Grants database

Anisa Haghdadi wants to develop a creative approach to analysing and sharing data which can engage and inspire people to find better solutions to social issues. She hopes using the arts to make information accessible will help the general public, as well as policy makers, be better informed, make better decisions and become involved in finding answers to problems that affect them. The approach brings together artists, researchers and technologists in a version of a ​‘think tank’ that is action-oriented.

Based in Liverpool, FACT is a media arts centre offering a unique programme of exhibitions, film and participant-led art projects. This three-year programme will develop FACT’s work within prisons, which aims to widen and deepen cultural engagement and change attitudes within the criminal justice system. Led by artists, FACT will produce a series of collaborative projects with participants, share the resulting artworks within prisons and in FACT’s public programmes. Funding will also support the organisation to evaluate and understand the wider impact of the programme.

The Mix is the UK’s leading digital charity providing holistic multi-channel support for young people’s well-being using digital and mobile channels. This grant will support The Mix to explore and develop an understanding of the issues, opinions and awareness of children and young people around the effects of Brexit on EU citizens living the UK.

Peace First is dedicated to helping young people around the world to become powerful peacemakers. This grant will support the pilot of a nationwide Peace First Challenge engaging UK youth in creating transformative social action projects.

This grant will continue to support the coordination function for work on the EU Withdrawal Bill. This will support advocacy groups to collaborate across a wide range of sectors including human rights, environment, consumer, workers’ rights, equality, democracy, transparency, food, farming and trade to ensure that the interests of these communities can be fully heard as the UK prepares to leave the EU.

This grant will provide core support towards an emerging platform that facilitates networking and campaigning related to workers’ rights. The project will focus on building a network of workers, creating organising tools and resources and developing a bank of evidence on the experiences of workers in different sectors.

The Helen Hamlyn Trust is an independent grant-making trust focusing on the initiation of medium and long-term projects linked to the shared interests of Lady Hamlyn and her late husband Lord Hamlyn. The Trust’s core ethos is to develop innovative projects, which aim to effect lasting change, improve quality of life and create opportunity for the benefit of the public. The Trust’s grant-making is in the fields of medicine, arts and culture, education and welfare, healthy ageing, international humanitarian affairs and heritage and conservation in India.

Charity Tax Group will commission an economic research project to inform the debate around charity taxation and reliefs in the context of Brexit. It is important that the sector can demonstrate rigorous economic analysis outlining the value of existing VAT reliefs and the potential benefit of new or expanded reliefs.

This grant will contribute to the feasibility phase of the Cambridgeshire Culture Card. This programme intends to provide children and young people with a mechanism to access cultural opportunities, track their participation and monitor outcomes.

Creative Health Next Steps describes the programme of activity for the APPG on Arts, Health and Wellbeing during 2018. The APPG aims to catalyse, support, monitor and evaluate progress on the ten recommendations set out in the Creative Health report, which was published in 2017 and has a particular emphasis on influencing the health sector.

Think tank, Runnymede Trust, seeks to inform public and policy debates on race equality, migration and integration. This grant will fund a brief policy-focused review on integration, supporting PHF’s wider immigration and integration work.

Just for Kids Law delivers holistic, client-led support to children and young people through innovative, community-based legal representation, advocacy and opportunities programme. The organisation drives systemic change through strategic litigation and policy reform. This grant supported the creation of three new films that demonstrate how the law can be used as a tool for social justice. The series reflects on lessons from a legal case concerning young people whose immigration status prevented access to student loans.