Grants database

Creative Futures is a charity whose mission is to transform the lives of vulnerable children and young people experiencing disadvantage through high quality targeted arts programmes. This grant enables the continuity of Creative Futures’ Sound Communities project, a professional development programme for Early Years professionals exploring the theme of music and communication by building ​‘communities of practice’ in a number of locations in London and the South East.

Circle Collective is a London based chain of shops offering work experience to young people who are unemployed. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Asylum Matters is a charity that works in partnership locally and nationally to improve the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum through social and political change. By mobilising and coordinating local, regional and national advocacy work, they aim to increase the impact of campaigns to secure improvements to asylum policy and practice. This grant supports the organisation in helping its partners convene, act and advocate locally and nationally for the rights of asylum seekers, in increasingly difficult and unprecedented circumstances.

The Anti-Tribalism Movement is a Somali-British led non-profit organisation aimed at educating and raising awareness about the effects of tribalism within communities. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Allsorts Youth Project supports children and young people under 26 who are lesbian, gay bisexual or transgender (LGBT), or unsure of their sexual orientation and/​or gender identity (LGBTU). They work in East and West Sussex schools, colleges and community organisations to ensure the provision of LGBT youth inclusive and safe services. This grant provides core support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Founded by Nur Khairiyah, Welcome To My Crying Party will be a monthly ​‘braver space’ for Asian diaspora communities, which includes East Asian, South East Asian, South Asian, Central Asian, and including those of mixed-Asian heritage. This grant supports development of the space that will be used for recovery, to inspire and uplift creatives’ hopes and spirits for 2021. Through creating a sense of shared experience, and providing a space to cry, My Crying Party will enable Asian diaspora communities to give each other mutual support and inspire each other’s artistic practice.

Southampton Music Hub is a growing partnership of local, regional and national organisations, working together to build an inspiring and inclusive programme of music making that reflects the cultural diversity of Southampton. This co-constructed programme explores literacy and music learning through rap and spoken word. Southampton Music Hub is partnering with a rap/​spoken word artist, music hub practitioners and school teachers and leaders from three Southampton primary schools.

S.M.I.L.E‑ing Boys project is a research-led arts and well-being organisation working with Black and minoritised boys in London. This grant supports the project in scaling their pilot programme to deliver a creative schools’ offer around the ​‘8 Pillars of Happiness’ to Year 9 and 10 students. The programme aims to improve overall engagement in learning in a format that provides inclusive tools for students and teachers to explore and pursue their specific interests. Young people will co-construct the sessions and teacher and senior leadership will engage in development around cultural equity, curriculum and complete culture decolonisation.

London Bubbles is a company whose ethos that ​‘people make theatre’ informs their values and work around participating, creating, performing and watching theatre. This project adapts the company’s highly successful ​‘Speech Bubbles’ drama for communication programme. The programme supports children in Key Stage 1 who have been negatively affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, including increased numbers of children with speech, language and communication needs. Working with specialists in children’s Social Emotional and Mental Health, London Bubble will reflect on and refine their practice and deliver a programme of work to schools between February 2021 and March 2022.

DanceEast enables everyone to experience dance. They aim to raise aspirations and transform lives by championing excellence, engaging the public, and inspiring artists. This grant supports DanceEast to create an accessible, scalable and innovative teaching pedagogy with over 20 Suffolk primary schools, in order to support learning in dance and across the curriculum. The programme focuses on the advancement of blending digital and face-to-face pedagogies, building on existing evidence, and rolling out incrementally over three and a half years.

Yorkshire Dance is a charity which champions the value of dance and its development in Yorkshire and provides opportunities for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to take part in high quality dance. This grant supports Company of People (COP), a project to create a community performance company representing the intersections of ages, genders, abilities and ethnic backgrounds in Chapeltown and Harehills, Leeds. Local dance artists will work with COP to create work exploring gender and intersectionality and COP members will access fun, sociable opportunities to build technique and experience, culminating in a major new performance for Leeds 2023.

MK Gallery is a public venue and educational charity, presenting British and international contemporary art exhibitions alongside events, films, learning and community programmes. This grant supports MK Gallery’s Inclusive Practice in the Arts programme which enables families with children with profound and multiple needs to access stimulating and inspiring arts-based programmes. MK Gallery will increase opportunities to access high quality art engagement; develop progression routes for young people as they transition towards adulthood; strengthen and develop new partnerships; and become a regional hub through which to share best practice.