Grants database

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.

This grant will support 2014 Breakthrough Fund recipient David Agnew to continue to develop adventurous programming and audiences, largely in music and outdoor events, in partnership with venues and other producers in the North West.

SPUD delivers participatory projects that enable audiences to engage with art, the environment and architecture. Through this grant, SPUD will develop a mobile workshop space that offers people with dementia and their families the opportunity to explore their creativity and self-expression with professional artists.

Shout Out UK is a youth-led network that provides a platform to debate and discuss the world young people want to live in on and offline. Through this grant, Shout Out UK aims to run a series of sporting events which pit political figures against each other for charity as a way of engaging more young people in politics.

Rosie Adediran is an experienced singing teacher and musical director based in East London. Through this grant, she will scope and develop an online platform offering high quality resources, songs and training for families and staff in settings such as children’s centres and play groups.