Grants database

Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services (CWVYS) is the independent representative body for the voluntary youth work sector in Wales. This grant will contribute to the salaries of the CEO and Regional Coordinators to enable CWVYS to maintain its support and advocacy role for the Welsh voluntary youth sector. CWVYS also aims to grow its membership and to work towards financial sustainability.

Leap empowers vulnerable young people to make changes in their lives by supporting them to gain a greater understanding of themselves and their relationship with conflict. Leap designs training programmes for organisations working with young people, researches issues facing young people today, and supports relevant policy and practice changes. Through this grant, Leap seeks to widen and deepen its impact, clarifying purpose and expanding reach. It also aims to grow its influence by providing professional training for those starting their careers and spread their approach through a digital training offer.

Strongly youth-led, MAC UK works to transform mental health service delivery for young people facing exclusion who have offended or are at risk of offending. Through this grant, MAC UKaims to support other agencies and organisations to adopt their evidence based approach, to build capacity and to influence the national narrative and policy context surrounding their work.

The project will pilot a creative music programme for young people experiencing disadvantage in Manchester. This will be delivered alongside a programme of practitioner training for the musical workforce, in partnership with Theatre in Prisons and Probation.

Bow Arts will expand their schools consortium model, which addresses the need for creative school improvement by combining needs-led school interventions and continuous professional development for teachers. This funding will help to create five new consortia of ten schools each over three years. Bow Arts will also commission support to refine their internal evaluation systems and deliver a funded programme for the artist educator workforce.

Social Finance partners with the government, the social sector and the financial community to find better ways of tackling social problems in the UK and beyond. The Impact Incubator builds collaborations to develop systems-changing models to entrenched social problems. The programme aims to develop five new models, support the implementation and scaling of up to eight models and to share lessons learned.

The Social Change Agency works to support people and organisations focused on social impact. This grant went towards the Losing Control conference which explored the practical realities of building a social movement fit for change.

Understanding Social Change will convene a new community of interest aimed at building knowledge and tools that can support campaign effectiveness; build greater legitimacy for campaigning and help develop the right competencies and cultures that can help campaigners thrive.

Bristol Refugee Rights will convene local sessions to explore thinking and discussion around the issues facing young people who are subject to immigration control with the aim of progressing thinking on this issue at the city level.

The Refugee and Migrant Centre assists refugees and migrants through crisis and disadvantage, by removing barriers to their integration and enabling them to become equal citizens. This grant will fund work to research the gaps and opportunities relating to migration and integration infrastructure in the West Midlands.

The Families Together Initiative aims to develop a collaborative and co-ordinated response to the increasingly restrictive policies and practice relating to refugee and migrant family reunion. It will increase provision of high quality advice and support and through advocacy and lobbying, work towards improving family reunion rules and procedures, ensuring they are fairer, less complex, safer and more affordable.

A Salford-based poet, Jenny Berry formed Your Own Words CIC to use poetry and creative writing to help others deal with issues such as conflict, lack of confidence, communication difficulties, empathy and respect. Her pilot project In Your Own Words will work with local young people leaving the care system to divert them away from a criminal lifestyle. Over a series of workshops, Jenny will use hip-hop and social media to highlight current social issues and help participants to realise their potential and inherent creative skills to communicate more effectively. She also aims to collect evidence of the social impact of this work.