Grants database

Studio Voltaire (SV) is a contemporary arts organisation based in Clapham. This grant will provide support for its four-year civic programming, including the development of a Programme Advisory Group of local community members to critically engage and reflect on SV’s work, and a national programme of research and creative participation with, by and for young trans people.

Peak Cymru collaborates with young people, artists and intergenerational communities to celebrate the unique qualities and ecologies of Southeast Wales. This grant funds core costs to enable rurally based young people aged 16 to 30 years to shape Peak Cymru’s programme, to embed their voice within the organisation and strengthen a co-leadership model.

Ort Gallery is an artist-led exhibition space in Birmingham with the social mission to facilitate dialogue in the community. With this grant, the gallery will continue to test and develop their ​‘Warmth’ way of working, centring care and embedding equity across all their work; this will involve internal development of governance and policies, and community-led programming focusing on supporting under-served Muslim creatives and audiences.

Museum of Colour is a heritage and creativity social enterprise. This grant contributes core funds for the development of a digital museum to explore the contribution made by people of colour to the nation’s film, television and art, through a series of digital collections and responses. Museum of Colour wishes to shift the narrative of the UK’s arts and national history by recognising and celebrating the lives of past generations of artists of colour. In addition, they will support others to reframe and retell their stories to create a fuller richer history without omissions and obsfucations.

Impact Dance (ID) is a Black-led art-for-social-change organisation specialising in hip-hop theatre, street dance and youth development. This grant will support Impact Dance’s work addressing the inequality of opportunity to access and participate in dance by those facing long-term structural and systemic inequalities: an accessible CPD programme for dance teachers from non-traditional backgrounds, pastoral care provision for members, and residential and respite opportunities for young people in the Academy.

Future Yard CIC is a social enterprise with the ambition to reimagine the role of a community music venue. This grant contributes to core costs to develop Future Yard, their music venue and artist hub in Birkenhead, as a community asset that will develop and nurture cultural industries in the North West and support the local community.

East London Dance (ELD) work to inspire communities through dance, creating opportunities within dance for those least likely to receive them.This grant provides core funding to enable ELD to deliver their three main programmes of work – an artist commissioning programme, ​‘Our House’; a professional development programme for producers, ​‘Producers House’; and ​‘Creative Collective’, a paid advisory board formed of creatives aged 18–35 that will inform ELD’s strategic development and artistic programme.

Beyond Face is a theatre company working with local global majority artists and young people to help them to build their own creative work and sense of community. This grant supports the growth and development of Beyond Face’s Regional Voices programme, which aims to connect with local people who currently have little to no engagement or experience with the theatre industry, investigating how people who don’t work in the arts sector can engage with arts as a creative outlet.

ATLAS Arts organises collective art projects across the North West coast of Scotland. They work with artists and local residents through a programme of screenings, residencies and workshops. This grant will support the delivery of the School of Plural Futures (SoPF), a three-year youth-led creative learning programme where young people create a peer-led community to talk about housing, social history, culture, belonging, climate justice, Gaelic and Scottish colonial history in a safe and supported way. Working with a lead artist, the group will explore issues through creative activities including book making, film screenings, film making, print making, writing and poetry.

The Refugee and Migrant Policy (RAMP) Project helps political leaders to think more deeply and to collaborate more widely on migration, asylum and integration issues to improve the quality and quantity of political debate and subsequent policy outcomes. With a General Election expected in 2024, this grant enables RAMP to continue supporting: backbench Conservative parliamentarians who disagree with the current leadership’s anti-migrant policies and rhetoric; backbench Labour politicians to adopt more positive policy positions for migrants publicly and to their frontbenchers, and help build confidence among senior Labour politicians that there is public and political support for more ambitious migration and refugee policies; and Liberal Democrats, who are likely to increase their parliamentary presence.

Southwark Law Centre provides specialist legal advice for people who cannot afford to pay for services in the areas of discrimination, employment, housing, planning, welfare rights, and immigration and asylum law. This grant will enable Southwark Law Centre to support individuals to access the Windrush Compensation Scheme through coordination of a coalition of civil society organisations including community centres, universities, law firms and law centres.

South London Refugee Association (SLRA) works alongside refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants, supporting them to achieve settled lives and positive futures. With this grant, SLRA will increase the impact of their local community organising work, using their community leadership programme as a springboard to build confidence and solidarity. They will also recruit a community engagement manager who will lead on developing cross sector collaboration and learning and strengthen the leadership team’s capacity and capabilities.