Grants database

Oily Cart create and tour original, high quality, multi-sensory theatre for children and young people with complex disabilities, including profound learning disabilities, across the UK. This two-year project will enable the company to work with a range of expert partners to research, pilot and evaluate performance approaches to better engage with deafblind children.

An Talla Solias gallery will test a new curatorial framework designed to better reach local audiences including families, people with lower incomes and the elderly. It will use this experience to embed a culture of reflective practice and develop a new engagement strategy tailored to its local context.

Pop Up want to change the writing culture in their partner schools by motivating children to write for enjoyment. This grant will support them to deepen their relationships with schools in England and establish two new clusters in Wales. They aim to deliver better continuing professional development for teachers, improve their online resources, share learning sector-wide and raise awareness of the importance of writing for pleasure at policy level.

Akademi wants to deliver a programme in two schools for children with Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC), exploring how dance can be more successfully delivered for ASC pupils and how the movement vocabulary of South Asian Dance, such as hand gestures and facial expressions, might particularly support pupils’ communication and physical needs.

Funding will support ArtWorks Cymru partnership to develop the next phase of activity. Part of the funding will resource the time of a partnership manager, the Welsh contribution to the Artworks Alliance Convention, and business planning for the next phase of ArtWorks Cymru.

This funding will support ArtWorks North East to continue to offer the important networking opportunities that artists have benefited from and appreciated, including weekly radio programme/​podcast, monthly talks and meet ups, seed funding/​training bursaries for participatory artists, as well as support for social media platforms and a newsletter.

Collaborate CIC works across local government, civil society and the private sector to help public services tackle complex social problems. This funding will support research to look at how funders can work together and improve their responses to citizen disenfranchisement in Europe and is part of a collaboration with other funders, including the Barrow Cadbury Trust.

This programme, which is a collaboration between the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and the Education Endowment Foundation, will evaluate the impact of cultural learning on young people’s academic and non-cognitive development. The aim is to develop an evidence base that will help to ensure that young people, particularly from the most disadvantaged backgrounds, have the opportunity through cultural learning to develop the knowledge, skills and cultural capital to lead fulfilled lives.

The Centre for Youth Impact is a community of organisations committed to working together to progress thinking and practice around impact measurement in youth work and services for young people. A grant will support a core team to progress a collective impact initiative for organisations working with young people. The aim is to bring a group of organisations together to explore how they may pursue transformative change for young people.

Considered one of the leading mentoring organisations in Scotland, Move On particularly helps people affected by homelessness and vulnerable young people to grow in confidence; secure and sustain accommodation; build positive social networks; develop employability skills and access and sustain jobs, training and education. Move On’s growth plans include diversifying income and developing their offer to include establishing a Centre of Excellency for Mentoring. They aim to increase the number of young people they work with, develop new approaches to meet their needs and increase organisational resilience.

The Mix is the UK’s leading digital charity providing holistic multi-channel support for young people’s well-being using digital and mobile channels. As experts in digital engagement and provision for young people, they aim to be the ​‘go to’ platform for all young people, reaching 3 million by 2018/19. This funding will support their growth plans.

Fixers have a clear impact framework and ambition for change: to position their approach at the heart of society; to encourage people and organisations to value voice such that it brings people together for social good, encourages people to share their stories and helps to establish an architecture for people to listen to them, so that conversations start that lay the foundations for a new approach to social change.