Grants database

The Positive Youth Foundation aims to improve the life chances of young people facing challenging circumstances. Their offer includes targeted support services for refugees, asylum seekers and newly arrived young people; alternative education; mentoring; and group activities focused on health, wellbeing, and positive development. This grant will support PYF in partnership with local organisations to deliver a programme of cultural activities for young people in parks and open spaces in Coventry.

Shake! uplifts the voices of young people from marginalised communities to deliver artistic and creative activism that drives social change. Shake! Is led by what young people need, using anti-oppression, trauma-informed, healing, creative approaches to tackle systemic injustice and influencing the practice of white dominated institutions, especially youth organisations. Funding will increase the capacity of the team to continue to share the model, learning and practice.

North East Young Dads and Lads (NEYDL) works with young fathers and expectant dads (aged 25 and under) experiencing disadvantage in the North East. Funding will provide NEYDL’s Chief Executive more capacity to focus on income generation to support their expansion across the North East and service development over the next three years. It will also support NEYDL to develop their Regional Young Dads Council and hire a part-time Inclusion Project Worker to improve their reach, impact and influence with minoritised and marginalised young fathers.

My Life My Say (MLMS) is a youth-led, non-partisan charity on a mission to create an age of political engagement that will deliver greater social inclusion and equality allowing the space for dialogue across generations and communities. This grant will enable MLMS to expand the scope and reach of their operations, ensuring that young people from the most hard to reach communities gain access to the democratic process and drive social change.

ConnectFutures (CF) work with young people, communities and professionals to increase knowledge, resilience and confidence in preventing extremism and serious violence, challenging hate, and promoting social justice. This grant will allow CF to strengthen their operating model by implementing a Youth Advisory Board in partnership with the West Midlands Virtual Schools Children in Care Foundation. Funding will also support recruitment of two new roles, trained to support the Youth Advisory Board, and expert guidance to develop their evaluation methods to capture connections between individual and systemic impact.

The Young Women’s Movement is Scotland’s national organisation for young women’s feminist leadership, which creates transformational spaces that enable young women to lead personal, community and institutional change. This grant will provide core funding alongside an annual package of support towards organisational development and growth plans.

Integrate UK are based in Bristol and invest in the skills, passions and talents of young people as leaders who can thrive in a society that recognises the value of gender and racial equality and cross-cultural cohesion. This grant will provide core funding alongside an annual package of support towards organisational development and growth plans.

The Advocacy Academy is a youth organising movement based in Brixton, working to create a more fair, equal and just society where young people with lived experience of injustice have the power to make lasting change for themselves and their communities. They focus on building the power of young people, using radical youth work and community organising alongside social justice training. This grant will provide core funding alongside an annual package of support towards organisational development and growth plans.

Castle Hill School, a SEND specialist setting, will lead a group of SEND specialist and mainstream primary schools based in and around Huddersfield. They will partner with The Colour Foundry, working with teachers and school leaders to develop learning through traditional and digital visual arts- and music-based practices. They will aim to embed inclusion and celebration of individuality at the heart of teaching practice.

Building on Lewisham’s Borough of Culture year, four special and two mainstream schools will work in partnership with Trinity Laban and Peoplescape Theatre. Artists from both disciplines will collaborate with teachers to develop a unified learning journey for everyone, with the goal to improve communication skills of young people facing high levels of disadvantage. Communication skills are the key to unlocking young peoples’ ability to thrive as active, engaged and connected members of their communities, and combining dance and drama will ensure the activities are fully inclusive for children with a wide range of complex needs.

A partnership between MAKE, Knit Shop and Dundee Creative Learning Network, this is an ambitious new career-long professional learning project, which explores the value and potential of teaching craft in primary school with professional textile makers, working across different disciplines. The programme is designed to embed craft approaches to numeracy development across six to eight primary schools in Dundee and aims to develop teachers’ skills, confidence and ambition in teaching craft, whilst unlocking learning across the curriculum.

The Story Exchange Project aims to inspire process-driven creative collaborations which develop the necessary skills, knowledge and confidence of teachers to provide space for improving Emotional Literacy and Pupil Voice in the classroom. Teachers from six Oxfordshire schools will work with artists from The Story Works to explore this area.