Grants database

Youth Leads UK supports disadvantaged young people to enrich their skills, reach their potential and influence change. This grant will enable Youth Leads UK to grow by enhancing their organisational infrastructure and strategic capabilities. This includes establishing an Advisory Council, implementing a new CRM system, and developing a sales function to generate income. These improvements will allow them to focus on empowering young people, particularly from underrepresented backgrounds, to enter and excel in leadership roles.

Young Identity is a Black, Asian and ethnically diverse-led micro arts charity that engages marginalised young people in writing, performance and theatre across Greater Manchester. This grant provides core funding to enable Young Identity to strengthen their core team, to deepen their existing arts activity, to create a new programme of work and to develop their evaluation function.

Wilson Solicitors LLP is a legal aid firm that provides legal aid services in immigration, public law, community care and family law. This grant will support the recruitment and retention of specialist EU Settlement Scheme staff to work on the Here for Good Strategic Alliance for Europeans (SAFE) project.

The William Morris Gallery (WMG) is an accredited museum of national significance, housing 10,000+ objects set in Morris’ childhood home. The Gallery offers free access to the collection and temporary exhibitions alongside a year-round public engagement programme for local people. This grant provides core support towards the next phase of WMG’s organisational development as a resilient and locally relevant guardian of William Morris’ work and legacy.

Tomorrow’s Warriors are a pioneering talent development agency, music educator, creative producer and consultancy specialising in jazz, addressing under-representation of Black, female or under-resourced musical talent. This grant provides core support towards capacity building and organisational and professional development.

Timespan is a cultural development organisation, museum and gallery in Helmsdale, a remote village in the North of Scotland. Timespan integrates a local history museum, contemporary art gallery, archive, geology and herb gardens, shop, and cafe. This grant supports a range of initiatives aimed at fostering social change through culture. Specifically, it will enable Timespan to expand their community programs, creating new out of-school activities for youth, sustaining wellbeing projects for the elderly, and curating new cultural provisions such as exhibitions, talks, screenings, and performances.

Take Me Somewhere is an international biennial festival and year-round sector support organisation for radical performance. This grant provides core funding, enabling Take Me Somewhere to become a more sustainable and resilient organisation which delivers against their organisational aims.

The Stuart Hall Foundation (SHF) is committed to public education, addressing urgent questions of race and inequality in culture and society through talks and events, and building a network of SHF scholars and artists in residence. This grant provides core funding to enable wider public and academic engagement and response to the ideas and work of Stuart Hall.

Strange Field provides opportunities for creative experimentation, learning, and development, with a focus on underrepresented and early-stage career artists, and the local community. This grant will fund a two year programme of activity that allows Strange Field to prioritise access and engagement, working with the local community and marginalised groups, including LGBTQIA+ groups, carers, and young people, to further develop existing strands of work, deliver new projects, and help them develop organisational resilience and sustainability.

St Pauls Carnival Community Interest Company was formed to continue to promote and celebrate African Caribbean culture and traditions. This grant supports St Pauls Carnival to grow its education programme delivery with larger numbers of primary and secondary schools in Bristol, and develop its teacher-development focused work. It promotes and celebrates African Caribbean carnival culture through arts-based learning which includes dance, music, costume-making and storytelling.

Split Banana is a social enterprise which provides relevant and inclusive sex and relationship education services to to young people within the UK. This grant will enable Split Banana to expand their existing services to serve the needs of young people with SEND, learning disabilities, autism and physical disabilities.

Sound Connections develops, enables and empowers individuals and organisations to deliver high quality music-making with children and young people. This grant provides core funding to support Sound Connections’ work to be truly national, enabling direct and ongoing inclusive change to organisational structures and practices with hundreds of charities and emergent organisations.