Grants database

Luxi Ltd is an organisation that aims to enrich people’s lives through the arts. It have a keen interest in using performance and projects to further educational and arts participation. Luxi will use storytelling and drama-based activities to support young people to understand and engage with the moral, ethical and legal implications of their behaviour when playing online games.

Hackney Music Development Trust specialises in creating, developing and managing arts projects in schools. It will trial a new model of working with schools using performance arts. They will assist staff at Queen Eleanor Primary Academy to develop arts based teaching and learning activities.

For 45 years, Beaford Arts have supported art in rural communities in North Devon. Working alongside the Devon Wildlife Trust and pupils from eight rural primary schools in the South West of England, this grant will help create a walking trail and map about the local area. This work will be supported by artists, a cartographer and older people from the pupil’s local communities. The project will explore how local arts organisations can support rural schools to deliver arts-based learning.

Kids’ Own Publishing is dedicated to supporting children’s individual creative expression through publishing and the arts. Virtually There aims to increase children’s problem-solving skills and teachers’ confidence through enquiry-based learning with an artist in virtual residence. The project will take place in a range of schools in Northern Ireland using standard classroom technology. Participants will reflect on their experiences in an online journal that combines children’s, artists’ and teachers’ perspectives to give the wider community a window into the project.

Hampshire Cultural Trust runs 23 arts and museum venues across the county. Horizon 20:20 aims to create a cultural change in Hampshire’s PRUs, where arts-based learning, including trips to cultural destinations, becomes central to their work. The aim is to improve the pupils’ self-esteem and motivation to learn as well as teachers’ professional confidence. This will be achieved through a four year programmes of artists’ residencies, teacher training and Arts Awards for pupils.

Set up in 1982, Big Brum provides high-quality theatre-in-education programmes for children and young people of all ages and abilities. By improving its approach to evaluation and promotion of its work, Big Brum plans to strengthen the case for theatre in education in response to the current challenging educational context. It will also deliver and evaluate its ​‘End of Reason’ programme, which focuses on World War One, to 90–100 schools and Pupil Referral Units.

A New Direction is London’s leader in cultural education; connecting children, young people and education with the best of arts and culture. My Creative School offers a new model for relationships between arts organisations and schools. Facilitated and supported by A New Direction and Arts Council Bridge Organisation, this project will see schools choose to work with arts organisations based on how those organisations respond to priority areas identified in School Improvement Plans (SIPs). The focus of activity will be using the arts to teach non-arts subjects in primary schools across three outer London boroughs and various locations within Kent.

AJP Dreams’ tagline is ​“If I can, you can, we can!” Alexander Warren is a young man who has overcome obstacles to become a conference speaker, businessman and entrepreneur: using his experiences to inspire and motivate others to improve care and support for people with learning disabilities. Alexander plans to work with Edinburgh Development Group, an academic from Edinburgh University and drama experts to research, develop, test and pilot an empathy training programme for support workers, which will help them to listen to and empathise with their clients’ dreams, no matter how flamboyant. This grant will pay Alexander, his support team and these experts for 18 months to create a training product that can be delivered more widely and become commercially sustainable.

Street Teams works to remove children from situations in which they vulnerable to sexual exploitation and trafficking. This grant will increase the hours of the currently part-time Head of Service post for two years. This will allow Street Teams to focus on strengthening the fundraising strategy and developing a number of key project initiatives. The learning from these will inform the wider child sexual exploitation prevention agenda locally and potentially nationally.

Startup is an award-winning charity, which aims to reduce re-offending by helping ex-offenders and those at risk of offending into self-employment. For the past 5 years, Startup has focused solely on supporting women ​‘at risk’ of offending. Funding will enable them to scale up their peer mentoring training and expand their work with young people aged between 16 and 24. This funding will allow them to take a women-centred approach to enable young women to explore routes to self-employment.

Cypher App, formerly Silent Secret, is an application which allows young people between the ages of 11 and 19 to share their thoughts, comments and news anonymously. This grant will enable Cypher App to employ an in-house App Developer to build and moderate new functions for their mental health support app. These include an in-app support pathway for young people, app-counselling, app-mentoring, a more extensive advice and information section, enhanced data collection and analysis and ultimately attracting more young people to use the app.

Since its beginning eight years ago as a PHF-funded museum project, Reclaim has supported 750 young people aged between 12–15 to develop and implement manifestos for social change in their communities in Greater Manchester. The original programme graduates are now in their 20s and becoming the next generation of leaders for the organisation. Reclaim is seeking to develop an alumni network and support young people to continue to campaign for social change on the issues affecting them.