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The Voices Foundation is a national charity which uses the power of singing to improve the lives of children and young people in the UK. Through this initiative The Voices Foundation and David Ross Education Trust, a multi-academy trust, will empower teachers and harness the power of singing to bring about sustainable change for whole schools where a significant number of pupils experience disadvantage. The programme aims to improve outcomes in literacy, language and communication, cognitive development and behaviour, by developing a whole-school singing culture.

This initiative aims to develop teachers’ skills and confidence to embed learning through visual arts across the curriculum. This approach will enrich and enhance teaching and give children opportunities to explore creativity. Schools will be matched with artist practitioners who will work in depth with teachers over a sustained period to develop practical skills and to improve confidence. In the longer term, the partnership seeks to develop a scalable model for visual arts continuing professional development, to benefit teachers across their Teaching School Alliance.

Schools from the Windmill Cluster and Brixton Learning Collaborative, led by Sudbourne Primary, will investigate the impact of using opera and visual arts to develop Growth Mindsets amongst their pupils. The approach will explore how arts-based learning can encourage higher-order questioning, risk-taking and problem-solving skills to raise attainment for pupils experiencing disadvantage. Working with Pegasus Opera and artist Liz Atkin, the teachers will experiment and take risks alongside their pupils. This approach will embed a cycle of analysis, experimentation, reflection, refinement and application.

This programme will develop a continuing professional development programme in arts-based learning for teachers and leaders from schools in the Active Learning Multi-Academy Trust, aiming to reduce barriers to learning for pupils experiencing disadvantage Artist practitioners from DanceEast and other arts organisations in the East of England will provide peer support, mentoring and coaching for teachers, to enhance approaches to planning, pedagogy and evaluation. Sidegate Primary School will establish a network of co-learners including pupils, teachers, artist practitioners and school leaders, creating a sustainable legacy of long-term inquiry across the Active Learning Trust.

Valuing Voices targets continuing professional development and learning (CPDL) for primary arts teachers and school leaders. Ksent will work in partnership with Canterbury Christ Church University and arts practitioners from Confidance, Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company and Turner Contemporary. Through exploring dance, drama and visual arts, teachers and arts practitioners will collaborate, co-learn and co-construct the curriculum, to benefit schools, arts practitioners and pupils with profound and multiple disabilities. Valuing Voices aims to empower primary practitioners as arts leaders in their schools, to be confident, innovative and creative. The initiative seeks to build a sustainable model of CPDL and to impact the wider network of schools within the Trust.

Southwark Teaching School Alliance and Shakespeare’s Globe are collaborating to train teachers and leaders in eight Southwark primary schools to incorporate drama techniques into their classroom practice. The project will see Year 1 and Year 3 teachers from each school take part in professional development led by Globe practitioners. Actors will work alongside teachers in their classrooms, using dramatic storytelling techniques to support the children’s development in speaking, reading and writing. The second year of the project will see the same teachers embed their learning into their school’s curriculum, leading their own professional development sessions for staff and creating a unit of work to incorporate the new approaches.

ShareAction is a charity focusing on achieving social and environmental change through investments. This grant will support core activities to contribute towards sustainable growth and to build an investment system that serves communities and protects the environment.

Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) is the National Development Body for the Scottish museums sector. As part of the Our Museum legacy, MGS will develop and test a framework which museums can use to assess and improve services to achieve excellence and to enable meaningful community involvement.

This grant will contribute to research on the role of grandparents with responsibility for the care of their grandchildren, and will support the dissemination of findings.

This grant will fund the research and development of a project delivered in collaboration with the Jo Cox Foundation which supports communities to come together.

Epic aims to inspire children and young people to achieve their potential and make a positive difference to the communities in which they work. Through this grant, Epic will deliver a programme combining elements of peer education, social action and interpersonal relations in order to support the recovery, reparation and resilience building required following the Grenfell Tower fire.

Comic Relief and Paul Hamlyn Foundation are working in partnership to deliver the Tech for Good funding programme in 2018. The programme will back 12 digital projects each with grants of up to £47,000 over 9 months, alongside access to dedicated technical expertise and an intensive support programme.