Grants database

This grant will increase the organisation’s capacity to deliver an expanded offer of live music events in libraries across the UK. The programme will include creative workshops and bespoke progression opportunities for local young people.

This grant will help LIFT Festival to test different approaches to overcoming identified barriers to engagement, and to better evaluate and understand the impact of its LIFT Tottenham programme.

Barrowland Ballet is a contemporary dance theatre company based in Glasgow. Working with participants in three Additional Support Needs schools and eight venues, the organisation will explore ways that sound and movement can provide authentic artistic participatory experiences for children and young people with complex support needs. The process will inform the narrative and structure of upcoming productions.

The Architecture Centre works across the South West to engage people in design, architecture and place-making. Through this grant, the centre will test a model of long-term partnership working in early years settings in areas of multiple deprivation. The project aims to engage young audiences with place-based learning activities, including sensory walks and visits to local cultural venues.

Through this grant, Samarth Foundation will work with communities in 15 villages to develop a drought resilience system.

Music for Change aims to improve the speech, language and communication skills of children aged 3 to 5, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, with English as an additional language and/​or speech and language delay. The programme will run in clusters of nurseries and offer training for early years practitioners in Hastings, Luton, Essex and London Borough of Harrow.

The Gloucester Roundhouse Project (GRP) will see the City of Gloucester and the Roundhouse (RH) develop a long-term relationship to create extraordinary partnerships between arts organisations, artists and young people. RH will use their expertise and track record in nurturing the next generation of young talent to help Gloucester transform the city’s cultural offering alongside the ongoing and much-needed regeneration of the city centre. The project will build local capacity and advocacy with the longer-term vision of a new, iconic Gloucester Roundhouse opening as the centre piece of the city’s ambition to be UK City of Culture 2025.

Based in Liverpool, FACT is a media arts centre offering a unique programme of exhibitions, film and participant-led art projects. This three-year programme will develop FACT’s work within prisons, which aims to widen and deepen cultural engagement and change attitudes within the criminal justice system. Led by artists, FACT will produce a series of collaborative projects with participants, share the resulting artworks within prisons and in FACT’s public programmes. Funding will also support the organisation to evaluate and understand the wider impact of the programme.

The Mix is the UK’s leading digital charity providing holistic multi-channel support for young people’s well-being using digital and mobile channels. This grant will support The Mix to explore and develop an understanding of the issues, opinions and awareness of children and young people around the effects of Brexit on EU citizens living the UK.

Peace First is dedicated to helping young people around the world to become powerful peacemakers. This grant will support the pilot of a nationwide Peace First Challenge engaging UK youth in creating transformative social action projects.

This grant will continue to support the coordination function for work on the EU Withdrawal Bill. This will support advocacy groups to collaborate across a wide range of sectors including human rights, environment, consumer, workers’ rights, equality, democracy, transparency, food, farming and trade to ensure that the interests of these communities can be fully heard as the UK prepares to leave the EU.

This grant will provide core support towards an emerging platform that facilitates networking and campaigning related to workers’ rights. The project will focus on building a network of workers, creating organising tools and resources and developing a bank of evidence on the experiences of workers in different sectors.