Grants database

Migrant Action is an advocacy and rights organisation providing information, guidance, advocacy support and direct practical assistance to vulnerable people who have migrated. This grant provides core funding to enhance Migrant Action’s capacity to provide emergency and recovery support to vulnerable migrants living precariously as well as to increase the capacity for grassroots mobilisation and campaigning against hostile environment policy.

KIN aims to bring Black activists and organisers together from across the UK to collaborate, strategise and support each other. This grant will support KIN’s work on empowering and amplifying the voices of Black migrants within the UK Black community. KIN will build relationships, facilitate dialogue and platform leaders with lived experience to build better community cohesion and enhance the support for migration system reform within and beyond the black community.

Young Harrow Foundation (YHF) supports the local voluntary sector to build capacity, increase funding and develop effective partnership working for the benefit of children and young people. This grant will allow YHF to develop, expand, and embed its local collective-impact model ​‘Change Champions’ long term, with young people leading the agenda for youth support in Harrow.

ThinkForward is a long-term coaching programme that prepares young people for the world of work. This grant will support ThinkForward to review and coproduce a new ​‘essential skills framework’ with young people. This will also feed into the development of ​‘Move Forward’, a new programme for young people with learning disabilities.

Working in partnership with six primary schools in Scotland, Step It Up will look at the different ways teachers can use dance and kinaesthetic learning to support and challenge pupils in deprived areas to achieve their potential. This project will develop teachers’ confidence, skills and knowledge. Using practical sessions and blended continuing professional development and learning, 18 teachers and two dance artists will take part in an experiential learning journey led by pedagogy, reflection and evaluation. Working with teachers and school leaders, Step It Up aims to improve engagement, attainment and overcome barriers to learning.

This project aims to enhance the use and value of film-based learning across the curriculum for primary schools in the town of Hawick in Scotland, working in partnership with Alchemy Film and Arts. Workshops, practical exercises, sharing networks and robust evaluation will support and energise teacher-participants to develop the skills and confidence to effectively use digital teaching methods in the classroom. The programme will establish methods of sharing and sustained knowledge exchange between the teachers and their respective schools, reaching out locally, nationally and globally.

Travelling Light Theatre will work with five Bristol schools to support teachers to explore how drama-based learning can develop oracy and emotional literacy, supporting wellbeing and addressing inequality of opportunity which affects educational outcomes. Together they will develop a progressive skills-based curriculum offer, expanding teachers’ practice and embedding drama into the wider curriculum.

Theatre Royal Norwich will partner with eight schools in the Wensum Trust to deliver Wild about Words. This programme will empower teachers and senior leaders working with artists to harness the power of story-sharing and reduce barriers to learning for pupils experiencing disadvantage. Wild About Words aims to establish a ​‘Story-sharing School’ model utilising drama-led practices which allow pupils to develop literacy skills and their executive functioning skills.

Through this project, digital artists and teachers and school leaders from six primary schools will work with the University of Sheffield’s MakerFutures and the National Videogame Museum on a programme of continued professional development and learning to increase teachers’ skills, knowledge, experience and confidence in using arts-based practices to teach digital literacies and ​‘Worldbuilding’.

Newlyn Art Gallery will partner with nine primary schools, led by Newlyn School, in rural West Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, to create an in-school gallery at each location. Artworks will be borrowed from the Arts Council Collection and Cornwall Council Schools Art Collection, and inspire a programme of live and digital continuing professional development and learning for teachers and senior staff led by artist-educators. Teachers’ learning will focus on practical sessions, exploring drawing, printmaking and 3D construction, along with thinking and talking about art, enabling them to harness the full potential of art across their curriculum.

Rehearsal for Life is a partnership between Mitcham Town Community Trust, seven Mitcham primary schools and Wimbledon Civic Theatre. This programme will act as a catalyst for change in approaches to teaching English language and literature at Key Stage 2 across the participating schools. Using applied drama and music practice, the project aims to improve learning outcomes, working with teachers to develop and embed innovative practice and creative approaches to learning across the curriculum.

Leeds Beckett University and Bowling Park Primary will work together with eight primary schools in Bradford to develop Empowering Voice. This programme aims to bring the curriculum to life through drama and storytelling with an explicit focus on children’s oracy – the ability to articulate ideas, develop understanding and engage with others through spoken and non-verbal language. Working with diverse artists, teachers and children across inner city schools, the project will create imaginative and culturally relevant curriculum opportunities through drama.