Grants database

The Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent, charitable foundation, committed to bringing about socially just change. This grant was a contribution to the secretariat for the Funders for Race Equality to build capacity and change practice.

This grant will support the think tank to publish an essay collection on future immigration and integration policy and to organise a series of events and roundtables targeting key practitioners and policy makers.

The Cripplegate Foundation work to transform the lives of Islington’s most disadvantaged residents, by developing effective partnerships with local and national organisations to bring more resources into the area.

Islington Giving works closely with local people and organisations to change lives for the better. They give grants to local voluntary organisations to provide support and activities to residents, shining a light on the issues of poverty and inequality and harnessing resources to address them.

NHYC provides a support network for 16–21 year olds experiencing homelessness. They provide hot food, showers, laundry, help in finding accommodation, training and employment. They also offer counselling and a range of workshops in life skills to help young people at a pivotal moment.

CYP provide a safe, youth-led space for young people in the Caledonian Road and Barnsbury area – an area which is amongst the 20% most deprived areas nationally. The organisation runs a range of events and activities to help young people experiencing disadvantage to learn, develop and build a positive future.

Women at the Well supports women whose lives are affected by, or at risk of being affected by prostitution. Established in 2007, the organisation has supported communities in Camden, Islington and Haringey for the last ten years. Services are provided to people who have multiple and complex needs including drug and alcohol abuse, mental health difficulties, experience of homelessness and trafficking. A core programme at a women-only building in Kings Cross building helps to meet basic needs including food, laundry, as well as advocacy and support services.

Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums is a regional museum, art gallery and archives service. Through this project, the museum will partner with ten schools from Newcastle and North and South Tyneside; with local arts organisations, the Arbeia Roman Fort, Laing Art Gallery and Segedunum Roman Fort; and with Newcastle University on research and evaluation. Drawing on the resources of museum collections and through three art forms (visual arts, craft and creative writing), the project aims to support teachers’ in developing pupils’ communication and enquiry skills.

The Forge, a participatory arts commissioning and producing agency and Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation, will partner with seven schools, two of which are special educational needs and disabilities settings. This project will develop teachers’ knowledge, skills and experience in using photography to support children’s progress in creative writing.

Real Ideas Organisation will work in partnership with eight schools from the Learning Academies Trust in Plymouth, a city which is rapidly becoming a digital arts hub. This project will focus on developing and empowering teachers to explore and use digital art forms in their practice, to support the development of children’s writing across the curriculum.

Prime Theatre, a professional children and young people’s theatre company working in Swindon and Wiltshire, and an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation, will work in partnership with seven schools from the White Horse Federation and Swindon Teaching School. Building on an existing relationship with Drove Primary, the lead school in the project, theatre practitioners will collaborate with teachers to explore how drama and performance poetry can support the acquisition and understanding of language and empower teachers to develop and embed these arts-based approaches in their practice. The project aims to support children’s progress in speaking and listening, reading and writing.

Ten rural schools led by Parc Eglos School will partner with MADE, specialists in creative music and dance work in education, youth, community and health care settings, with involvement from the Minack Theatre. The project aims to use dance, drama and music, with a focus on story, narrative and play, to develop teachers’ knowledge, skills and experience in supporting the development of speech, language and communication amongst children in the schools’ Nursery and Reception classes.

Morda Church of England Primary, located in rural Shropshire near the Welsh border, will come together with seven other schools to enable teachers to use drama, inquiry for learning and expert framing to create imaginary contexts for cross-curricular learning. In particular, the project will explore the Mantle of the Expert pedagogy developed by Dorothy Heathcote.