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Based in Leith, The Junction works with young people aged 12–21 at risk of engaging in harmful behaviour. This grant will fund the salary costs of the Director. This will enable The Junction to focus on further defining, evidencing and sharing their well-regarded model of ​‘nested service provision’ and move towards its replication. The organisation also wants to challenge current reactive systems of service provision and enable young people to be heard in these conversations.

The Centre for Youth Impact (CYI) is dedicated to improving the measuring of impact in the field of youth work. This grant will enable CYI to engage with a new wave of early adopters, provide training and diagnostic support as well as maintain the current cohort. CYI aims to contribute to high level research expertise, provide dedicated support to organisations working with young people and develop new income-generating projects.

Since 1999, The Refugee and Migrant Centre (RMC) has provided free immigration advice in the Black Country. RMC will address the widening gap in Birmingham in comprehensive advice and support for asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants. It aims to build a sustainable service, which offers professional and timely advice to a wide and inclusive client group. Initially priority will be given to immigration, destitution/​homelessness, health and welfare related issues. When the service is established, RMC aim to offer wider services including health, education and employment services.

Islington Law Centre hosts the Migrant Law Project (MLP), which promotes justice for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers using public law practice in the UK. This grant will build upon the MLP’s landmark court case (with Citizens UK and partners), which has allowed unaccompanied children/​young people from the Calais refugee camp to join relatives settled in the UK. This funding would build on these cases and seek to expand the model tested across Europe.

The Bush Theatre was set up in 1972 above a pub in Shepherd’s Bush as a home for new theatre. This grant will allow The Bush Theatre to build on its experience of working with young men not in education, employment or training and with older non-white members of the local community. It will invite two local community organisations, Only Connect West and Nubian Life, to become associate companies for 18 months.

Founded in 1996, Prison Arts Foundation is dedicated to providing access to the arts for all prisoners, ex-prisoners, young offenders and ex-young offenders in Northern Ireland. It will pilot a project to address the transition from custody into the community through an arts-mentoring scheme, which will support ex-offenders to re-integrate back into the community.

darts will test whether creative techniques, developed through its work in primary PRUs, can be applied in mainstream settings to benefit pupils at risk of exclusion. Two multi-disciplinary artists will deliver weekly sessions in three primary schools using sculpture, circus arts, music and visual arts. They will work towards creating end-of-year sharing events. Pupil outcomes may include increased engagement, self-esteem and aspiration, coping strategies and decreased likelihood of exclusion. The team will create a practical toolbox of creative approaches to support teacher CPD.

Through the Women and Family Centre Programme, The Robertson Trust aims to identify good practice in working with vulnerable women and girls. It is interested in informing and improving local and national policy and future service delivery. This grant will contribute to the development and evaluation of two Women Centres in Scotland (Fort William and Cumnock) that will meet the needs and aspirations of all women, girls and families. These centres will help the most vulnerable women, girls and their families to be safer, happier, healthier and more achieving.

David Cameron (formerly Director of Children’s Services in Stirling), Tim Brighouse (formerly Commissioner for London Schools), Graham Donaldson (formerly Chief Inspector of Schools in Scotland, who recently conducted a review of curriculum for the Welsh Government) and Tony Gallagher (Pro Vice-Chancellor Queens University, Belfast) will bring a group of teachers, school leaders and policy makers together from the four countries which make up the UK, to discuss the relative merits of the different approaches to school systems of the different governments. The four will publish a short book giving an account of the conference, its ideas and outcomes.

Since 1987, The Michael Sieff Foundation has been committed to protecting the welfare of children and young people: through bettering co-operation between professionals working with these groups. This grant will support the Foundation to continue its existing work on policy and practice concerning vulnerable children and young people, in particular currently on youth justice, and to develop new work streams.

Hull UK City of Culture 2017 is an independent company and charitable trust, which will deliver a year of cultural activities within the city as part of its UK City of Culture award. This grant will underpin public engagement throughout 2017, with a particular focus on the lead up to the year of culture and creating a lasting legacy. This will be achieved by commissioning world class performances, residencies and through schools and community engagement.

This project is part of a new initiative hosted by Global Dialogue, which aims to increase the strategic communications capacity in the migration and integration sector by establishing a Communications Hub. The Hub will strengthen the ability of civil society organisations to contribute effectively to key regional and national conversations relevant to migration and integration. It will also improve the use of existing public opinion research and frame organisational responses to discreet policy issues. It is hoped that this will increase the range of perspectives on migration and integration in media and public debate. This grant will fund a communication post, one of five to be embedded within existing migration organisations. It will also contribute towards the establishment of the central Communications Hub, which will provide the wider sector with support and media training.