres to provide free legal representation for people who were affected by the Windrush scandal. This will provide victims with a single point of contact and will ensure that they can access high quality pro bono legal advice.

Migration Policy Scotland (MPS) is an independent think tank in Scotland working to promote and sustain a constructive approach to migration. They foster dialogue on migration policy supported by evidence and inclusive engagement and aim to offer principled and effective solutions to the challenges migration may pose while actively championing its benefits. This grant supports MPS to incorporate lived experiences of migration across their work including governance and decision-making, deepening insight, and accessing learning and leadership development opportunities.