Grants database

Building on Philharmonia’s existing digital audience engagement work The Virtual Orchestra aims to increase and diversify audiences in its Leicester, Bedford, Canterbury and Basingstoke residencies through a tailored series of digital walk-through installations, virtual reality experiences, live performances and an audience development plan integrated into its offer. The impact of the programme will be tracked over the four years of the grant.

Based in Belfast, the Black Box is an alternative culture and entertainment venue, which runs creative activities for learning-disabled young adults in collaboration with local artists and arts organisations. This grant will pilot the creation of an accessible, public space in Belfast City Centre offering daily creative programmes for learning disabled individuals across all age groups.

Migration Exchange aims to inform, connect and strengthen work in support of a fair and welcoming immigration system in the United Kingdom. It supports an informal network of independent funders to share information, address knowledge gaps and create opportunities to align funding where this increases impact.

Through this grant the Migration Observatory aims to extend their model to the domain of migrant integration. This initiative will develop a suite of data resources tailored to the needs of policymakers and NGOs as they plan integration interventions and participate in debates about integration. By promoting accurate and nuanced information about integration, the project also seeks to foster a more balanced media and political debates in the UK.

Migrants Resource Centre aims to enable refugees, people who migrate and asylum seekers to better integrate into UK society. This grant will back a programme to encourage increased civic participation by these new arrivals to London. It will also support The Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens to develop its specialist legal and advocacy work to increase citizenship registration by undocumented young people.

Runnymede Trust is the UK’s leading race equality think tank, which seeks to inform public and policy debates on race equality, migration and integration. This core grant will contribute to the salaries of its director and policy and communications officers. Through this grant, Runnymede will foster collaboration between the migration and race equality sectors to inform and drive forward migration and integration debates. It also aims to improve framing and messaging for different audiences; develop and expand partnerships; and to work with an external evaluator to identify ways in which they can grow their impact.

Ashley Community Housing will explore and evaluate a Collective Impact approach, bringing together private sector employers, the Bristol Mayor’s Office, the local authority and local refugee community organisations to find solutions that facilitate refugees’ integration into the labour market.

Schools are potentially natural places for integration where the needs of migrant children and families can be identified and addressed and where equal participation in society can be facilitated. This project will engage schools and a wide range of stakeholders in education and in integration in order to identify good and promising practice towards successful integration of migrant children and their families, across all areas of learning and school life.

Award-winning writer and filmmaker Frances Weetman aims to develop The Germinal: a project that seeks to support young voters. Through this grant, she will explore ways of collecting and developing young people’s opinions about democracy, and the best ways of providing non-partisan information to and engaging with this underrepresented group. Funding will contribute to market research and to work to develop relationships with key stakeholders.

Amahra Spence’s background in youth work, creative industries, project management and corporate event management has helped shape her vision to develop an Artist Hotel in Birmingham. As a social enterprise designed and managed by artists, the hotel would feature an arts programme and project space and provide training for young people; an alternative income stream for emerging artists and young people, and a unique experience of Birmingham. Amahra has already made links to other Artist Hotels and with local organisations, including Birmingham City Council, to support the development of a feasibility study and project proposal.

Tros Gynnal is a charity working across Wales to promote and realise children and young people’s rights and enable them to have a voice. The grant will contribute to the salary of the CEO to support Tros Gynnal to broaden access to its services across Wales to reach more people. It will also support the CEO to develop her role as a spokesperson for the organisation and the advocacy sector.

London Youth supports a network of 322 diverse community youth organisations serving over 45,000 young people across the capital. Following on from a three year pilot, it will expand and evolve its communities of practice model whereby member organisations meet regularly to focus on learning and quality. It will test new approaches to share the learning and benefits from this approach across its network.