Grants database

Unlimited is an arts commissioning body that supports, funds and promotes new work by disabled artists for UK and international audiences. This grant supports Unlimited to maintain and develop the role of Artist Support Manager to deliver improved support to disabled artists and share best practice with the sector. This will include providing peer-to-peer artist sessions, supporting organisations to design and deliver accessible commissioning processes and redesigning evaluation processes.

Theatre Peckham is a Black-led performing arts academy providing education and access to the theatre and film industry for children and young people experiencing disadvantage who live in Southwark. This grant provides core support to strengthen their staff structure, and to enable the Artistic Director to test and develop new approaches, supporting more young people at the grassroots to magnify their talent and impact.

PRS Foundation funds new music across all genres, supporting artist and audience development across the UK. They enable songwriters and composers of all backgrounds to achieve their potential and reach global audiences. This grant supports Power Up – an ambitious, long-term initiative supporting Black music creators and industry professionals, which seeks to address anti-Black racism and racial disparities in the UK music sector.

Oily Cart makes interactive theatre for groups that experience profound barriers to access and participation. This grant will support the organisation to increase access to high-quality interactive theatre for disabled children who experience multiple barriers to the arts. A blended approach of live and ​‘at home’ experiences will embed learnings from the period of lockdown, which opened up opportunities to those previously excluded. Oily Cart will increase under-represented audiences and engagement through creative, family workshops and working groups, designed to ignite a step-change in the disabled community’s agency to participate in, influence and lead theatre.

Heads Together is a community arts organisation based in East Leeds that uses the arts to support communities to reach their potential. This grant provides core support to develop UNION: The Northern School for Creativity and Activism; and to create a community of learning across the north of England involving individuals and organisations who are at all stages of learning around the themes of creativity, activism and co-production.

DIY is a member-led Learning Disability theatre company based in Salford. They create accessible, thought-provoking theatre and creative projects where learning disabled performers, theatre-makers and arts leaders are valued as part of the cultural sector and society. This grant supports DIY to provide a three-year bespoke leadership training programme, creating more development opportunities and career pathways for emerging learning disabled artists. Through the programme DIY will address structural inequalities in the cultural sector, promote the value of lived experience leadership and challenge systemic ableism and limited perceptions of people with learning disabilities.

Beacon Films is a production and training company of 43 disabled, autistic and neurodivergent film-makers based in Newcastle upon Tyne. This grant supports Beacon Films to test, grow and share practical ways to improve inclusion for disabled people in the creative screen industries.

Europia is a community development organisation committed to supporting and empowering Eastern European nationals in Greater Manchester. This grant will support Europia to provide immigration advice and advocacy support for new arrivals from UkraineThey will also provide financial aid through small emergency grants, and work with local authorities to better understand the needs of Ukrainian communities.

Revoke is a grassroots organisation advocating for the rights and welfare of underserved young people, particularly refugees, asylum seekers, and those in the care system. This grant will enable Revoke to give a platform for young people to address how social issues such as housing, economics and the climate crisis affect displaced people. They will do this through a wide range of partnerships – connecting young people in the migration system to other social movements, training and mentorship.

JUSTICE is a law reform and human rights organisation, carrying out research to generate and evaluate recommendations to reform the justice system. With this grant, JUSTICE will support the Home Office to implement the recommendations of its Windrush Compensation Scheme research and use the learnings of the Windrush scheme to influence wider systematic change within the immigration system. The grant will also support JUSTICE to apply the lessons learned from the Windrush Report to other Home Office schemes that have similar issues, and subsequently their wider immigration casework.

Islington Law Centre (ILC) supports marginalised people, achieving positive outcomes for clients and securing policy and practice change through strategic legal and policy work. This grant will support collaborative, strategic work by Islington Law Centre’s three migration focused teams: Migrant Law Project, Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit and the Community Facing Immigration Team.

Central England Law Centre (CELC) provides free legal advice and representation in the areas of community care, discrimination, employment, family, housing, immigration and asylum, and more. This grant will support the delivery of CELC’s Rights in the Community Strategy. This five-year strategy seeks to shift CELC’s community outreach, public legal education, partnership-working and strategic policy-influencing towards a community-driven model.