Grants database

ABOB provides a unique rites-of-passage mentoring programme for young men aged 18–25 who have experience of the criminal justice system. Through this grant ABOB aims to set-up eight new franchises and develop volunteer communities to work with over 840 young men over the next two years.

Writing on the Wall is a Liverpool-based community charity that promotes and celebrates writing in all its forms through a month-long annual festival and year-round projects. This grant will support the organisation to develop the Super Heroes creative writing project with eight primary schools, working with professional writers and artists to facilitate workshops for pupils in Years 3–6 and to deliver continuing professional development for teachers.

Live Music Now is a UK-wide initiative that delivers interactive music programmes in care homes and hospitals, and a range of community and healthcare settings. Through this grant, the organisation will extend and develop a Musicians in Residence programme in special schools across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, supporting musicians and school staff to work together to devise and facilitate high quality music sessions for pupils aged 5 to 16 years.

Little Angel Theatre plans to explore and test an arts/​puppetry based approach to helping schools deliver their strategic aims. Artist practitioners will work collaboratively with teachers in four Islington schools, using puppetry, visual arts, drama and performance to bring whole-school improvement goals alive for pupils and families.

Groundswell Arts delivers projects using music, art, drama, movement and film making to engage and support children, parents, carers and educators across early years, school and community settings. Through this grant, the organisation will pilot a creative training programme for teachers in three education settings in Haringey. This initiative aims to equip staff with the skills and knowledge to effectively integrate arts-based learning into daily lessons through the use of animation.

Cambridge Junction is a live music and arts venue. This grant will support six, term-long theatre and filmmaking projects in secondary education settings, which support young people with complex needs to make their own films.

Shubbak is Europe’s largest festival of contemporary Arab culture. This programme aims to develop and embed a community engagement programme, supporting Arab communities to take part as audience members and decision-makers.

Through this grant, Sherman Theatre aims to increase the social impact of the Sherman 5 audience development programme, created with support from a Paul Hamlyn Club Award. Over the next four years, the theatre will develop an enhanced community volunteer programme, supported by greater partnership working and use of Time Credits.

Open Eye Gallery is a not-for-profit contemporary photography gallery in Liverpool. Through this grant, Open Eye will further develop a programme of community-based participation and embed this in the gallery’s core offer, building understanding of co-authored and socially engaged photography practice.

Collective Encounters is an arts organisation focusing on theatre for social change through collaborative practice. This grant will fund a four-year programme to engage adults and young people living in areas affected by economic deprivation and to support artist development and sharing of best practice.

Through this grant the New Vic will evaluate how and whether a programme of work with older people, including a theatre company and annual arts festival, is making a difference to this group’s ongoing engagement with the arts.

CALL facilitates artist-led regeneration to embed arts and cultural development in Llandudno, North Wales. Through this grant, CALL will work with local arts and housing sector partners, residents and a socially engaged artist to co-produce artwork for the Tre Cwm Celf Estate’s boundary wall.