Grants database

The Difference creates specialist senior school leaders, with the expertise to lead whole-school and multi-agency approaches to meeting the learning, wellbeing and safeguarding needs of all children, and most crucially those with high levels of need and vulnerability. This grant supports a third cohort of Difference Leaders to complete an intensive training and placement programme, in order to develop expertise in inclusive school leadership.

Nick of Time Productions is led by director, producer and founder Nicolas Kent. This grant supports the production of a verbatim play about the Grenfell Inquiry edited by Richard Norton-Taylor at the Tabernacle Theatre. The play is planned to run for five weeks followed by a week-long run at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

Comic Relief and Paul Hamlyn Foundation are working in partnership to deliver the Tech for Good funding programme, which supports non-profits who are using technology to deliver new ideas and make services more effective. This grant provides funding for two additional Tech for Good projects and to build the capacity of training partners CAST.

YWCA Scotland – The Young Women’s Movement – is a feminist organisation which creates transformational spaces that enable young women to lead personal, community and institutional change. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Youth Initiatives specialises in long term, relationship based, preventative youth work in areas of high social need in Northern Ireland. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Young Scot is the national youth information and citizenship agency for young people in Scotland aged 11–26. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Touretteshero was founded in 2010 to share the humour and creativity of Tourettes and to campaign for a more inclusive society. They collaborate with disabled and non-disabled people and partner organisations across the UK, and across art forms, in order to create flagship artistic projects and programmes for children and young people. They aim to build a better understanding of how creativity can improve individual and community well-being and ignite social change. This grant provides an additional one-year extension to Touretteshero’s grant through the Breakthrough Fund and underpins the creative Solidarity programme for disabled children and their families.

The Ubele Initiative (Ubele) is an African Diaspora led intergenerational social enterprise, working to build more sustainable communities across the UK. This grant supports the role of Finance Manager which will allow Ubele to develop core systems after their rapid growth during the pandemic.

The Play House uses participatory theatre and drama to support the language and learning of children and young people. They aim to ignite children’s imagination and creativity through meaningful participation based on pedagogy and practice that has been developed over 30 years in partnership with Birmingham and Midlands schools. They deliver high quality, engaging programmes supported by comprehensive and practical resources for teachers. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

The Black Curriculum (TBC) is a social enterprise that aims to deliver Black British history teaching and learning across the UK. They run virtual and in-person programmes to schools, young people and corporations to promote the importance of Black history and develop free and licensable resources for schools. Their aim is to prepare students to become fully rounded citizens, ready for an increasingly globalised world. This grant provides core support to TBC to implement their strategic plan, strengthen organisational infrastructure and respond directly to the inequalities uncovered by the pandemic.

The Active Learning Trust brings together experienced and successful practitioners who share a collective belief in the effectiveness of school improvement, the primacy of performance management and the potential of new technology to enhance learning. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Switch Up works with children and young people who are at risk of or already involved with gang and criminal activity. It uses a combination of sports, peer mentoring and coaching to help young people to transform their lives and to break the cycle of offending and reoffending. This grant provides a 12-month extension for Switch Up to stabilise and strengthen infrastructure and meet the challenges of maintaining support for local vulnerable young people post-pandemic.