Grants database

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Explore and Test: Using an arts-rich curriculum to improve functions of the brain
Creativity, Culture and Education
Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) is an international foundation, which is committed to promoting children’s creativity, both inside and outside the classroom. Working in partnership with CEDETI (a research institute based in Chile), CCE will develop an arts-rich primary curriculum in consultation with teachers. This work is part of a longer project exploring whether such a curriculum can help children from poorer backgrounds improve certain functions of the brain: enabling them to close the gap with more affluent peers.
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Explore and Test: Leap Primary Schools Dance Programme
Attik Dance Ltd
Benjamin Dunks, the Artistic Director of Attik Dance (AD), is an honorary fellow of Exeter Medical School. He has developed Leap; a whole class approach to teaching dance in primary schools. This approach is based on current academic research linking motor skills to the development of working memory. AD wants to test if the Leap programme can increase teachers’ confidence in teaching dance and improve children’s working memory.
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Research and concept development for a new intervention with un-convicted men who have a sexual attraction to children.
Circles South West
Research and development to test concept for a service, staffed by professionals and volunteers and linked to NHS therapeutic services, offering support/guidance to un-convicted men who acknowledge a sexual attraction to children, in order to prevent them acting on this attraction. The service will be the first of its kind in the UK; to be tested locally with the aim of national roll-out and based on the success of Germany’s Prevention Project Dunkelfeld. The proposed model will offer a confidential telephone/email helpline, access to professional assessment, an 8–10 week group programme and, where necessary, access to on-going therapeutic support.
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Artrium Outreach
Hartlepool Art Studio Limited
The Artrium provides arts and crafts activities and support for people with mental health problems or learning disabilities. It is a safe ‘haven’ for many of its members. This project will train and support long-term members to facilitate arts workshops in the wider community, challenging them to develop new skills and move out of their comfort zone. PHF funding will pay for artists’ fees, materials, and management and admin costs.
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Support to develop a prototype of Mental Snapp, a mobile platform – documenting mental health service users’ recovery journeys on film
Mental Snapp
Hannah Chamberlain and Tex Dunstan founded Mental Snapp with the goal of using their experience in film, digital media and as mental health service users and carers to allow people to contribute to their own health records. Mental Snapp is a therapeutic service that allows service users to document their experience of mental health issues and recovery journeys on film. This funding is to prototype and test a mobile platform that lets users upload video to a secure digital area. The videos can be kept private, shared with closed groups, or with health professionals to facilitate recovery.
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Support towards the development of the Museum of Homelessness
Museum of Homelessness
Fund: Ideas and Pioneers Fund
Amount: £22,760
Location: London, Multi-region, North East, North West, UK
Date: 2016
Jessica Turtle will be using PHF funding to help set up the Museum of Homelessness. Jessica’s vision is to create a museum where those who have experienced homelessness are able to curate the untold story of homelessness in the UK. Funding will pay for Jessica’s time as project manager, as well as an initial creative learning programme to support homeless people to become museum makers.
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Development support for the Friends of the Flyover as they work towards creating community spaces and activities around Liverpool’s Churchill Way Flyover.
Friends of the Flyover
Friends of the Flyover wants to turn Liverpool’s Churchill Way flyover into a community hub and tourist attraction; including an elevated urban park, community centre and cultural and education space. Dreamed up by a group of friends including an architect, artist and designer, the proposal is winning support from communities and regeneration bodies. Using permission from the Council to close the flyover to traffic on a weekly basis, the team will use PHF funding towards staff and professional resources. They intend to formalise their legal status, firm up agreements on the land use and develop a cultural and community programme with partners in the city and beyond.
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Support to develop a prototype of Canute, an affordable display to increase access to Braille
Bristol Braille Technology
Fund: Ideas and Pioneers Fund
Amount: £30,000
Location: Multi-region, South West, West Midlands, UK
Date: 2016
Ed Rogers founded Bristol Braille Technology CIC in 2011 with the goal of helping to reverse the decline in blind literacy. Braille is very important for a blind person’s literacy, education, employment and independence. There is a huge difference between listening to an audio book and reflecting on a written text at one’s own pace. The Canute project has been on-going since 2012, making digital Braille radically more affordable. It will be the world’s first full page Braille ebook reader, which will also allow access to musical notation and mathematical formulae.
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Brilliant alternative education for children who struggle in school
Woodpecker Court Youth Activities
Woodpecker Court aims to offer brilliant alternative education through day provision and residentials. Young people who have exhausted their options in mainstream schooling will work with nature, small animals and the outdoors to help them re-engage with learning. It builds on previous work with Canterbury Academy as part of PHF’s Learning Away special initiative. WPCA is run by Dominic Meehan, a youth worker with 11 years’ experience working in schools. PHF funding will pay for Dominic’s salary for the first year as he builds up WPCA’s delivery.
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Support to develop Garage Sale Trail in the UK, a project bringing communities together and encouraging the re-use of unwanted goods.
Garage Sale Trail Foundation (UK)
Fund: Ideas and Pioneers Fund
Amount: £20,000
Location: East Midlands, East of England, London, Multi-region, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, UK
Date: 2016
Garage Sale Trail create a platform to bring together communities to re-use unwanted goods, fundraise and make new connections through holding hundreds of garage sales on one day. The idea originated in Australia and is being piloted in the UK by the Garage Sale Trail Foundation UK, led by Andrew Dick who has over a decade’s experience in the non profit sector. PHF funding will supporting the on-going development of the project, building on a successful pilot in 2015.
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Sleep School for Tired Teens
The Children’s Sleep Charity
The Children’s Sleep Charity plans to work with schools in Yorkshire and Humberside to provide information and support for teenagers who are sleep deprived. By increasing good quality sleep, the project aims to improve young people’s health and wellbeing. Support will be delivered by trained sleep practitioners as guided by young people’s steering groups in each school. This will include support for parents and carers. PHF funding will pay for staff cost and production of materials.
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New Forest Bike Project
New Forest Bike Project
Fund: Ideas and Pioneers Fund
Amount: £30,000
Location: Multi-region, South East, South West, UK
Date: 2016
New Forest Bike Project is a social enterprise that will train, support and provide bicycles to disadvantaged people in the community including young people and adults with mental health issues or learning disabilities. It will help people develop the confidence and skills to repair and maintain bikes, and ride safely. Renovated bikes will be given free to those in need, sold locally at a subsidised rate or earned by project participants through volunteering: contributing to healthier lifestyles and sustainable transport in this rural area. Louis Bonney, who is setting up the project has many years experience in the youth and community sector and in all things cycling. PHF funding will contribute to his salary and other costs over an 18-month period.