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Vortex Jazz Foundation will explore how it can utilise its social, physical and artistic capital more effectively to best support disadvantaged local communities to access its artistic activities. The work will focus on three key questions: which communities and partners they can most effectively support, which methodologies can best engage these audiences and how the resources of Vortex’s artistic community can be most effectively used to deliver the programme.

The Turnaround Project will bring together prisoners, their families, local residents and business people, government agencies and voluntary organisations to engage in an innovative co-design of the most suitable model for addressing employability barriers for their local prison. The model will unlock community capital, reconnecting people and organisations to their local prison, and enable young people leaving prison to realise their potential.

Ian Glasscock is a social entrepreneur who saw potential to apply neuroplasticity technology (wireless bio-sensing technology) to help people with attention disorders improve their health and education, and has dedicated that past six years to proving the concept. PHF funding will enable Ian to test Biofeedback Training (‘attention training’) with young people at Thamesmead Isis Youth Offenders Institute, using computer games powered by brainwaves from a helmet or armband with the aim of increasing concentration and decreasing impulsivity, resulting in improved attitudes and behaviours.

Mobilising and empowering young people across the UK, the Undivided campaign will create an online platform to allow up to 1 million young people to define their priorities in the new political landscape. This platform will drive a mass youth mobilisation campaign to ensure their voice is heard in the EU negotiations and in future political discourse. This grant will support the core campaign team of young people and the initial planning and activity, including regional roll-out, website and software development.

Paul Bannister founded Let’s Kick That Dog to help men with depression, having been inspired by personal experiences. Paul is aiming to create a network of male peer support groups across the United Kingdom. During the 12-month grant, a feasibility study will be commissioned, including a calculation of the social value of the project and its potential for social franchising. The learning element of the support group sessions will be developed to produce a bank of resources to sit alongside the generic session structure.

Mobilising and empowering young people across the UK, the Undivided campaign will create an online platform to allow up to 1 million young people to define their priorities in the new political landscape. This platform will drive a mass youth mobilisation campaign to ensure their voice is heard in the EU negotiations and in future political discourse. This grant will support the core campaign team of young people and the initial planning and activity, including regional roll-out, website and mobilisation activities.

What Next? is a movement bringing together arts and cultural organisations from across the UK, to articulate, champion and strengthen the role of culture in our society. In addition to the core support of the What Next? movement, this grant will enable bursaries towards attendance and travel for a National Event in October 2016.

UK Youth is a UK wide network of youth development organisations empowering over 700,000 young people to take control of their own lives with the support, encouragement and opportunities they need to help them reach their full potential and grow into confident, capable adults who lead fulfilling lives. This funding supported UK Youth to engage directly with their UK wide network of members and clubs to encourage and support them to take part in the EU Referendum voter drive and to participate in the Bite the Ballot #TurnUp initiative. This included a range of voter engagement activities, the production of supportive resources and materials, and a Facebook live streamed debate watched by tens of thousands. During this campaign 498,302 under 25s, and 1.1 million under 34s, registered to vote, which is real testament towards the support Paul Hamlyn Foundation provided for this collaborative effort by UK Youth, Bite the Ballot and a number of other campaigns running alongside.

This grant will support an intense 12 month programme of activities designed to examine and support the development of best practice in relation to the research and evaluation of participatory arts, education and cultural practices, which aim to make a positive difference in society.

Outside In provides a platform for artists who see themselves as facing barriers to the art world due to health, disability, social circumstance or isolation. Since 2006, Outside In has been run successfully as a project within Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. This grant will contribute to the setting-up costs of Outside In becoming an independent organisation.

Our grant to The Funders’ Collaboration on Leadership underpins the coming together of 50 individuals from funding and umbrella bodies, social sector organisations and government with the aim of developing innovative and scalable solutions to the challenges currently facing the charitable and voluntary sector.

ArtWorks legacy grant for the development of a consistent website presence and the presentation of archive resources alongside current and new resources. This will include building a new website, alongside the curation and annotation of ArtWorks publications and archive materials. This grant will also support the development of digital materials for an ArtWorks Convention in April 2017.