Grants database

Together Stronger aims to give young people in the Rhonnda Cynon Taf area more opportunities to participate in and develop through high quality arts experiences, by consolidating and developing a partnership between the Wales Millennium Centre and charity Valleys Kids. Both organisations will share and learn from each other and facilitate a robust evaluation process, enabling them to extend the reach and impact.

National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance will lead a partnership of arts organisations and the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology to deliver a three-year programme of arts in criminal justice settings. Through a collective approach and long-term follow up, it aims analyse why and how arts interventions impact the lives of participants.

Following 25 years of successful arts engagement with those affected by homelessness, Cardboard Citizens seeks to develop its ​‘wraparound model’ to meet the increasing demand and complex needs of members. It will further enhance recruitment, induction and progression routes as well as improving evaluation of its long-term impact.

Three Minute Heroes links the writing of young people aged 11–25 about their mental health to singers/​musicians and performance poets, who then set these words to music and perform them. The Warren plans to evaluate the impact of this project to understand its effect on participants and explore the potential for social franchise.

Heads Together works with young people in East Leeds using creative opportunities and methods to improve their skills. Through this grant, it will pilot a Community Arts Academy where young artists can receive training, mentoring and take part in real-life participatory projects.

The Creative Foundation is an established arts charity that aims to transform Folkestone through creative activity. The organisation coordinates a number of learning initiatives with the aim of bringing about personal and social change for local people. This grant will support the foundation to establish an evaluation framework and to test new ways of reaching local communities.

This grant will help Ballet Cymru to evaluate the impact of the DUETS programme in addressing inequality in access to and participation in dance in South East Wales and to analyse its potential to become a national model.

Youth 4 Jobs sets up placement linked skilling centres for disabled young people and works with companies to create an inclusive workforce. This grant will help build the team’s capacity to deliver training and job placement services for disabled people.

Through this grant, Vishakha will set up a youth resource centre to deliver mental health support, recreational activities and counselling to young people attending coaching institutes in Kota. The project will also focus on working with city authorities, police and child welfare committees to raise awareness of the pressures faced by this group of young adults.

Vikash specialises in the community based rehabilitation of disabled children. This project aims to improve the quality of life for disabled children by increasing access to inclusive education and government entitlements and by creating a network of parent support groups. This final phase of this grant will focus on teacher training, strengthening parent groups and commissioning child friendly, assistive devices. Vikash aims to consolidate their model of rehabilitation and share learning with a view to scaling and replication.

Vidarbha Nature Conservation Society (VCNS) works to build community infrastructure and supports residents to access their rights, participate in governance and to secure livelihoods. In the first phase of this grant, VCNS helped ten villages to conserve and manage forest resources, to create management development plans and set up a series of livelihood initiatives. In the second phase of this grant, VCNS will work to strengthen local institutions, enhance the capacity of local leaders and to increase livelihood security.

Stree Mukti Sangathan (SMS) has worked with women engaged in waste picking in Mumbai to create sustainable models of waste management and to improve livelihoods and working conditions. During the first two phases of funding they also raised and addressed issues related to occupational hazards and established health camps for workers. The third phase of the project will work to ensure that ​‘waste pickers’ are recognised as an occupational group, to develop infrastructure to help individuals benefit from the sale of recyclables and to support an educational outreach programme aimed at enrolling children in school.