Grants database

Maiden Voyage Dance is a contemporary dance company based in Belfast. This grant will support the company to explore whether an inclusive dance group can support girls and women experiencing disadvantage to improve self-expression, wellbeing and social cohesion, in collaboration with women’s support centres across Belfast.

Hounslow Action for Youth Association provides a range of specialist one-to-one and group work support services to young people at risk of crime and anti-social behaviour, improving their engagement with education, families and community for better mental and physical health, and positive futures. This grant will support the organisation to develop creative writing workshops to support young women at risk of gang involvement and sexual exploitation in Hounslow.

Clean Break is a women-only theatre company supporting women who have experience of, or are at risk of entering, the criminal justice system. Through this grant the company will explore and develop a new supportive, integrated practice which aims to remove barriers to professional development for their members. Activities will include supporting artistic development, developing life skills, and mental health support.

Based in Glasgow, the Centre of Contemporary Arts aims to act as a hub for creative activity in the city and to support the wider cultural ecology. Through this grant, CCA will explore how longer-term engagement, partnership working and co-production can increase access for people claiming asylum and those with refugee status.

Based in North Belfast, The Duncairn delivers a programme of live music, workshops and participatory arts events. Through this grant, the organisation will explore how best to embed impact measurement across all programme strands and test which methods best enable participants and staff to reflect and articulate personal, social and skills-based changes as a result of engagement.

Young at Art will explore how supporting teachers to use drama and visual arts approaches in the classroom can impact on pupils’ critical thinking skills. The focus for teachers’ inquiry will be The World Around Us aspect of the Northern Ireland curriculum. Through arts-based approaches teachers will focus on open-ended learning processes and questioning, supporting pupils to play, imagine, develop new vocabulary and build connections between knowledge, understanding and experiences.

In Teach-Make, Imagineer Productions, Highly Sprung Performance Company, six Coventry primary schools and academics from the universities of Warwick and Central Lancashire are collaborating to develop skills, knowledge and understanding of physical theatre, art, design and technology, in order to support children’s learning in STEM and the arts, through experiential, embodied approaches and cross-curricular contexts.

Working with a group of primary schools in Birmingham, Stan’s Cafe uses Devising Theatre and immersive drama approaches to develop teachers’ practice with an emphasis on improving learning outcomes for pupils in English, and across other curriculum areas.

Drawing upon Kirklees’ textile heritage, teachers from Pentland Infant and Nursery School and nine other local primary schools will work in partnership with artist practitioners from WOVEN Festival and the University of Huddersfield to develop arts-based practice and a textile curriculum to enhance children’s learning, wellbeing and aspirations.

Milford Haven School Improvement Group aims to embed arts across the curriculum, providing both a context and a purpose for learning. Working with local partners, including Pembrokeshire Music Service and The Torch Theatre, teachers will develop arts skills and pedagogy to support them to meet the requirements of the new Welsh curriculum, which places emphasis on the role of the expressive arts, with confidence.

A collaboration between Grimm & Co and ten Astrea Trust primary schools in Rotherham, Doncaster and Sheffield, Chapter and Verse aims to support teachers to develop and embed multi-disciplinary arts approaches to teaching and learning, including immersive drama, music, poetry and storytelling. The project seeks to improve creative writing and Key Stage 2 writing outcomes, as well as children’s confidence, motivation and wellbeing.

Vishakha aims to empower communities, end violence against women and make systems accountable through rights-based intervention. This grant will support the second stage of a project to provide mental health support to young people who attend coaching institutes in Kota. This phase will focus on developing an appropriate outreach strategy and services, to build the capacity of the team and local community, and to improve engagement with city administration and local coaching institutes.