Grants database

Grand Junction is a community venue running activities for children and adults, and a public arts and music programme. This grant will support Grand Junction to work with primary schools in Paddington and Thanet, Kent, to improve speech, language and communication skills of children with English as an additional language and/​or speech and language delay. The programme uses drama practice, storytelling and creative writing to support pupils facing multiple barriers in school to thrive as expressive communicators and deep thinkers.

Discover Children’s Story Centre is a venue dedicated to engaging and supporting children aged 0–11, families and teachers with creative approaches to literacy. This grant would enable Discover to respond to needs identified by teachers in East London schools relating to children’s literacy and wellbeing. Discover plans to roll-out its Creative Wellbeing Project to 20 classes in five primary schools, over three years, using illustration, poetry, storytelling and a range of crafts to support children’s development, wellbeing and learning.

Baby People is a Black and minority ethnic led music and arts social enterprise that works with disadvantaged young people in Derby, Nottingham and Leicester. This grant will support Baby People to work with young people in alternative education provisions using their Hip Hop based social pedagogy to support engagement in learning.

Amber is a film and photography collective focused on documenting working class and marginalised lives and landscapes in North East England. This grant will support Amber to work collaboratively with two primary schools to adapt, deliver, trial and evaluate digital and hybrid models of its successful photography and filmmaking approach to supporting children’s learning. The project will also develop continuing professional development for teachers in partnership with Newcastle University, produce a range of resources and explore these adapted models with other primary schools in North Tyneside.

Turf Projects is a grassroots, artist-run, free, contemporary art space in Croydon which hosts two artist collectives, MOSS (a collective of local learning disabled artists) and Art Press (a collective of Croydon artists aged 13–18). This grant will support these collectives to regain their access to the arts post pandemic, promote collaboration, fund associated staff costs and develop an impact measurement system.

Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) is a centre for contemporary arts, that enables audiences, artists and participants to see, experience and create. This grant will support DCA in partnership with LUX Scotland and Collective to bring lasting, systemic change in the Scottish arts sector for disabled artists and arts professionals. This programme of research, evaluation and commissioning will create opportunities for meaningful organisational developments to ensure the institutions and their programmes better reflect society.

Bernie Grant Arts Centre (BGAC) is a Black-focused visual arts space in Tottenham working to remove the barriers contributing to underrepresentation in the arts, putting Black artists centre-stage and advocating for critical change. This grant will support the development of their Community Programme and fund associated staff costs, enabling them to grow their critical work with local Black and global majority communities, and establish robust evaluation frameworks to monitor and assess the impact of their work.

Based in Manchester, 42nd Street supports young people with their mental health and wellbeing. This grant will support core staffing and artists fees as part of the continued development of The Horsfall – 42nd Street’s dedicated, young person-curated, creative space that supports young people’s mental health and wellbeing programme.

20 Stories High is a theatre company creating work for and with young people in theatre venues and community spaces. This grant will support them to implement a revised vision and mission and develop a renewed focus on wellbeing, activism and new leadership and voices. This includes delivering an ambitious and inclusive programme of work made with communities. Together they aim to embed Equality, Diversity, Inclusivity and Activism (EDIA) at the heart of their work; create more work with and for Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists, participants and audiences; and diversify their leadership through new associate roles.

the3million is a campaign organisation for EU citizens in the UK, formed to protect the rights of people who have made the UK their home. This grant will part fund the3million’s communications, research and legal/​policy analysis and parliamentary engagement and policy influencing functions.

South Riverside Community Development Centre (SRCDC) is a community development charity, which aims to address deprivation, facilitate civic engagement and build social cohesion in the South Riverside and nearby areas of Cardiff. This grant will enable SRCDC to recruit a community organiser and two community connectors who will co-produce an influencing model with the support of Bevan Foundation. Through this work, SRCDC will develop an action plan that aims to strengthen civil society relationships in Wales and resolve tensions by listening, offering support and fundraising for joint work.

Opus Independents creates platforms for independent information and communication, which amplify voices within the local economy, voluntary, community and campaign sectors. This grant will fund a specialist community correspondent to research and report on issues related to migration and race in Sheffield and South Yorkshire for its existing independent media platform, Now Then Magazine. Through this work, Opus also plans to support local advocacy and campaigning for migrant rights and share practice and learning with a UK network of independent media.