Grants database

Through this grant, Brighton People’s Theatre will test a membership programme that offers a sustained, year-round programme of work providing opportunities for residents in Hangleton and East Brighton to learn new skills, read plays together, see contemporary work and critique it, and make shows.

Gasworks is a visual arts organisation based in Vauxhall, South London. It delivers a programme of international artist residences, runs artist studios and commissions new work. Through this grant, Gasworks will run a two-year programme of participatory artist residencies working with migrant-led community organisations in Lambeth and Southwark. It will develop a framework of evaluation to better understand the impact of artist-led approaches on participants, artists and the organisation.

Transform is a producing company based in Leeds. Its programme includes large-scale participation projects made in collaboration with a range of individuals and communities, and its biennial festival presents work that spans performance, live and digital art. This grant will allow Transform to pilot a youth theatre programme that culminates in a youth takeover as part of its 2019 festival. It aims to create a more empowering, collaborative and diverse offer for young people that increases access and participation in theatre, whilst engaging young people to inform the organisation’s thinking, programming and priorities.

Flying into Physics is an innovative and engaging approach to teaching KS2 physics, using aerial arts to enable children to experience science in action, seeing and feeling the physics principles behind forces. Scarabeus Theatre will extend this work to more schools in Leicester, London and Kent, and improve teacher training and support to enable them to reinforce learning back in the classroom.

Access Technology Scotland aims to widen access to high quality digital skills education, training and facilities, particularly amongst groups experiencing disadvantage. In this project, they will work with three primary schools in North Ayrshire to deliver a music with technology project and evaluate the effectiveness of their approach.

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.