Grants database

Working in Doncaster, this project will explore the complex barriers which prevent people from accessing Cast’s arts programme and will test ways to overcome these obstacles.

Fallen Angels Dance Theatre (FADT) supports people in recovery from addiction to transform their lives and to share recovery stories with the wider public through dance, performance and creativity. Through this grant, FADT will explore a new approach to enable people with complex needs to participate in the entire process of creating and publicly performing a dance theatre piece and will test how to increase interaction with audiences.

Red Ladder Theatre Company (RL) based in Leeds, is developing a Northern Social Circuit to bring small-scale theatre to 15 areas with limited opportunities for cultural engagement. RL seek to address the under-representation of people from low socio economic backgrounds both in audiences and in cultural programming in these communities. The organisation will empower individuals through a skills development scheme as a part of their programme of work.

Project Ability is a visual arts charity working with disabled children, and learning disabled adults and those with mental health problems, at its central Glasgow studio. Through a programme of artist-led activities and exhibitions, it aims to develop participants’ creative skills, to improve their wellbeing and confidence and to support their development as artists – bringing their work to wider audiences. Project Ability seeks to pilot and evaluate satellite versions of its studio in different communities, to improve the evidence base for its work and to understand how best to extend its model.

Supporting live performance in small-scale venues across Scotland’s highlands and islands, the Touring Network will bring together promoters, artists and communities to explore current practices within rural touring and develop a scalable model for touring that is relevant to and has an authentic connection with rural audiences.

This grant will go towards supporting a small cohort of PHF grantees to develop thinking on organising and service provision.

Core Cities UK will undertake an enquiry into current and potential future approaches to migration across ten urban areas, through roundtables, interviews and analysing available data.

Select Committee (HASC) to involve the public in the debate on immigration. This project aims to ensure that a cross-section of the public contribute to HASC’s inquiry into the future direction of immigration policy through a variety of means and specifically seeks to engage young people.

Ros Ereira spent 15 years working in broadcast television as a researcher, producer and director. Her initiative, Solidarity with Refugees, will connect grassroots refugee organisations with mainstream cultural organisations working in television, radio, theatre, sport and the arts. In doing so, it is hoped that more authentic refugee and migrant stories will be told and their experiences normalised via mainstream media and cultural institutions.

New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) will work with partners to map young people’s journeys through multiple products and services, and their experience of navigating their own personal issues, challenges and situations. Their goal is to use these maps to identify opportunities for digital technology to improve the outcomes young people achieve.

Voices From Care is a charity which represents the views, rights and experiences of young people who are or have been looked after in Wales. This grant contributes to the salary of the CEO, who will focus on organisational strategy and programme development. It also supports Voices from Care to strengthen core processes, develop its youth-led training and to continue its drive for policy and practice to be better informed by young people and their experience.

Based in Glasgow, Space Unlimited is a social enterprise and charity with a mission to build young people’s confidence and capacity to influence change. This grant contributes to the two Joint Managing Partner salaries, an Office Manager and improvements to digital resources. It will enable Space Unlimited to diversify its income and deepen its impact for young people and communities by sustaining and spreading its approach. Space Unlimited also seeks to influence more decision makers to genuinely shape services alongside young people.