Grants database

Mental Snapp is a space for people to tell their story and to gain confidence. Users record short video diaries for themselves to see only, they rate their mood and talk about their feelings, creating a user’s version of events allowing for self-reflection. This follow-on Ideas & Pioneers grant will support a nine-month social media campaign, aiming to generate 1000 active users and a broader engaged online community. By the end of this period, Mental Snapp will release a version 1.2.0 to maximise the impact on wellbeing and confidence for their users.

Local Welcome facilitates events centred around the cooking and eating of meals, which bring together small groups comprising both local residents and people who are at risk of being socially excluded. This grant enables Local Welcome to explore how it can become more sustainable by enabling groups to cook unsold supermarket food.

Through One Thing Well, Jemima Garthwaite will apply a tech start-up approach to reviving the UK’s underused woodlands, reducing demand for imported timber that carries negative social and environmental impacts, and stimulating jobs within the woodland economy. This grant supports research including stakeholder engagement to inform the development of One Thing Well as an online digital marketplace to connect woodland owners with potential local customers.

Motivated by the need to improve outcomes for young people experiencing disadvantage, Bounceback Education – Online Tutoring Platform will give students eligible for pupil premium funding access to free private tuition, initially in Maths, English and Sciences. Through this grant Duncan will test the online tutoring platform with three partner secondary schools in Greater Manchester.

CVVID aims to explore how video CVs can be used as a career pathway tool, to support disadvantaged students to move from education into employment. The programme will use the development of video CVs and immersive Virtual Reality experiences to enable students to improve their personal confidence, presentation and interview skills. Ten schools/​colleges will participate in a user-design and testing process, with the support of Local Education Authorities, other local education organisations and SMEs/​local businesses.

Comet Chukura is the creator of Glow, a fashion brand that creates reflective and ethically made knitwear aimed at the cycling and running market. Glow currently provides employment opportunities for two East London-based women makers experiencing disadvantage. This grant will support Glow to undertake research and prototyping to develop a summer range to generate year-round income and increase employment opportunities.

Catching Words is a creative literacy project which addresses children’s long-term underachivement in Keystages 1 and 2. The project brings professional poets, writers, storytellers and Story Builders from Discover Story Centre together with children and teachers, for weekly sessions aimed at developing language, vocabulary, oracy and creativity. The programme supports teachers to build experience, skills and confidence, and to co-deliver sessions.

20 Stories High is a theatre company and charity based in the Toxteth area of Liverpool. It aims to empower and improve aspirations and skills for young people, targeting the most marginalised groups. Through a four year programme of outreach, training, collaboration and evaluation, 20 Stories High will deepen its understanding of how access to and participation in the arts can impact positively on young people’s mental health.

Through this project, Liverpool Biennial will work with local schoolchildren to produce artworks for an exhibition at Bluecoat, five bench-like sculptures at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, a family programme and digital curriculum resource. Workshops, family days and talks aim to engage over 1500 young people. Hundreds of thousands of people will experience the public artworks and exhibition, inspiring families, young people and schools to engage with contemporary visual art in the long-term.

Level Up aims to build a community of feminists who can work together to end sexism in the UK. Through this grant, Level Up will offer support, training and resources for women who have experienced sexual harassment and violence.

Institute for Voluntary Action is an independent charity that works closely with people and organisations striving for social change. The UK Evaluation Roundtable (ERT) programme aims to advance evaluation and learning strategy, practice and use across UK trusts and foundations. This grant will contribute to the costs of two cycles of the UK ERT, funding research, convening, workshops, and the development of materials.

The Impact Hub Birmingham aims to build a fairer, more equal and just city. This grant will support the organisation to develop a proposal to move to a new site to scale activity and to work on their business plan.