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Mind in Camden is an independent mental health charity set up in 1985 and affiliated to National Mind. Mind in Camden will set up a network of 15 peer support groups for young refugees and asylum seekers with mental health problems, in partnership with refugee organisations across London. Mind will provide training and coaching for staff in each of the partner organisations: developing their capacity to address the mental health needs of their clients.

Hope not Hate undertakes community action and engagement, research, training and educational services. It operates via a network of 40 active groups around the country engaging over 220,000 people. Through this grant, the organisation will deliver a regional programme of leadership development for young migrants. It will support them to work on local issues with the aim of creating a UK network of young migrant leaders, who can collectively campaign at a national level.

Citizens UK organises communities across the UK to act together on social justice issues. This project will support individuals trapped in the ​‘Jungle’ in Calais, who have settled family in the UK to apply for their asylum claims to be heard by the UK.

The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is the UK’s leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. This project will allow ODI to produce a comic to help tell the stories emerging from migrants making dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean. This will enable their research to reach a wider audience.

A pooled fund set up by PHF, Barrow Cadbury Trust, Big Lottery Fund, and Comic Relief and administered by UK Community Foundations, New Beginnings will support local groups working to welcome refugees and asylum seekers into their local communities.

Based in rural Shropshire, Oswestry Community Action is a community centre with a strong focus on arts activities. The project will deliver an integrated programme of participatory and collaborative art, craft and dance activities to tackle rural isolation by offering activities in low key community venues.

Talking Birds is a Coventry-based theatre company specialising in acts of transformation, both large and small. The company sees accessibility as core to their practice. Working together with arts organisations/​audiences, this project will test and develop an affordable access tool, which broadcasts captioning, audio descriptions and more to mobile devices. Talking Birds intends to develop this tool for wider use.

This programme consists of 45 bi-weekly sessions reaching up to 25 disadvantaged young people in Southwark. These sessions will include 2 annual artist residencies, 2 degree show visits and mentoring opportunities through the University of the Arts. The artist residencies will be selected by Youth Platform participants, in which they help to co-create 2 month-long exhibitions together with a resident artist in 2016 and 2017. This programme will give these young people the tools to become active cultural producers.

Stopgap Dance Company, resident company of Farnham Maltings (University of Surrey) is the UK’s top integrated professional contemporary dance company, working with dancers with and without disabilities, on small to mid-scale work. This project will trial an inclusive dance syllabus aimed at disabled children and young people. It will run pilot classes and collect evidence with the aim of publishing a tool-kit to advocate its potential for sector-wide impact. 

A collaboration between NMPAT, the Computer Music Department of Goldsmiths University and local partners to design, develop and build bespoke musical instruments for children with special needs and disabilities.

Step by Step would like to reduce its reliance on local authority contracts and increase commercial and individual donor income. This would enable the charity to meet the growing demand for its services for young people who are homeless or facing homelessness. This grant will contribute to salary costs for two new posts: Business Services Manager and Head of Income Generation.

The charity plans to campaign to keep young people’s mental health on the agenda and keep young people’s experiences and voices at the centre of discussions, through making its Vs young activist group a core part of the charity’s work. This grant will part-fund the salary of the Youth Engagement Manager, a core post under the new strategy.