Grants database

Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums is a regional museum, art gallery and archives service. Through this project, the museum will partner with ten schools from Newcastle and North and South Tyneside; with local arts organisations, the Arbeia Roman Fort, Laing Art Gallery and Segedunum Roman Fort; and with Newcastle University on research and evaluation. Drawing on the resources of museum collections and through three art forms (visual arts, craft and creative writing), the project aims to support teachers’ in developing pupils’ communication and enquiry skills.

The Forge, a participatory arts commissioning and producing agency and Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation, will partner with seven schools, two of which are special educational needs and disabilities settings. This project will develop teachers’ knowledge, skills and experience in using photography to support children’s progress in creative writing.

Real Ideas Organisation will work in partnership with eight schools from the Learning Academies Trust in Plymouth, a city which is rapidly becoming a digital arts hub. This project will focus on developing and empowering teachers to explore and use digital art forms in their practice, to support the development of children’s writing across the curriculum.

Prime Theatre, a professional children and young people’s theatre company working in Swindon and Wiltshire, and an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation, will work in partnership with seven schools from the White Horse Federation and Swindon Teaching School. Building on an existing relationship with Drove Primary, the lead school in the project, theatre practitioners will collaborate with teachers to explore how drama and performance poetry can support the acquisition and understanding of language and empower teachers to develop and embed these arts-based approaches in their practice. The project aims to support children’s progress in speaking and listening, reading and writing.

Ten rural schools led by Parc Eglos School will partner with MADE, specialists in creative music and dance work in education, youth, community and health care settings, with involvement from the Minack Theatre. The project aims to use dance, drama and music, with a focus on story, narrative and play, to develop teachers’ knowledge, skills and experience in supporting the development of speech, language and communication amongst children in the schools’ Nursery and Reception classes.

Morda Church of England Primary, located in rural Shropshire near the Welsh border, will come together with seven other schools to enable teachers to use drama, inquiry for learning and expert framing to create imaginary contexts for cross-curricular learning. In particular, the project will explore the Mantle of the Expert pedagogy developed by Dorothy Heathcote.

Attain Academy Partnership, on behalf of the Chelmsford Teaching Schools Alliance, will lead this project, working with Essex Music Services and London Music Masters. Teachers will be supported to embed music-based approaches to learning, based on the Kodály method, across the Early Years and Foundation Stage curriculum, extending into Keystage 1 in the second year. The initiative aims to improve school readiness amongst pupils and to foster personal, social, communications, and language development.

Trust for Reaching the Unreached works to improve the health and education of communities in rural areas. Through this grant, the organisation will develop a programme to raise awareness of mental health issues and build capacity to provide community-based support.

Synergy Sansthan is a youth-led organisation, co-founded and staffed by individuals from rural backgrounds, that specialises in developing holistic, experiential learning programmes. This grant will support the development of a youth resource centre offering internships, as well as peer-led workshops on leadership, gender and inclusion and career development.

Suchana Uttor Chandipur Community Society works to address socio-economic disadvantage in rural communities, with a strong focus on education. This project aims to strengthen multilingual learning among Santal and Kora children through mobile libraries and to support their cultural identities in the learning process.

Savera Foundation works to build the capacity of tribal communities in Giridih and to improve livelihoods, health, social equity and agricultural development. Through this grant, the organisation aims to develop a sustainable programme to address water and food security, by renovating water resources and providing agricultural training.

Samavesh was established to develop leadership and governance capacity in local communities, with a view towards creating a more equitable and democratic society. This grant will support the second phase of the expansion of the organisation’s education project to include community involvement in school management and interventions at the pre-school level.