Grants database

This programme aims to promote intercultural understanding and to strengthen integration by deepening connections between parents from families who have recently migrated and their local communities. Parents will be supported to volunteer in local Children’s Centres and primary schools, gaining crucial skills for employment and community action as the organisations gain additional capacity to support outreach activities, learning and governance processes that represent and reflect the community.

West London Zone (WLZ) helps children and young people grow up safe, happy and healthy. They support local organisations to work well together so that young people experiencing disadvantage get the support they need. This grant will support the development of data systems and their use by partner organisations, allowing WLZ to monitor progress and evaluate impact.

The Professional Association of Lecturers in Youth and Community Work is a member organisation that represents the interests of academics, educators and researchers in the sector. This grant will support the delivery of a series of seminars to profile current responses involving youth and community work and to encourage collaboration between universities and practice agencies across 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.

Peace First is dedicated to helping young people around the world to become powerful peacemakers. This grant will support work to scope the Peace First Challenge in the UK, engaging young people in creating transformative social action projects.

Based in Islington, Abianda works with gang-affected young women and the professionals who support them. This grant will fund a Training and Participation Officer to grow the organisation’s income generating training arm. This would allow the Director to focus on scaling delivery and developing strategic partnerships.

This grant will help the Royal Shakespeare Company to expand a national partnership programme with schools and regional theatres across England. Local partnerships will develop communities of research and practice to create programmes that respond to local needs and to make children’s first encounters with Shakespeare vivid and accessible.

Spiltmilk Dance is a professional dance company delivering projects in schools and community settings, and creating and touring performance work nationally. This project will explore a dance and movement-based approach to teaching maths to children aged 4–7 in three Rotherham Primary Schools.

Manchester Camerata will explore and test how song writing can be used to support engagement across the curriculum and key stages in four inner-city primary schools. The organisation will also explore how best to support schools to commission arts interventions and continuing professional development.

Artsplay Highland will test the impact of music and arts-based approaches to improving attainment in literacy (in English and Gaelic) for children in Primary One classes, in areas experiencing economic disadvantage in the Highlands.

The Nucleo Project provides free, inclusive music making opportunities to children and young people aged 2–18 in North Kensington. This grant will support the organisation to run an additional orchestra involving children and young people living in the area affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.

Colville Primary School and Fresh Arts have run an arts project for children affected by the Grenfell Tower fire, since September 2017. This grant will cover costs to continue delivery of the project for a further year.