Grants database

Amber Film & Photography Collective (Amber) was founded in 1969 with the aim of documenting North East England’s working class communities. Working with 12 primary schools in the North East, Amber will develop a programme of creative engagement in documentary photography and filmmaking. The project aims to increase children’s (and teachers’) digital media/​technology and creative skills, relevant to humanities and STEM areas of the curriculum; to enable pupils to explore digital storytelling; to address intergenerational relationships and community cohesion; and to provide continuing professional development for teachers.

Act On It is a social enterprise using drama to raise achievement amongst groups experiencing disadvantage. This grant will support a programme that aims in particular to improve social communication skills with four primary schools in Essex through drama and to embed the arts in the curriculum.

The museum wants to test two versions of Be Inspired, a creative writing programme for primary school children that draws on refugees’ stories and survivors’ testimony. The project educator will also conduct transition activities at the four secondary schools with links to the primary schools involved.

This grant will enable the Hepworth Wakefield to develop its youth programme, which targets 11 to 25 year-olds who are Not in Education, Employment, or Training or at risk of becoming so. The programme will respond to local youth priorities around mental health, building skills, independence and improving wellbeing. It will also further embed the gallery within local youth provision through strategic partnerships and a new Creative Learning Network for youth/​arts professionals.

This grant will support Create London to establish the White House, located within the Becontree Estate in Dagenham, as a permanent space for artist-led social practice in collaboration with local communities. More and better funding will expand both the number of residencies and activities programmed in the House; formalise local people’s role in governance and programming; and increase Create London’s evidence base of its long-term social impact on communities and individuals.

In the next phase of National Theatre Wales’ engagement model – TEAM will use their expertise to engage communities in Wrexham and Pembrokeshire through a bespoke programme of empowerment, leadership, creative activism and peer learning.

Museum of Homelessness works collaboratively with its members to explore the art, history and culture of homelessness in order to make a difference for homeless people today, and was originally developed through the support of PHF’s Ideas & Pioneers Fund. This grant enables the organisation to explore and test a delivery model where people with lived experience of homelessness are trained and supported to be creative facilitators; develop an evaluation framework; and collect evidence of the impact of this approach. This will inform its developing practice, organisational model and ability to influence the wider heritage sector.

This grant will support Hijinx Theatre to promote and broaden the reach of their online directory of learning disabled actors in the UK. This initiative aims to increase professional opportunities for performers, to inspire other learning disabled people to participate in the arts and to raise the profile of inclusivity on stage and on screen.

The Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisation (ACEVO) a network of leaders for civil society organisations, will use this funding to stabilise the business, meet their current commitment to their membership base and to explore how the organisation can be revitalised and made fit for the future. This will help ACEVO remain a vital and vibrant network supporting, developing, connecting and championing civil society leaders in their determination to make a difference.

This grant will support the coordination function for work on the EU Withdrawal Bill. This will enable advocacy groups to collaborate across a wide range of sectors including human rights, environment, consumer, workers’ rights, equality, democracy, transparency, food, farming, and trade to ensure that the interests of these communities can be fully heard as the UK prepares to leave the EU.

This project will encourage people to come together and inspire each other to design and lead programmes that improve lives in their local community. This funding will be used to prototype a new civic innovation model; testing, refining and building upon the work of existing centres of civic participation and innovation.

NACCOM seeks to prevent migrant destitution by increasing accommodation provision, and by fostering systemic change. Funding will support the organisation as it develops into a strategic national charity promoting an end to migrant destitution.