Grants database

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Follow-on funding: FBB Schools: Growing our Impact
Football Beyond Borders
FBB is an education charity which uses football to support young people experiencing disadvantage. Follow-on funding will support FBB to scale the programme nationally to reach 1,120 young people across 70 schools and develop the learning hubs to include Coach Educator accreditation. Over the next two years, the organisation will work with an independent evaluator to develop robust evidence of programme impact.
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Core support
YouthNet – T/A The Mix
The Mix provides holistic support for young people’s wellbeing using digital and mobile channels. This grant will help The Mix to extend reach, produce more youth-led content and create pathways of support from digital to local in-person services for young people.
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Peace First Challenge UK Pilot 2019
Peace First
Peace First is dedicated to helping young people around the world to become powerful peacemakers. This grant will back a UK pilot programme supporting young people experiencing disadvantage to lead social change through a digital platform that provides tools, resources, mentoring and small grants.
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Collaborative digital project – ‘My Best Life’
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC)
NPC works with charities, philanthropists, funders and social enterprises to maximise their social impact. This grant will support NPC to collectively develop digital solutions and useful tools to support young people and the youth sector to reach their potential.
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LGBT youth leadership development and inclusion work across the South-East
Allsorts Youth Project
Allsorts Youth Project supports children and young people under 26 who are lesbian, gay bisexual or transgender (LGBT) or unsure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity (LGBTU). The organisation aims to extend training, consultancy and partnership work with Brighton and Hove local authority, and work in East and West Sussex schools, colleges and community organisations to ensure the provision of LGBT youth inclusive and safe services.
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More and Better: The Story of Water
Thames Festival Trust (TFT)
Fund: Arts-based Learning Fund
Amount: £209,000
Location: East of England, Multi-region, North West, West Midlands, UK
Date: 2019
Through this grant, Thames Festival Trust will develop an arts-based learning project across primary schools in six regions based on local and international water and river themes that addresses Key Stage 2 art and geography curriculum objectives.
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More and Better: Adventures in Learning: Impact at Scale & Deeper School Partnerships
KIT Theatre
Fund: Arts-based Learning Fund
Amount: £300,000
Location: London, Multi-region, North West, South East, West Midlands, UK
Date: 2019
KIT Theatre creates and delivers interactive story-based experiences for young people through immersive theatre to support and enhance formal learning. Through this grant, KIT will establish a permanent company base and develop relationships with schools and partner theatre venues across five regions.
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Explore and Test: Building public support for human rights
Equality and Diversity Forum (EDF)
EDF brings together people and organisations to join up research, policy and communications to shift public opinion and policy in positive ways. EDF will run a values-led attitudinal change campaign to explore how to increase public support for a human rights based approach to migration.
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Maths, Movement and Mastery
St Mary’s Church of England Primary School
This TDF partnership development grant will support St Mary’s and seven other primary schools from Tandridge Teaching Alliance to develop a partnership with two experienced dance artists. Together, they will begin to scope out and craft in-depth strategies to support children to develop mastery in maths through dance.
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Explore and Test: Achieving whole-school influence
First Story
Fund: Arts-based Learning Fund
Amount: £244,000
Location: East Midlands, Multi-region, South West, Yorkshire & Humber, UK
Date: 2019
First Story will develop a writer-in-residence model to improve creative writing and achieve whole-school change. Partnering with eight secondary schools, the programme seeks to reach and influence the whole school community through teacher continuing professional development and learning, a new student ambassador initiative and parental engagement.
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Explore and Test: SparkPlus: children and teachers as active audiences and involved learners
The Spark Children’s Arts Festival
Spark Arts for Children runs performing and visual arts education projects to support children to discover, enjoy and celebrate the arts. Through this grant, Spark Arts will explore and test a programme of experiential learning and teaching strategies built around an annual children’s festival. The initiative aims to develop teacher’s skills and confidence in arts-based learning and to give children high quality theatre experiences to enhance their learning and development.
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Explore and Test: Caribbean Carnival: A Creative & Diverse Curriculum
emccan – East Midlands Caribbean Carnival Arts Network
A partnership of four regional Caribbean carnivals, East Midlands Caribbean Carnival Arts Network (emccan) creates opportunities to share cultural practice and advocates for carnival in education. Through this programme, emccan will bring carnival arts practice to pupils in rural schools to support the development of students’ soft skills, wellbeing and educational progress.