Grants database

To raise the educational aspirations and achievements of local children aged 5–18 years from all ethnic backgrounds through supplementary education.

To create a festival celebrating non-professional singing by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people from across Europe and provide a template for how the amateur arts sector can work with professional organisations to deliver accessible works of high artistic quality.

Life on Legacy Street’- a youth-led drama and film project linking young people from diverse backgrounds and four schools to improve cross-cultural understanding and community cohesion in Tower Hamlets, and to influence how services work with young people.

To develop leadership potential and raise aspirations for young boys from the BME community who are at risk of exclusion from school.

The project is to deliver 10 week alternative curriulum programmes to excluded pupils and support them back into main stream education.

Funding towards core costs to enable ongoing support, advocacy for and engagement of the third sector working in criminal justice.

Over the two three years ContinYou aims to build on the considerable achievements of the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education during its first year of operation. Further funding from the Foundation who together with the DCSF were the founding funders of the centre, will enable the NRC to continue its important work as the national development agency for supplementary schools, with four key work strands: capacity building in the sector, regional development, community cohesion and standards and quality.

An ambitious programme which aims to transform secondary schools into places where the speech, language and communication skills of all young people are actively supported by staff with the knowledge, skills and confidence to do so effectively. The programme aims to impact positively on young people’s achievement, inclusion, behaviour and employability. Our grant would fund the development phase of this initiative, prior to a pilot delivery phase and then national roll out.

Core funding to scale-up an ensemble in repertory producing model into order to produce multiple shows for each age range.

This two year project aims to help Somali students develop their literacy, oral communication, presentation, teamwork and leadership skills and learn about the world of work through producing their own quarterly community magazine. Students will work on the magazine at the after school club and in their own time and will launch each edition with a presentation in English and Somali to local families.

Extension of the 2003–2006 HEARTS project for a further year to involve six new Higher Education Institutes in generating innovation in arts education teaching at primary level.

To produce a dynamic, multi-media, cross-curricular educational resource that explores young people’s own understanding of and stories about conflict and reconciliation.