Grants database

This grant will support the organisation to set up a job platform where only refugees can apply for jobs and only employers that are looking to hire refugees can participate.

Sara Greavu and Andrea Franke’s practices combine education, activism and arts-based social practice. This grant will help them to research, develop and pilot a voluntary learning programme for young people that harnesses the knowledge and expertise of local activists and thinkers.

PurpleCoat Productions is a theatre company that aims to empower working-class communities in Merseyside by making theatre with and for local groups and creating more opportunities for working class talent. Through this grant PurpleCoat will investigate the creation of a new theatre space in the community that welcomes and brings people together, supports and champions local talent.

This grant will support an immersive children’s theatre company to pilot a children’s emotional health and wellbeing programme, in partnership with Belfast Family Support Hub. Through the show, participants will learn therapeutic techniques, which help them to safely process and identify emotions.

This grant will provide support to continue to research and develop plans for a hotel in Birmingham, designed and managed by artists as a social enterprise and creative community hub.

Laurie Oliva has extensive experience in youth work and research. She is the Head of Engagement at the National Institute for Health Research and before that led the youth participation team at YoungMinds. This grant will help her to develop a web based platform, offering free accommodation and career coaching for young people from low income backgrounds.

Kieran Rose is a blogger and campaigner who advocates for greater understanding of the rights and needs of autistic people. Through this grant, Kieran will co-develop a neurodiversity think tank with the North East Autism Society to review and feedback on local service provision and to engage in ongoing public debates through social media, events and other channels.

Jadala will build a collaborative ​‘wiki’ encyclopaedia of opinion called Parlia, which allows for multiple collaborators to contribute and work on its content. This is built on the premise that there is a finite number of arguments on any given subject. Parlia seeks to map them all, assisted by Artificial Intelligence, thereby building a freely accessible, online library of all arguments. This grant will enable Jadala to undertake the research and ideation phase of the project.

Christine Bacon has been director at Ice and Fire, a theatre company that explores human rights stories through performance, for nine years. Through this grant, she will develop a weekly podcast series consisting of candid, informal conversations with a broad variety of individuals who have immigrated to the UK about what brought them here and why they stayed.

Flinton Chalk is a practising artist, musician, researcher and provider of psychoacoustic sound therapy. Through this grant, he will develop a mental health assessment and recovery therapeutic programme, which combines song writing and recorded music therapy with the latest advances in sound therapy.

Fat Macy’s is a catering social enterprise that works with people experiencing homelessness living in temporary accommodation. This grant will support a feasibility study exploring innovative solutions to the challenges around temporary accommodation.

The Intelligence Collective is an experience combining playable theatre, technology, and neuroscience to build young people’s capacity for thinking together, improving emotional resilience and ability to disagree civilly. This grant will support the co-development of an interactive digital story based on a popular young adult novel with a group of young people to improve emotional resilience and capacity for thinking together.