Grants database

Wac Arts is an arts and media charity based in North London. It provides a range of activities and professional training in the arts for young people facing various challenges. This grant will fund a contribution to a new Director of Finance and Commercial Operations salary and training for staff. It will enable Wac to focus on income generation and growing sustainability. It will also support dissemination of its learning and expertise in the use of interactive assistive technology.

A creative youth engagement agency, Beatfreeks offers peer-led programmes, activities and platforms which empower young people as leaders, creators, decision makers and mentors. Beatfreeks would like to grow the quality and reach of its programmes to support an additional 70 young leaders over the next two years. It will employ an Operations Manager, who will lead on programme development, review evaluation and impact measurement processes, and investigate a social licensing model.

Partnership for Young London is the regional youth policy unit for London. Having developed the ​‘Vision for Young Londoners’ agenda, the Partnership would like to increase its capacity to drive the identified priorities forward. It will support the coalition logistically, and invest in strategy, evaluation and wider dissemination. It hopes to increase the profile, impact and reach of both the vision and the network of coalition members.

Youth at Risk is a national charity working to create lasting transformation for young people and the adults and communities around them through a rigorous, strengths-based coaching model. This funding will support the delivery of community based programmes and training to professionals to transform individuals, organisations and systems.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) will carry out a community research programme aimed at gaining a deep understanding of the dynamics that drive local concerns about migration in these areas and which factors enable or block the process of integration for migrants. IPPR will work with local agencies to map key assets within the local community that can be mobilised by local policymakers, and will co-host a series of workshops with residents to develop initiatives that have local support.

COMPAS will work with five UK cities to achieve a step-change in their approach to migrant integration in their area. Drawing on learning from innovative approaches in US cities, the project will include assessment of the scope for subsequent roll-out nationwide and the development of an online toolkit for UK cities wishing to develop integration strategies of their own.

Voluntary Action Sheffield supports voluntary communities and organisations in Sheffield at all stages of development. VAS aims to test whether a city-led cohesion strategy and cross-sector partnership can influence policy across a range of statutory and non-statutory agencies, helping them to incorporate a welcoming approach to migration in Sheffield, as well as evaluate the impact of their approach.

Amy Win founded Cook Inspire Change to provide education, employability and enterprise programmes to young people who face challenging circumstances in the Greater Manchester area. Amy will produce e‑learning tools based on two programmes that she will develop and deliver: ​‘Ready Set Sell’ and the ​‘Food Enterprise Programme’. Ready Set Sell will prepare young people who are not in employment or those with previous criminal convictions or substance dependency for entry-level jobs in the food industry.

Lloyd Stacey is the driving force behind a venture that aims to transform a derelict 19th-century ironworks, including grade II listed buildings and woodlands, into an inclusive community heritage centre that supports health and social care. He brings 25 years’ experience spanning therapeutic education, farm management and architectural refurbishment to this social regeneration project, based around Riverside House estate in Stourbridge. The project will provide practical skills activities, based around the conservation and preservation of the estate, for adults with health and social care requirements, to improve their well-being, self-esteem, social inclusivity, physical health and vocational opportunities.

This idea springs from Christopher Hartworth’s personal experience of living with a chronic neurological condition, supported by his professional background in research and development. Christopher wants to create a shared resource where people living with a chronic condition can find solutions to everyday problems through an online peer to peer resource. With PHF funding team of service users will be engaged to create a prototype using one specific condition, multiple sclerosis, and explore the conditions necessary to create and launch a full operational Learning Bank.

Eamonn McCarron is a trained musician and special education supervisor based in Northern Ireland, who has a passion for maximising teacher and learner potential by establishing cultures of collaboration, shared educational values and mutual accountability. His idea, Project Sparks, is to develop a new and innovative learning model in the creative arts where people with learning disabilities teach percussion, singing and dance to young children and higher-need learners. With PHF funding, Eamonn will explore how the model could work and will generate key learning which he hopes will provide an evidence basis for future expansion.

Jacob Hill planned Offploy CIC from a prison cell in 2016. It is as an ethical recruitment agency which not only specialises in finding meaningful work for people with convictions but reinvests its profits to support employers to become ex-offender friendly and ex-offenders to become workplace ready. Jacob is receiving a development grant under the Ideas & Pioneers fund to undertake some research and development to consider other similar models of service provision and develop partnerships.