Grants database

Young People’s Puppet Theatre (YPPT) offers year-long creative puppetry workshops to schools. Through this grant, YPPT will work with Year 6 pupils in four primary schools in Watford and Cambridge to enable them to design and make puppets and create shows for parents, their school and local community. YPPT will evaluate the projects’ impact on young people’s wellbeing, confidence, resilience, communication and collaboration skills, and engagement with learning.

QUAD is an international centre for engagement in contemporary art and film. Through this programme QUAD will collaborate with five secondary schools to explore how visual and digital literacy can support skills development. Focusing on visual art, photography and digital media, the initiative will examine how these approaches can be applied across the curriculum and beyond the classroom.

Working with a small team of experienced digital and analogue artists, Warwick Arts Centre plans to explore and test the impact of weaving creative, participatory arts practice (such as rehearsal room techniques) into the Computer Science curriculum for secondary school students, to support the development of conceptual understanding.

Off The Record (OTR) is a mental health charity working in Bristol and South Gloucestershire with young people. OTR aims to transition from a ​‘mental health service provider’ to ​‘mental health social movement.’ This grant will help OTR to establish ​‘Diffusion’, a trading arm, to support this vision.

This grant will support a series of pilot networking events for museums, community groups and third sector organisations, to stimulate partnerships that build social value in communities and to assess the potential for a national programme.

Toynbe Hall works to support people and communities experiencing economic disadvantage. This grant will support the organisation to review their Make it! youth project, which has positively supported the lives of hundreds of young people in East London, and to develop a new youth programme to be implemented in 2019.

Safe Passage works to help refugees find safe, legal routes to sanctuary. On the 80^th anniversary of the Kindertransport, this campaign aims to secure pledges from local authorities to take in at-risk child refugees. This grant will fund a series of cultural events designed to gain public support and commitments from local authorities.

The Ministry of Stories is a creative writing and mentoring charity for children in East London. They work to build confidence, self-respect and communication skills in our young writers through a range of programmes and workshops. This grant will help the children’s creative writing sector to improve its evidence base and evaluation practices.

The overarching goal of the conference is to promote understanding of the constitution, rule of law principles, and legislative frameworks and processes in the UK during and after exit from the EU. The conference will involve civil society organisations from a range of sectors, academic experts, think tanks, and parliamentarians.

Who Cares? Scotland works with children and young people with experience of the care system in Scotland to help them to speak out and access the rights to which they are entitled. The organisation focuses on influencing the people, cultures and systems that will positively affect the quality of life for care-experienced people. This grant will provide core funding to help them build on their advocacy work, ahead of the root and branch review of the care system in Scotland.

SMK provides training and support to those seeking to bring about positive social change. SMK is a powerful voice for this community, working to influence public offices and provide opportunities for smaller organisations and individuals to access the resources they need to be heard. This funding will enable SMK to further develop advocacy efforts with and for civil society, and support the organisation’s future development.

One Dance UK is the sector support organisation leading the way to a stronger, more vibrant and more diverse dance sector. The organisation works to promote one clear voice to support, advocate, enhance and give profile to dance in the UK. They provide information, resources and opportunities for a workforce that is well equipped to secure dance’s prominence in the cultural landscape of the future. Core funding will help the organisation to increase capacity, to fund research to demonstrate impact and to advocate for the sector.