Grants database

Hackney Music Development Trust (HMDT Music) will support six primary schools in Lancashire to integrate the arts across the curriculum through musical theatre. The programme aims to increase teachers’ skills and confidence to use the arts in the classroom by delivering a structured programme of continuing professional development and by building an online resource bank.

SeaQuest will develop and test a marine-themed, arts-based teaching programme for Keystage 2 and 3 pupils. Delivered on the beach and in the classroom, the initiative will also explore the impact on children’s creativity, attainment, well-being and confidence.

This grant will increase the organisation’s capacity to deliver an expanded offer of live music events in libraries across the UK. The programme will include creative workshops and bespoke progression opportunities for local young people.

This grant will help LIFT Festival to test different approaches to overcoming identified barriers to engagement, and to better evaluate and understand the impact of its LIFT Tottenham programme.

Barrowland Ballet is a contemporary dance theatre company based in Glasgow. Working with participants in three Additional Support Needs schools and eight venues, the organisation will explore ways that sound and movement can provide authentic artistic participatory experiences for children and young people with complex support needs. The process will inform the narrative and structure of upcoming productions.

The Architecture Centre works across the South West to engage people in design, architecture and place-making. Through this grant, the centre will test a model of long-term partnership working in early years settings in areas of multiple deprivation. The project aims to engage young audiences with place-based learning activities, including sensory walks and visits to local cultural venues.

Louise Tickle aims to use her background and experience as an investigative journalist to address the lack of transparency around the workings of family courts. These have a key role in decisions around taking children into care and current law severely restricts discussion of their work to protect the children involved. However, this can also render families voiceless and powerless when decisions are made poorly or unlawfully. She will work with interested parties such as legal experts, local authorities and families, to find ways to promote families’ right to freedom of expression while protecting the rights of children.

Through this grant, Samarth Foundation will work with communities in 15 villages to develop a drought resilience system.

Music for Change aims to improve the speech, language and communication skills of children aged 3 to 5, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, with English as an additional language and/​or speech and language delay. The programme will run in clusters of nurseries and offer training for early years practitioners in Hastings, Luton, Essex and London Borough of Harrow.

The Gloucester Roundhouse Project (GRP) will see the City of Gloucester and the Roundhouse (RH) develop a long-term relationship to create extraordinary partnerships between arts organisations, artists and young people. RH will use their expertise and track record in nurturing the next generation of young talent to help Gloucester transform the city’s cultural offering alongside the ongoing and much-needed regeneration of the city centre. The project will build local capacity and advocacy with the longer-term vision of a new, iconic Gloucester Roundhouse opening as the centre piece of the city’s ambition to be UK City of Culture 2025.

This grant will support the Social Change Agency to build an affordable online platform to share campaigning, fundraising and advocacy methods with change makers at grassroots levels.

For people who need care at home, CareShare would offer a trusted, accessible care and support matching and care management platform. Caregivers and receivers get full choice and autonomy over their care, including the opportunity to be in both roles: care users can share their skills, support others and be fairly rewarded for this. Unlike other platforms, it is owned by the givers and users of care. Front-line care workers, care users and their families will be involved in designing and developing the online platform.