Grants database

School of Hard Knocks is a national charity working in England, Scotland, and Wales. The organisation offers a combination of sport, group sessions and mentoring to help participants improve their physical and mental wellbeing. This grant will pilot the integration of a psychology-based behavioural support offer into the schools programme in Wales. Learning will be used to inform organisational development and expansion.

Royal Caledonian Education Trust is a Scottish charity, supporting children and young people whose parents are in the Armed Forces, or are veterans. This grant will support the organisation to expand their Youth Participation Programme with two new Regional Participation Officers focusing on more remote areas of Scotland and increasing the number of young people engaged. This will allow the Participation Manager to focus on strategy and wider influencing and ensure that the learning from this work reaches key decision and policy makers.

LGBT Youth Scotland is a national charity that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex young people aged 13–25. This grant will enable the organisation to enhance the scope and quality of their volunteering scheme, and to expand a digital youth work offer to reach more young people in remote parts of Scotland.

Future Men is a London-based charity that supports boys and young men who are at risk of exclusion or in the criminal justice system, to becoming dynamic and healthy future men. Through this grant, Future Men aims to develop the organisation’s partnership model, profile and income diversification.

In 2021 Coventry will host events that shine a spotlight onto the city and its communities and act as a catalyst for change in the cultural landscape and in other non-cultural sectors. This grant provides support for Coventry UK City of Culture 2021, particularly underpinning two of the programming themes – Collaborative City and Caring City.

Project Sparks is a programme in which musically-gifted, disabled young people work alongside experienced arts specialist teachers to teach music and dance to Keystage 2 classes and their teachers, in three primary schools in Derry. The project aims to break through the prevailing barriers towards understanding disability and to improve the quality of music and dance education in the schools.

Bristol Music Trust develops the programme of music and events at Colston Hall, and works to support young people through music education activities in Bristol and the South West. As part of a major strategic redevelopment, Bristol Music Trust will expand the organisation’s informal learning offer to co-create long-term participatory and performance programmes with a range of communities in the city who experience least access to the arts.

This grant will support the 2020 London Borough of Culture programme to embed an enhanced cultural offer and improved infrastructure in the borough. Funding will support key staff in the Borough of Culture team and contribute to the Young Ambassadors programme, which aims to develop future cultural leaders who will feed into decision-making, strategy and delivery.

Acta engages people from communities experiencing marginalisation in Bristol in the creation and performance of their own original theatre. This request builds on the organisation’s work to improve workforce diversity, increase participation and share learning.

Through this grant, Hallé will test the effectiveness of different methods of engaging community members living with dementia. This project aims to better understand the impact of four variables: location of provision, scale of ensemble and performance, types of engagement and which methods are best suited to different stages of diagnosis.

Fotonow is a Plymouth-based media social enterprise, specialising in community focused photographic and film projects. This grant will support the organisation to train local young people experiencing disadvantage to use digital media and to explore the barriers to arts participation that they face in Plymouth through a participatory action research model.

Forced Entertainment is an experimental theatre company based in Sheffield. This grant will support the company to refine and evaluate a participatory approach for creating new performances with young people in Sheffield, via the delivery of three longer-term projects in partnership with local community organisations.