Grants database

Impact Dance is a hip-hop theatre company, street dance organisation and educational facilitator working across the UK and internationally. They aim to educate and empower young people through an annual programme of dance training, mentoring and performances. This grant underpins staffing and programme delivery for the Youth Dance Training Academy and Youth Dance Company. Through these youth dance programmes, Impact Dance will increase reach from their studio base in Camden, deepen their community and education partnership, and improve their evaluation methodology.

COMMUN is a combined arts company who focus on community-building for emerging artists who are Black, Indigenous, and/​or People of Colour (BIPoC) through collaboration and inter-disciplinary practices. This grant supports COMMUN to further develop and expand their model for supporting early and mid-career BIPoC artists through online collaborative digital residencies, skills development, and performance opportunities at partner venues across the UK. Over three years, COMMUN will aim to increase opportunities and arts access for marginalised audiences in London, Bristol and Birmingham, and two additional cities or towns.

Chineke! Foundation provides career opportunities to established and emerging Black and minoritised classical musicians in the UK and Europe. They aim to be a catalyst for change, increasing the representation of ethnically diverse musicians in British and European orchestras. This grant underpins Chineke!’s core mission and work, including developing approaches to better understand the organisation’s impact and share learning.

Camden People’s Theatre (CPT) is dedicated to supporting emerging artists, especially those making work about social issues that matter right now. This grant supports CPT to deliver their commissioning and artist support model which aims to increase professional development opportunities for artists experiencing marginalisation and increase the diversity of CPT’s audiences. Funding will allow the organisation to increase core capacity, embed community-led decision-making and improve sustainability.

The Belgrade Theatre is a regional producing theatre with a strong record of participation, community, education and talent development activity. This grant supports the organisation through a key period of leadership transition, along with work at the Jag, Belgrade Theatre’s new venue. Work at the Jag will focus on delivery of youth participation and talent development initiatives with young people in two communities facing high levels of knife crime and deprivation, in partnership with community groups.

Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe (BEAF) is an independent creative community based in Bournemouth. They work all year round to create opportunities for artists and audiences through collaboration and co-creation with local communities and businesses. This grant supports BEAF to deliver The Outsiders project which will incubate a theatre of people experiencing marginalisation in the community of Boscombe.

Arts at the Old Fire Station is an arts centre that brings art to the public, and provides professional development for artists and support for people experiencing homelessness in an inclusive public space. This grant provides core support to the organisation as they rebuild their programme, reconnect with people who are homeless and socially isolated, and adapt and test new ways of working following the pandemic, to reach and support a more diverse range of individuals and communities.

Arts and Homelessness International works to bring positive change to people, projects and policy in homelessness through arts and creativity. They focus on connecting and strengthening projects and advocating for arts to be a part of homelessness support and policy. This grant provides core support for the roll-out and evaluation of Arts and Homelessness models to influence local authorities and cultural spaces in the UK. This work includes greater opportunities for people with lived experience of homelessness, including through a new leadership programme.

Women for Refugee Women (WfRW) is a charity that supports and empowers women who seek asylum in the UK. They enable refugee and asylum-seeking women to become leaders, ensure they can speak to the media and at public events, publish robust research on their experiences, and work with policymakers to make the case for a fairer asylum process. This grant supports WfRW to continue their main support and empowerment activities, as well as provide mentoring and training for trustee and leadership roles, develop campaigns to oppose the Nationality and Borders Bill, and strengthen the Sisters Not Strangers coalition.

Voices in Exile are a small frontline charity working with people who migrate and those with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) in Brighton, Sussex and Surrey. They offer practical and legal support ranging from generalist advice to specialist immigration casework for those who would otherwise be unable to access justice. This grant underpins Voices in Exile’s core work, enabling them to continue providing high-quality legal advice and casework to address individual and systemic injustice, increase access to rights, entitlements and services, and increase the role of those with lived experience within the organisation.

Tripod Training for Creative Social Action is a small training collective based in Edinburgh. They offer training, facilitation, systems-building and other support to grassroots collectives, and charities to strengthen movements for social, economic and climate justice. This grant supports the delivery of phase two of Tripod’s Organising for Power (O4P) programme. Thirty leaders, organisers, and campaigners will conduct their own deep analysis of their chosen issues and context, plan strategic campaigns, organise their communities, negotiate with power brokers, and build alliances to mobilise around shared issues.

The Voice of Domestic Workers (VODW) is an education and support group working for justice and rights for Britain’s 16,000 migrant domestic workers (MDWs). They seek an end to discrimination against MDWs living in the UK through campaigns, education, training, healthcare and legal advice. This grant supports VODW to deliver Future Voices, a programme to build the capacity of 12 members through mentoring and skills development in partnership with English for Action and Sounddelivery. The programme will grow the impact of VODW and create a pipeline for new leaders.