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The Family and Childcare Trust (FCT) is the leading national charity for policy, research and advocacy on childcare and family issues. FCT will adapt their successful Parent Champions programme to explore whether this model can support children and parents from new migrant communities to integrate. Partnering with The Parent House, a community based organisation in Islington, they will recruit and train a minimum of 10 Integration Champions who will provide peer-to-peer information, advice and support to 400 migrant and refugee families. An external evaluation will be commissioned to capture learning on the integration pathways of each of the parents involved over an 18 month period.

People United is a creative laboratory, exploring the role of arts in growing kindness and social change. This grant will provide core support to enable People United to build on their extensive knowledge around arts participation and test new ways of working. They will expand their impact nationally and to continue to evaluate and share what they learn about how the arts can create the conditions for kindness and social change.

ACTA is a community theatre, which engages people from marginalised communities from across Bristol in the creation and performance of their own original theatre. This grant will support ACTA’s core programme and Foundation initiative. This includes delivering participatory theatre activities with new community groups, training and mentoring a new generation of community theatre facilitators and contributing to sector development through CPD sessions and quarterly seminars.

‘We’re Here Because We’re Here’ was a public art event created by Turner-prize winning artist Jeremy Deller and the National Theatre’s Artistic Director Rufus Norris. This event commemorated the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916. Some 1400 young men aged 16–30 took part in this work and for many it was their first experience of participating in the arts. Commissioned by 14–18 NOW and produced in partnership with 8 major theatres, 56 regional theatres and many community groups, this project sought not only to create an extraordinary piece of participatory work, but also to look at new models of sector partnership and learning.

YDance aims to increase engagement with learning, attainment and wellbeing of over 2000 of Scotland’s poorest children. It will work in 12 primary schools in four areas of deprivation over a period of four years. Two professional dance workers will work in close partnership with teachers to plan and deliver dance activities as a means to teach a range of academic subjects. YDance aims to ensure that learning through dance is sustained by involving the whole school in the process, training and supporting teachers to gain skills and confidence to use dance practice independently.

The Forge is an Arts Council Portfolio organisation, which aims to develop participatory arts projects with children. Co-created by artists and teachers, this two year project will work with one Year 6 class bridging the crucial period as they transition into Year 7. A photographer and writer will explore narrative choices with the pupils and encourage them to transform their photographic artistry into creative written pieces. The work will take place in a deprived socio-economic area north of Newcastle.

Bristol Music Trust (BMT) runs Bristol’s famous Colston Hall and promotes music education throughout the city. BMT also manages the music education hub Bristol Plays Music (BPM), which is delivering the National Plan for Music Education throughout Bristol’s schools. This grant will investigate how, in a post-local education authority environment, schools can work together to commission a coherent, quality local cultural curriculum. Via their partnership with UWE (University of the West of England), they will explore how initial teacher education can engage with school partners and cultural specialists in order to embed cultural education into teacher training. BPM will work with Bristol Old Vic Theatre, BCEP and a cluster of four E‑ACT primary schools in Bristol. The project will work directly with 12 teachers, 4 head teachers and 360 children.

Mainstreaming Education for Child laborers in Ramgarh Coal Mines, Jharkhand

Natural Resource based Sustainable Livelihoods

Educational and Economic Rehabilitation of Children of Bastar

Empowerment of Women Waste Picker in Buldhana and Warda, Maharashtra

Assimilation of Dam Displaced Communities with their Host Communities, South Odisha