Grants database

Generation Change is a partnership of 18 UK youth social action providers that support young people to create social change in their community. This grant will support the launch of the Impact Accelerator, a pathway for delivery organisations to join Generation Change by completing a rigorous evaluation and improvement scheme. This scheme will help practitioners to adopt a shared impact framework to drive learning about their outcomes.

Ditch the Label supports young people in the UK, USA and Mexico who have been affected by bullying and prejudice. The grant will allow the CEO to focus on growing the organisation’s influence on policy and practice. It will also support the development of its internal systems.

Circle Community supports young people in London who are unemployed through a tailored five week work experience programme. This grant will support the salary of a new Director of Operations and Programmes, allowing the CEO to focus on strategic planning.

Whitstable Biennale is a festival of contemporary visual art based on the Kent coast with an extensive year-round programme. Working in collaboration with two secondary schools in North Kent, Whitstable Biennale will explore a cross-curricular, multi-disciplinary approach to learning, encompassing ethics, art, dance and sound.

MakeBelieve Arts is a theatre and education charity, offering programmes to develop the creative, communication and literacy skills of children. This project will saturate one school with a myriad of arts-based, storytelling activities to explore the impact on communication, language, comprehension and writing, particularly among pupils experiencing disadvantage.

Ilkley Literature Festival is the north of England’s largest literary festival and runs a year-round programme with community groups, families and young people. This project will explore how combining creative-writing techniques, visual arts and digital technology in four secondary schools around Leeds and Bradford can deepen and enhance engagement in and expression through creative writing for newly-arrived young people who are new to the English language.

Working in partnership with 5x5x5=Creativity and Bath Festivals, The Egg Theatre will test whether School Without Walls’ enquiry-based model of experiential and creative learning can be used to achieve specific school improvement objectives and to narrow the attainment gap for pupils experiencing disadvantage.

Diverse Voices will develop its Theatre in Education approach to enable pupils (aged 9–11) and teachers in ten primary schools to engage with issues regarding online safety and harmful sexual behaviour. The organisation aims to strengthen evidence for the impact of this approach on addressing serious social issues.

Berwick Visual Arts offers a programme of exhibitions, artist residencies and projects. Working with two schools in the North Northumberland Creative Schools Cluster, this programme will explore how a programme of visual-arts focused continuing professional development and an artist-led residency can facilitate teachers’ leadership and commitment to prioritising cultural education. The programme aims to raise attainment in literacy, language and communication, particularly for pupils experiencing disadvantage.

PROCESSIONS led a UK-wide programme of banner-making workshops that formed part of the largest participatory textile project ever organised in the UK. The project helped to mark historic rallies led by the suffragettes. It culminated with a mass-participation artwork taking place across Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London to mark 100 years of women having the right to vote in the UK.

Four year funding will support Slung Low to establish a Cultural Community College at the HUB in Holbeck, Leeds. The college will offer a permanent regular programme of free cultural participation made up of a variety of workshops and courses in a wide range of cultural activities, led by artists and curated by local participants.

Based in Northern Ireland, Replay Theatre specialises in producing work for young audiences. This grant will support them to further develop and evaluate their programme of inclusive performance for young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.