Grants database

We Are Routes provides free language and confidence-building workshops for refugee and asylum seeking women, using theatre, play and improvisation. This grant will support research and testing of course content and trials with London-based community groups.

Open Up Music’s mission is to make orchestras accessible to young disabled people. Through this grant, OpenUp Music will deliver the National Open Youth Orchestra, a new inclusive national ensemble. In partnership with leading arts organisations and conservatoires in London, Bristol and the West Midlands, OpenUp Music will launch regional training centres providing a programme of musical development and personal development, rehearsal and performance opportunities for disabled young people and their peers.

Through this grant, the National Youth Orchestra will deliver a participation programme which empowers young people to co-produce and promote NYO concerts in schools and at regional arts venues. Over the next four years, NYO will work to further embed peer-engagement and youth-led decision making across its programmes.

Household is a collective that develops and shares thought-provoking art projects with people in the public realm. It is committed to long-term, placed-based interventions, working with residents, stakeholders and arts partners to build engagement in contemporary art, strengthen communities and influence regeneration efforts. This grant will support Household’s long term intervention in Belfast’s historical neighbourhood of Sailortown through a contribution to core costs, programme delivery and evaluation.

The National Saturday Club gives young people aged 13–16 the opportunity to study every Saturday morning, at their local college or university, for free. This grant will support the development of three new clubs, with a focus on increased evaluation of effective approaches to club development and improved recruitment methods to reach those not currently engaged in the arts.

Battersea Arts Centre will bring together a new network of interdisciplinary cultural organisations, individuals and social sector bodies to develop, promote and share models of outstanding co-created artistic practice – work developed in equal partnerships with communities. Through commissions, partnerships and sharing, the network will support the cultural sector to rethink traditional models of artistic creation and participation to make it relevant and accessible to more people.

DaDaFest develops and showcases disability and d/​Deaf arts through a multi-artform artistic programme. This programme aims to address systemic barriers to engagement in the arts faced by young disabled people. This will embed inclusive practice in the core programmes of major regional venues via long-term, formal partnerships, supported by academic research into the conditions for successful organisational development in this area.

Studio 3 Arts are the lead partner for Creative Barking and Dagenham, a Creative People and Places funded programme. Creative Barking and Dagenham catalyses creative opportunities within the borough, enabling local people to create, commission and curate activities in their local area. Building on its Cultural Connectors network of volunteers, Creative Barking and Dagenham will explore and test what conditions are needed to create a strong and sustainable pipeline of locally-led arts engagement activity for adults in the area.

Science Gallery London connects art, science and health to drive innovation. Through this grant, Science Gallery London will explore how best to support young people into creative decision-making roles and co-produce participation programmes in the context of their newly opened gallery.

The Renewal Trust is a community development and regeneration organisation providing targeted and universal support in the St Ann’s and Sneinton areas of Nottingham. Through this grant it will explore its role as a ​‘connector’ for arts organisations to work with local people by co-delivering arts projects, commissions and residences in Nottingham’s Creative Quarter.

This programme will test a joined-up approach to delivering community engagement by the four arts partners involved in Yorkshire Sculpture International (Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds Art Gallery, The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park). The initiative will explore different strategies to engaging migrant communities, working with local support services. It aims to create sustainable relationships between these groups and the partners’ core programmes.

International artist residency Cove Park will test a community outreach programme featuring off-site creative taster sessions delivered in and with community partner venues alongside an extended offer onsite to provide progression opportunities for young people experiencing disadvantage and existing participants.