Grants database

PLP was set up to ensure those marginalised through poverty, discrimination or disadvantage have access to public law remedies and can hold the state to account. They commission specialist research and policy work, provide training and support to lawyers and advisers and undertake strategic litigation in a coordinated way to achieve strategic impact.

On Road is a charity that improves media coverage and public understanding of misrepresented groups and issues. They work with third sector organisations and support people with first hand experience of the issues to do safer, paid, and more strategic media work, bringing them together with journalists to inspire great content across popular culture. Everything they do is backed by the best available communications research which tells them which stories create harm, and which ones can unlock shifts in public perception that can lead to positive changes in policy and attitudes.

IMIX is a team of professional communication experts who want to change the conversation about migration and refugees to create a more welcoming society. Working with journalists, news outlets, digital platforms and across the refugee and migration sector, IMIX seeks to create a more positive and hopeful narrative about this significant topic. IMIX collaborates extensively with experts-by-experience to highlight individual stories, placing them front and centre, to humanise and elevate the debate. Through mentoring, training and building capacity within the sector, the professionalism and standard of communications is raised to achieve a greater impact.

Founded in 1984 by leading practitioners in the field, ILPA is a membership organisation that exists to promote and improve advice and representation in immigration, asylum and nationality law, through an extensive programme of training and by providing information and opinion that draw on the experiences of members. ILPA is represented on numerous government advisory groups and regularly provides evidence to parliamentary and official enquiries.

Campaign Bootcamp is a rapidly growing charity dedicated to helping to ensure that people most impacted by injustice are leading campaigns that affect their lives, from better housing to fairer treatment of migrants, or LGBTQ+ rights. Their graduates are testifying before Parliament, organising national demonstrations, being elected to local government, changing laws and regulations and waging important, successful campaigns.

ACEVO is the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations. Together with their network of around 1,500 CEOs and aspiring CEOs, they inspire and support their sector’s leaders by providing connections, advocacy and skills. The benefits of ACEVO membership range from advice and support on all aspects of the CEO’s role, to peer networking and support. They are a strong voice advocating for our sector and its leaders with government and the media.

Delight works in multi-year partnership with schools and arts partners across Surrey. This grant aims to see child-centred, co-created arts-based learning programmes, encompassing visual art, immersive drama, engagement with heritage and Shakespeare, embedded in Keystage 2 classes over successive years. The approach aims to tackle the educational challenges arising from hidden suburban poverty and wealth divides across the county.

Attenborough Arts Centre will develop its SENsory Atelier approach, which involves child-led multi-sensory practice and Reggio Emilia principles, in nine SEND schools in Leicester. This four-year project will support arts practitioners to work collaboratively with teaching staff. Pupils aged 4–19 will learn through several different art forms, working with artists both in school and at the Centre.

This project will explore the impact of delivering an intensive version of the National Gallery’s flagship primary education programme, Take One Picture, to eleven schools in the Northampton Primary Academy Trust. The project has a strong focus on evaluation, and will trial different approaches to extending learning across the curriculum and deepening learning throughout the two years.

New Music Makers nurtures students’ creative talent, confidence and skills in composition in secondary schools in Scotland, and provides continuing professional development for classroom and instrumental school teachers. This grant will support Red Note to further develop the programme, and build and understand the evidence base to demonstrate effectiveness and wider value for students, schools and their communities.

Northern Ballet is a Leeds-based touring ballet company. Linking to Physical Education and Personal, Social, Health and Economic curriculum, the Rise programme aims to support pupils at five primary schools in Yorkshire to improve their wellbeing, health, confidence and motivation.

Meadow Arts produces unique contemporary art projects in unusual places, curating large-scale exhibitions and commissioning new artworks and events. This grant will support Meadow Arts to explore and test the potential link between how contemporary visual artists express ideas and the way children in three SEND schools in the West Midlands uniquely approach the world. Visual arts practitioners will work with classes over a full term and the project will also incorporate continuing professional development training for teachers.