Grants database

Heard is a national charity that aims to improve media coverage of misrepresented groups and issues, improving people’s lives and the way they are treated by society. The All About Trans Coalition for Change will transform public understanding of trans lives by uniting trans-led organisations and amplifying underrepresented voices.

TimbaDash Theatre CIC creates sensory, immersive theatre for young people with learning disabilities in SEN schools based in Northeast England. TimbaDash Theatre’s approach combines immersive storytelling, sensory play, puppetry, movement, non-verbal communication and intensive interaction techniques to engage children with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). This grant will enable them to work in deep partnership with two SEND specialist schools in Newcastle and North Tyneside.

Theatre Alibi is a touring theatre company making high-quality work for the broadest possible range of audiences. Theatre Alibi runs Emmanuel Hall, a venue programming exhibitions, performances, workshops and other creative activity for children and young people. This grant supports Theatre Alibi to work with five local Exeter primary schools, focusing on generating and creating stories and cross-artform approaches, to support the development of pupils’ oracy.

TACO! is an artist-led, visual arts organisation supporting artistic research, production, and exchange. This grant supports the delivery of ​‘Estates’ – an expansive umbrella programme of long-term artist projects and events focusing on collectively reimagining alternative shared futures for communities, housing, and public spaces in the estates surrounding TACO! Together they want to realise ambitious, critical artworks that can affect changes in ownership and use of public space, housing inequality, environmental justice, and parity of cultural and racial representation in the public realm.

Speech Bubbles delivers drama programmes for young children with communication needs and supports other theatres to do the same. This grant provides core support for Speech Bubbles to develop their England-wide programme of drama-based work with Key Stage 1 and SEND pupils with Speech, Language and Communication needs.

Shubbak supports and celebrates the diversity of Arab and SWANA (South West Asian/​North African) artists’ creativity through its professional, participatory and engagement programmes, touring, and biennial festival. This grant will support the organisation to redesign their structure to be more community-focused and build capacity to increase outreach and expand youth services.

The Sheba Soul Ensemble, a Black women-led community collective from Wales, are piloting a program to promote anti-racist practices through arts-led practice in three Welsh primary schools: two in Newport and one in rural Monmouth. Partners are supporting pupils to create a portfolio of their work through a rich variety of global majority arts, reflecting their learning experiences. Teachers and school staff are building artistic confidence and integrating anti-racist practices into the Welsh curriculum.

Rosetta Arts empowers the lives of East Londoners through inclusive visual arts programmes that nurture creativity, wellbeing, and creative careers. THRIVE is a partnership programme between Rosetta Arts, three primary schools in Newham, and Eko Pathways, a specialist Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) provision from the Eko Trust school consortium. Alongside the Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN) London and the Newham Heritage Centre, this initiative engages a team of artists to support Year 5 pupils and teachers in exploring East London’s rich heritage, while developing engaging arts-based curricula in Science and History, and helping pupils learn about creative career pathways.

Revoluton Arts is an arts organisation based in Luton, making bold creative projects in their local areaThis grant supports the Creative People and Places programme, which aims to transform access to arts and culture in places where engagement is significantly below the national average. This project will create an environment where Luton communities, which have historically experienced underfunding and structural inequalities, can actively participate in creative opportunities as decision-makers, producers, artists, and audiences, raising aspirations for current and future generations.

Hajar Press is an independent political publishing house by and for people of colour. This grant will enable Hajar to sustain and expand their work of publishing books by writers of colour while focusing on increasing organisational sustainability, growing their readership, and strengthening community engagement.

Everyday Magic is a storytelling charity working with deeply with ten London Primary schools over three years. This project is building on successful approaches developed and refined over two decades, which use storytelling practice to scaffold oracy for early years and key stage one pupils. Now, Everyday Magic are working with its school partners to develop professional learning for teachers and teaching assistants to build interactive storytelling practices for their classrooms to create sustainable practice for schools.

Migrant Voice is a migrant-led, national organisation focused on migrant-centred communications, campaigning, and advocacy to achieve migrants’ rights and justice for all. They build migrants’ skills to speak in the media in order to strengthen migrant voices in civil society, counter xenophobia, develop understanding and build support for migrants’ rights. This grant supports their ​‘My Future Back’ campaign for international students wrongfully accused of cheating.