Grants database

The organisation plans to expand and will consider franchising their successfully piloted e‑mentoring scheme, providing online access to support, training and advice to LGBT young people. Alongside expanding and refining service delivery the charity aims to influence policy, mainstream homeless provision and raise awareness in wider society. This grant will contribute to salary costs of senior staff.

The organisation plans, with support from the Dartington Social Research Unit, to pilot a shared approach to evaluation and learning across six, diverse member organisations. This will provide evidence of impact to funders and commissioners, as well as to establish a set of quality standards for the sector.

This grant will fund key posts which will strengthen the charity, contribute to its sustainability, as well as further developing income generation and relationships with key businesses. Getaway Girls plans to expand its services in Leeds to reach new groups of young women, build new partnerships to extend its offer geographically across the city, and to share good practice with other organisations locally and nationally.

Action for Kids plans to work with schools across eight North London boroughs, encouraging them to make the voice of young people with learning disabilities central to planning for their future. This grant will contribute to senior staff salaries to enable them to spend time influencing school leaders and spreading good practice.

Asylos is a pan-European volunteer network that that trains and support volunteers to research vital information to help refugees fleeing war, violence, and persecution to claim their right to asylum. This grant will fund Asylos to trial their model, well tested in France, Belgium and Greece, in the UK. Asylos will support refugee community organisations and lawyers to research country of origin information for young asylum seekers, helping them claim their right to asylum.

This grant supports a teaching pilot of specially adapted musical instruments to 7–11yr olds and 18–24yr olds who have only one arm or hand. The project will take place in the South East and West Midlands, ensuring these groups can participate in music making, test the instruments and the teaching methods. Results from the pilot will be shared widely to improve practice.

SYHA, working with local partners Doncaster Community Arts and Yorkshire Artspace, plans to test Brighton University’s ​“We Value” participatory evaluation methodology in the arts for the first time, as part of a year-long programme seeking to increase the wellbeing of tenants via music, dance and crafts.

Sound and Music will investigate how to address inequalities of development opportunity for composers – and how to ensure that, once on a programme, individuals from diverse racial and socio-economic backgrounds do not drop off before completion. Our grant will support the testing of more diverse residencies; a mentoring scheme; and a pilot course in East London for young composers/​music creators.

Bangor-based Seacourt Print Workshop and key partners, including the Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health and Comber Autism Support, want to test whether print-making can help people with illnesses and disabilities form new positive identities as artists and increase their wellbeing –using the New Economics Foundation’s Wellbeing evaluation model to understand the impact of the work.

The Royal Exchange (RET), a theatre in central Manchester, has developed its work with young people and older people over the last five years. They will now pilot RET Local – a mobile theatre and engagement programme particularly targeting these age groups. They will create two, six-month community residencies in the low-engagement areas of Rochdale and Cheetham Hill, delivered in partnership with local agencies.

Restoke use dance, music and visual art to produce site-specific performances in disused spaces in Staffordshire. This is a research project in Stoke-on-Trent engaging people who have migrated to Stoke from other countries. The project will target BME migrants and will take place in a disadvantaged area. The learning from this project will inform the development of a performance at the former Spode Pottery Works in Stoke-on-Trent.

Plymouth & District Mind Association, a centre of mental health and wellbeing for Plymouth, will pilot The Art of Living Creatively. This programme will test a new model of using arts to engage groups of people with learning disabilities, autism, physical disability and mental health issues, to build peer networks and to overcome feelings of anxiety and isolation.