Grants database

Tamasha is a national new writing theatre company, serving Global Majority artists and audiences. This grant will support Tamasha to roll out a national developing artists programme, supporting emerging and mid-career artists from the Global Majority. This will in turn develop audiences to access and participate in authentic diverse stories in the theatre space.

Slung Low are large scale People’s Theatre creators based in Holbeck, inner south Leeds. They also manage a shared community resource and arts centre. This grant will allow Slung Low to deliver a leadership academy to create the capacity for civic leadership amongst the people of Holbeck, ensuring local committees are more representative of the communities of Holbeck. The academy will also work to increase the capacity of values-based, action-led leadership within the arts sector.

Museum of Homelessness (MoH) educates on homelessness through their artistic work and public programme. They take practical action to support the homeless community and fight injustice through research and campaigning. This grant supports MoH to pilot and develop a new creative community asset in Finsbury Park, employing and supporting people with experience of homelessness in key creative and community building roles; commissioning exceptional artists from marginalised backgrounds to make participatory work; deepening community action and agency and growing campaigning and influencing work.

Hear Me Out brings immigration detainees and communities together to create and perform powerful music, increase wellbeing, and change attitudes to migrants. This grant will support Hear Me Out to develop organisational capability, build capacity and expand their audiences.

Glasgow Zine Library is a community space, self-publishing library and archive working with adults and young people, artists and marginalised community groups to provide affordable and accessible community arts programmes. This grant provides core support to enable the organisation to deliver a community arts and training programme, provide professional development for staff and volunteers and employ local, marginalised creatives to provide meaningful, high-quality arts programming for a diverse and inclusive audience.

EastSide Arts inspire residents and visitors by celebrating east Belfast, nurturing creative talent and delivering excellent programmes and events. This grant will enable them to deliver ​‘Creative Citizens’, a four-year immersive community engagement programme in east Belfast. The organisation will build community capacity to design and deliver creative programmes, create a benchmark for creative community facilitation and build and nourish a creative ecosystem in east Belfast.

Coventry City of Culture Trust is an arts organisation planning and delivering Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture 2021 and its legacy activity between 2022–2024. This grant will support the Trust to work with the arts and community sector to embed legacy practice via a programme of commissioned partner projects and capacity-building support. The programme is designed to harness and expand networks of partners and embed co-creation practice and joined-up ways of working across the city, with funds contributing to a series of targeted and open commissions, and associated staff costs.

Ardent Theatre Company produce theatre, career training and mentorship programmes, providing a platform for theatre industry voices and online resources. Their aim is to make theatre a place where no one feels like an outsider, welcoming people whose voices are unheard and stories untold. This grant provides core funding for staffing costs to enable Ardent to sustain their work and grow their impact through fundraising activity.

Windrush Defenders Legal (WDL) provides free independent support and advocacy to the African Caribbean community, particularly the Windrush Generation, while actively contributing to a just and equal society where everyone’s rights are protected. This grant will support them to create or amend legislation that restores the citizenship of the Windrush Generation and their descendants, and repairs the damage done to community cohesion by racially disproportionate immigration law enforcement.

Reunite Families UK (RFUK) is a lived experience-led organisation, working with and supporting families affected by the UK spouse visa rules and the Minimum Income Requirement. This grant will support RFUK to gather more evidence of short and longer-term forced separation on the mental health of individuals, especially children, through network expansion, research and policy advocacy. Funding will provide staffing costs for a part-time Manager, a part-time Co-production Coordinator and external evaluation.

Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) supports movements for social, racial, economic and climate justice in order to map, develop and strengthen compelling narratives that transform policy, systems and culture. This grant will cover core support towards PIRC’s lived experience-led narrative change project. The work focuses on cross-issue, root-cause, movement-building approaches to narrative work by training 15 lived experience leaders on priority issues including migration, racial justice, LGBTQ+ liberation, climate justice and poverty.

Migrants Organise bring immigration detainees and communities together to create and perform powerful music, increase wellbeing, and change attitudes to migrants. This grant will provide core funding to develop their artistic programme with Migrants in Culture, a migrant-led design agency. The programme aims to improve the wellbeing of all participants; put people with lived experience of detention on public platforms where they will be seen, heard and recognised; and raise awareness of detention, and help change public attitudes.