Grants database

Creative Youth Network works in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, and North East Somerset. It runs four open access youth centres, provides a one to one advice service for young people navigating challenging situations, offers creative courses and qualifications, and has an alternative education provision. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Cove Park creates residencies in all the art forms for national and international artists, supporting the development of new work alongside a year round programme of free artist-led creative workshops, events and talks for local children, young people and families. This grant supports Cove Park in continuing the development and delivery of ​‘Hands On Cove Park’ and adapt to the longer-term impact of Covid-19 through online resources and responsive offers that maximise use of Cove Park’s facilities once reopened.

Arts and Health South West is a learning, advocacy, networking and development organisation. This grant will support the set up of the National Centre for Creative Health, to take forward the recommendations on Creative Health by the APPG on arts, health and wellbeing.

Enact Equality works to advance racial justice and equality in the UK. This grant will provide core costs to support their work advocating for race equality and creating system change. This involves influencing decision-making, empowering young people from disadvantaged or racialised backgrounds, and working with leaders to foster equality, social justice and tangible change.

Culture Commons is an organisation that blends public relations, stakeholder management, campaign strategy and traditional lobbying in order to help amplify the voices of creative organisations who want their work to have an impact on policy at local, national and international levels. This grant will support them to build the evidence base for a series of policy recommendations specifically designed to make the UK’s creative and cultural sectors more equal, diverse and inclusive.

Comic Relief is a charity based in the UK, with a vision of a just world, free from poverty. This pooled fund will support the intersection of migration, racial injustice, popular culture and social change working with organisations at the cutting edge of this work. The programme aims to embed a comprehensive learning approach in order to strengthen and grow the field in the UK.

YMCA George Williams College – incorporating The Centre for Youth Impact – is a community of UK organisations that work together to progress thinking and practice around impact measurement in youth work and services for young people. This grant provides core support to the Centre, enabling the organisation to engage in collaboration focused on delivering infrastructure functions across the youth sector as part of the Youth Sector Infrastructure Collective.

ACEVO is a network of over 1,400 charity and social enterprise CEOs and aspiring CEOs. This grant is to support delivery of the second part of the Home Truths (HT) project which shone a light on the problem of racism and race equity in civil society. HT2 will focus on and accelerate practical action in civil society to centre race equity and ensure organisations positively impact Black and minority ethnic people inside and outside the sector, identifying real-life interventions on race equity that exemplify a further, faster approach.

Friends Provident Foundation is an independent charity that makes grants and uses its endowment towards a fair and sustainable economic system that serves society. They aim to connect, fund, invest and share learning to shape an economy that works for all. This grant is a contribution towards the research costs of the Foundation Practice Rating (FPR), which rates UK foundations on their accountability, representation and transparency on an annual basis

Power the Fight tackles violence affecting young people. They work to create long-term solutions for sustainable change and act as a link between the community and policy makers. This grant will fund an event and accompanying report to highlight the contributions of Black professionals in safeguarding Black children in the UK. The event will foreground anti-racist methods of knowledge creation and healing.

Speech Bubbles delivers drama programmes for young children with communication needs and supports other theatres to do the same. This grant will fund core costs to support organisational development and expand the reach of the central Speech Bubbles programme to benefit children aged 5–7 with speech, language and communication needs.

The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) is a dance education charity that delivers multiple initiatives that engage a range of target audiences in dance. This grant will support the provision of the RADiate programme of inclusive and accessible dance for primary-aged children with special educational needs and disabilities. Funding also supports early career dance artists and RAD BA Ballet Education degree students via paid assistantships and mentored placements creating pathways into inclusive dance teaching.