Grants database

Established in 2004, Citizens UK is the largest community organising network in the UK, with an expanding membership of 350 institutions. This grant will enable Citizens UK to expand their ​‘New Communities’ work campaigning on migrant, asylum and integration related issues. Citizens UK will target, engage and mobilise new demographics (including young migrants) in new geographic locations. It will build alliances with institutions which have not engaged on migration issues before.

Central England Law Centre (CELC) is the UK’s largest Law Centre, with 51 staff and 30 volunteers providing legal expertise to 8,000 people per year across ten areas of social welfare law. CELC and partners will test the viability of a sustainable model of pro bono legal advice. KIND UK will support young people in regularising their immigration statuses aiding them to lead more stable lives, where they can better access help and support. The pro bono service will maximise the expertise and resources of commercial firms taking some pressure off law centres to focus on more complex cases.

Established in 2007, Writing East Midlands runs creative writing projects to further links between writers and local communities. Working in partnership with refugee support groups, this grant will build on its existing writers in residence programme ​‘Write Here!’ The project will use writer led story-telling and creative writing activities to enable refugees to tell their stories, articulate their identities and provide a platform for their creative self-expression. Delivered through ten two-hourly creative writing sessions over six months, new work and public performances will be shared between refugees and participants from host communities. Sessions will be supported by a shadow writer with appropriate language skills.

Fabrica is an arts organisation, based in a former church building in Brighton, which commissions visual art installations. In collaboration with Project Art Works, Fabrica will use this grant to research the role of people with severe intellectual disabilities as creative participants and gallery audiences. They will commission an immersive and interactive exhibition that will resonate with audiences with a range of intellectual capabilities. Through the use of this exhibition, they will also investigate the challenges and opportunities of co-production, co-commissioning and cross-sector collaboration.

Autograph ABP is a charity that works internationally in photography and film, exploring ideas of cultural identity, race, representation and human rights. This grant will allow Autograph to explore and test ideas for increasing access opportunities for young refugees at the National Gallery. It aims to develop a potentially scalable methodology to improve access and participation practice that can be shared across the cultural sector.

The University of Sunderland is one of the leading providers of higher education in the UK. This grant will enable the university to offer a specialist Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for artists, students and others working in participatory settings. This work will build on legacy of the PHF funded ArtWorks initiative.

Tyneside Cinema is one of the UK’s leading film and digital-media centres. It is based in a remarkable heritage building in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Building on the success of the PHF-funded ​‘Young Tyneside’ project, Tyneside Cinema will deliver a three-year Access and Participation programme for 8,500 children and young people in North East England. It will bring new audiences in film and filmmaking, address social, economic and educational need and develop important new models of engagement to the wider film sector.

The PRS Foundation is the UK’s leading charitable funder of new music across all genres. It has a particular interest in the development of young artists and audiences. This grant will help develop new elements to the New Music Biennial 2017 initiative taking place in Hull. These elements include composer residencies and developing a tailor-made listening scheme to offer new experiences and skills to local communities and schools.

Intoart is a visual arts charity that works with adults with learning disabilities. This grant will provide core investment and capacity building to help create ​‘Design by Intoart.’ This is a two-pronged programme to create a dedicated design studio run inclusively by people with learning disabilities and run a leadership programme by artists with learning disabilities, which will support wider dissemination across the sector.

Fevered Sleep are an arts organisation that focus on challenging social relationships through performance, installations and other art mediums. It will create, in collaboration with its partners and participants, three participatory arts projects to be presented at 20 venues across England over four years. Fevered Sleep will also extend the approaches developed through Future Play and apply them to work for adult as well as child audiences. It will focus on gathering evidence in order to understand the impact on participants who engage in making, presenting and promoting their work.

Artichoke Trust is a creative company that specialises in putting on extraordinary public spectacles. This grant will underpin the participation and engagement strand of work for a large scale public event across the river Thames marking the 350^th anniversary of the Great Fire of London. It will encourage disadvantaged young people from five London boroughs to take an active part in designing and building an ephemeral art installation as part of this commemoration.

Odd Arts aims to transform the lives of vulnerable and excluded groups through the use of creative arts. Odd Arts will work in partnership with Rathbone, a UK wide youth sector organisation, to develop a training programme for young ​‘Ambassadors’. It will use Forum Theatre and other drama-based activities in peer education to engage students at Rathbone’s alternative education centres with learning.