Grants database

Gemma Hallett is a former teacher and International Rugby Player who set up the miFuture app to connect school leavers in Wales with real time job opportunities. miFuture’s mission is to help schools, colleges and alternative provision deliver personalised and digital careers sessions to school leavers, and to position Wales as a leader on youth employment.

Liz Laurence has a background in housing policy and community advocacy. This grant will support her to create a platform that tracks financial and non-financial contributions through the lifetime of a co-owned property with the aim of determining the resulting equity. The project hopes to build a better, more supportive process around collaborative home-buying.

DINN Enterprise CIC supports individuals living in underserved communities so that they can achieve their goals in entrepreneurship and wellness. Moon Landing aims to create safe spaces for under-served black womxn living in poverty to connect with each other and de-stigmatise their experience of periods. The programme will include personal development and menstrual health teaching events, the provision of period products and information about support womxn can access if they are experiencing period poverty.

Young at Art will explore how supporting teachers to use drama and visual arts approaches in the classroom can impact on pupils’ critical thinking skills. The focus for teachers’ inquiry will be The World Around Us aspect of the Northern Ireland curriculum. Through arts-based approaches teachers will focus on open-ended learning processes and questioning, supporting pupils to play, imagine, develop new vocabulary and build connections between knowledge, understanding and experiences.

In Teach-Make, Imagineer Productions, Highly Sprung Performance Company, six Coventry primary schools and academics from the universities of Warwick and Central Lancashire are collaborating to develop skills, knowledge and understanding of physical theatre, art, design and technology, in order to support children’s learning in STEM and the arts, through experiential, embodied approaches and cross-curricular contexts.

Working with a group of primary schools in Birmingham, Stan’s Cafe uses Devising Theatre and immersive drama approaches to develop teachers’ practice with an emphasis on improving learning outcomes for pupils in English, and across other curriculum areas.

Drawing upon Kirklees’ textile heritage, teachers from Pentland Infant and Nursery School and nine other local primary schools will work in partnership with artist practitioners from WOVEN Festival and the University of Huddersfield to develop arts-based practice and a textile curriculum to enhance children’s learning, wellbeing and aspirations.

Milford Haven School Improvement Group aims to embed arts across the curriculum, providing both a context and a purpose for learning. Working with local partners, including Pembrokeshire Music Service and The Torch Theatre, teachers will develop arts skills and pedagogy to support them to meet the requirements of the new Welsh curriculum, which places emphasis on the role of the expressive arts, with confidence.

A collaboration between Grimm & Co and ten Astrea Trust primary schools in Rotherham, Doncaster and Sheffield, Chapter and Verse aims to support teachers to develop and embed multi-disciplinary arts approaches to teaching and learning, including immersive drama, music, poetry and storytelling. The project seeks to improve creative writing and Key Stage 2 writing outcomes, as well as children’s confidence, motivation and wellbeing.

Polish Migrants Organise for Change (POMOC) seek to build the first platform for Polish women living in the UK to organise for dignity, power, and justice. This grant supports POMOC to develop sessions and strategies for overcoming integration challenges faced by Polish women, expand outreach both offline and online, build referral networks and host regular meetings and training sessions.

Vishakha aims to empower communities, end violence against women and make systems accountable through rights-based intervention. This grant will support the second stage of a project to provide mental health support to young people who attend coaching institutes in Kota. This phase will focus on developing an appropriate outreach strategy and services, to build the capacity of the team and local community, and to improve engagement with city administration and local coaching institutes.

TAABAR works with children in need of care and protection. TAABAR aims to become a Child Resource Centre and to support training, documentation, and stakeholder management regarding child protection/​labour issues. This grant will support the organisation to strengthen work at the interstate level, follow up with Bihar government for repatriation and rehabilitation of child labour, and consolidate interdepartmental coordination for child protection within government.