Grants database

Exploring The Story Of ME aims to build teachers’ skills in literacy development and language acquisition through representative and diverse models of storytelling and theatre making to overcome language-related barriers to learning. The project is a partnership between Beam County Primary, Inspiring Futures, the local authority education team, Ministry of Stories, Mercury Theatre and six additional local primary schools.

Bush Hill Park Primary, in partnership with Enfield Town Schools’ Partnership and nine local primary schools, will collaborate with Bow Arts to explore the types of learning that help teachers and school leaders develop and grow, using a blended approach to arts-based continuing professional development and learning. The project will combine art with other subject areas to develop pupils’ breadth and depth of vocabulary. Making a Mark aims to develop a sustainable programme of creativity by cascading learning across partner schools and developing art leaders.

Shift are a design charity with ten years of experience working in behaviour change and social innovation. They take a collective approach to tackling social problems and use design thinking to help organisations maximise their impact. Understanding the 10million is a research project through which Shift will find out more about the motivations, needs, obstacles and personas in communities who want to sustain volunteering and care giving taken up in lockdown. Through this research, they will develop a set of adaptable pathways for progression.

Liberty is the UK’s leading domestic human rights campaigning organisation. This grant will support Liberty in commissioning Britain Thinks to undertake thorough message-testing on public perceptions of judicial review. The findings will be shared across their network and inform a collaborative public campaign to build support for judicial review.

Black South West Network (BSWN) works to build independent Black, Asian and minoritized communities, businesses and organisations that are empowered to flourish while challenging systemic barriers and addressing racial inequality. BSWN work strategically as the newly appointed Secretariat to Bristol’s Mayoral Commission of Race Equality (CoRE). This project combines BSWN’s social capital, research input from University of Bristol, and policy co-ordination from the Mayor’s Office to test and learn from a One City approach to tackling systemic racism.

YouthAction Northern Ireland is a leading voice and representation organisation for young people in Northern Ireland. They run national programmes and a network of 150+ youth sector and community members, and provide training, infrastructure support and strategic leadership in areas such as collaboration, research and lobbying. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

The Forge develops participatory programmes with teachers, artists, children and young people from County Durham and across the North East. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Tara Arts is an award-winning multicultural theatre in London committed to connecting audiences to Indian stories and worlds. They host and produce a variety of shows including theatre, comedy, music and family performances. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Slung Low is an award-winning theatre company specialising in making productions in non-theatre spaces, often with large community performance companies. They manage The Holbeck in Leeds which includes an open development space for artists and run a Cultural Community College where adults come to learn new cultural skills. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

ROAM is a charity which facilitates unsupervised play in the natural environment to remove barriers, promote children’s independence and advocate for their right to play freely. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch is a regional theatre working in Outer East London, Essex and beyond. Their programme includes home grown theatre, live entertainment and learning and participation projects. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Power2 works with young people aged 13 to 21 across England to develop crucial life skills, improve confidence and boost self-esteem through mentoring and positive psychology. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.