Grants database

This TDF partnership development grant will support St Mary’s and seven other primary schools from Tandridge Teaching Alliance to develop a partnership with two experienced dance artists. Together, they will begin to scope out and craft in-depth strategies to support children to develop mastery in maths through dance.

First Story will develop a writer-in-residence model to improve creative writing and achieve whole-school change. Partnering with eight secondary schools, the programme seeks to reach and influence the whole school community through teacher continuing professional development and learning, a new student ambassador initiative and parental engagement.

Spark Arts for Children runs performing and visual arts education projects to support children to discover, enjoy and celebrate the arts. Through this grant, Spark Arts will explore and test a programme of experiential learning and teaching strategies built around an annual children’s festival. The initiative aims to develop teacher’s skills and confidence in arts-based learning and to give children high quality theatre experiences to enhance their learning and development.

A partnership of four regional Caribbean carnivals, East Midlands Caribbean Carnival Arts Network (emccan) creates opportunities to share cultural practice and advocates for carnival in education. Through this programme, emccan will bring carnival arts practice to pupils in rural schools to support the development of students’ soft skills, wellbeing and educational progress.

Phosphoros Theatre makes political theatre performed by refugee and asylum-seeking actors. This grant will support Phosphoros to make work with and performed by unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people.

Streetwise Opera is a performing arts charity that supports people with experience of homelessness. This grant will help Streetwise Opera to reach more people, build organisational capacity and develop cross-sector partnerships through regional hubs.

Delivered in partnership with three arts organisations across the UK, this programme aims to increase access to dance for early years aged children as participants and audiences and to support artists’ development and the commissioning and touring of new work.

Touring company Paines Plough specialises in commissioning and producing new plays and helping playwrights to develop their craft. This grant will support Paines Plough to transform a small scale touring network into a resilient circuit that sustains the wider touring sector, to connect with young audiences and to train a new and diverse generation of artists and touring companies.

42nd Street is a Manchester based charity that supports young people with their mental health and wellbeing. This grant will support the organisation to develop the Horsfall arts programme and to integrate this initiative into 42nd Street’s wider offer.

Based in East London, Whitechapel Gallery presents modern and contemporary exhibitions and delivers artists commissions and school and community engagement programmes. Through this grant, the gallery will run a two-year programme of participatory workshops, exhibitions and public events in collaboration with local Black, Asian and ethnic minority women and community support organisations.

Heart of Glass delivers socially engaged contemporary arts programmes in St Helens, Merseyside. Through this grant, Heart of Glass will explore how best to support working-class young women to develop the self-confidence and skills to create new artwork and to produce and promote cultural activity for their peers.

Bedford Creative Arts is a contemporary arts charity dedicated to commissioning high quality art with communities and working with artists to explore new developments in socially engaged art practice. This grant will support Bedford Creative Arts to expand a successful pilot approach of co-creation with residents across a larger geographic area, test different methods of engagement, share skills and knowledge with key partners and develop a deeper understanding of the work’s social impact.