Grants database

This grant to the Royal Opera House Bridge (ROHB) will expand its existing and successful Creative Writing through the Arts (CWtA) programme over a three year period. During this time, CwtA will reach 1350 children, 45 early career teachers and 55 school leaders in 45 schools, via collaborations with 18 arts practitioners in five art forms. 15 teachers will join the programme each September for an intensive year of support. Deeper formative and summative evaluation will allow ongoing refinement of the work and potentially deliver useful longitudinal evidence, as the progress in writing of a targeted group of children from each cohort will be tracked throughout the three years.

ODI has an unparalleled reputation for producing high quality research, which enables it to influence policy and practice through its high calibre networks and partnerships. Since 2015, ODI has been building a portfolio of research and policy work focused on migration. This funding would provide core support enabling migration to remain a central strategic focus within the organisation and allow it to respond flexibly to issues within the migration debate. With this grant ODI aims to: 

• Expand its communications reach
• Invest in in-depth and innovative communications
• Build on its networks and partnerships
• Maximise on its ability to convene and discuss migration issues/​solutions with un-usual stakeholders.

The Migration Museum Project aims to tell the story of migration in the UK and contribute to a better understanding, tolerance and a reasoned response to migration issues. This grant will enable the Migration Museum to employ a curator to develop its exhibitions and events outside of London, while building towards the establishment of a permanent museum.

Young Scot is the national youth information and citizenship agency for young people in Scotland aged 11–26. Our funding will strengthen its capacity around co-design in three localities, as it develops targeted and bespoke work with young people in those areas. This builds on Young Scot’s existing offer to young people including an information and advice website portal which received 2 million page views last year, and the Young Scot smart card, which is held by 620,000 young people. The charity aims to support young people to make informed decisions, play an active part in communities and be involved in decision making.

Sheffield Young Carers (SYC) works with 200 children and young people per year giving significant unpaid support to a family member. The grant will fund the time of two senior staff members to develop SYC’s training offer for statutory organisations. The training will equip them with skills and tools to identify, support and help young carers reach their full potential. This will enable SYC to focus its support on those young people with the greatest caring load.

MAP is an established youth organisation supporting young people, aged 11–25, to make a successful transition to adulthood, through advice, counselling and youth work. PHF support will enable the CEO and Development Manager to step away from operational delivery and focus on growing MAP’s role as an influencer. Key to this project is a plan to establish and grow a young people’s social movement to influence local decision making on issues that affect them, changing systems, strategies and cultures so they better support young people’s emotional wellbeing and social mobility.

The youth sector has identified a need for leadership development and greater collaboration within the sector. In response, Clore Social Leadership wishes to develop a leadership development programme that will equip emerging leaders with the necessary skills and network opportunities and create a pipeline of future leaders capable of providing the resilient leadership the youth sector will need in coming years.

This grant is a contribution to enable the floating of Musical Futures as an independent organisation.

One of two grants to underpin a programme aimed at widening access to Storysharing. Openstorytellers will research ways to provide effective and affordable intervention in schools.

This grant was a contribution to an evaluation round table.

PHF is again pleased to support the Helen Hamlyn Trust, an independent grant-making trust focusing on the initiation of medium and long-term projects linked to the shared interests of Lady Hamlyn and her late husband Lord Hamlyn. The Trust’s grant-making is centred on medicine, arts and culture, education and welfare, healthy ageing, international humanitarian affairs, heritage and conservation in India.

Nepal Earthquake Appeal