Grants database

This new project is targeted at disadvantaged 16–25 year olds who have already engaged in personal development programmes within prison or with organisations such as Venture Trust. It is focused on enabling these young people to further develop their skills to enable their transition to independent adulthood. Through a link up with the YHA, the project makes use of self development through outdoor adventure, and also uses community engagement projects. Much emphasis is placed on the individual taking control of their own development programme and peer group support.

Pilot for establishing domestic abuse (DA) service for young Deaf people in the UK.

Mind the Gap’ is being funded for three years to help groups across the UK working with young refuges and asylum seekers to find ways of collaborating with other local youth groups, to develop social action campaigns. Working together, young people from different backgrounds will identify local problems they wish to address, and using arts and media will be helped to find ways to bring about change in their local community.

To support asylum seeking young people in Birmingham to access mainstream services. The project is also intended to change the culture within mainstream organisations so that it reflects the interests and concerns of young asylum seekers and integrates them with the host community as well as other young people who use the service.

To develop provision of therapeutic support for children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties attending schools across Birmingham.

Studio Schools are an exciting new model of state school offering immersive, work-based learning and enterprise as key features. Demand is high but public sector budget cuts have led to a reduction in the viable fee levels the trust can charge and hence a deficit they will otherwise struggle to meet as they grow to achieve a position of financial sustainability.

Apply our successful early years model to centres nationally, develop its international reach and test new ways of engaging different age-brackets.

Core support of the new post of General Manager’s capacity.

A further grant to continue our core support support of this programme.

To underpin the further development of Get the Message, a long term gallery programme of education work for artists, teachers and young people with profound and multiple learning difficulties.

Three-year project to support and train young people to research, plan and deliver entrepreneurial arts projects in their communities, leading to performances at Curve Theatre.

To underpin the organisational development work that NYO has started, supporting them through a period of change, to achieve their vision and shape a socially responsible future for orchestral practice.