Grants database

Ignite! provides creative opportunities to children and young people across the East Midlands and beyond. This grant supports the delivery of Curious Tots, which is an in-depth, arts-based programme delivered weekly in primary school nursery classrooms. Schools engaging with the Curious Tots programme will have an artist practitioner embedded in the classroom for one day per week for a year. The programme also supports the professional learning and development of nursery class staff. Over the next 3 years, Ignite! plans to scale the programme to 5 schools in Nottingham.

Delight works in partnership with arts organisations, schools and external agencies to co-develop and co-deliver high quality arts programmes that address social and educational challenges faced by primary aged pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. This grant provides support for Delight’s core costs during a three-year period of research, development and delivery. Delight is aiming to evolve, strengthen and grow its delivery models and programmes with its Surrey and Croydon primary school partners.

The University of Leicester’s Attenborough Arts Centre (AAC) is the largest contemporary art gallery in Leicester. This grant supports the next phase of their SENsory Atelier programme. AAC plan to embed their approach, which involves child-led, multi-sensory practice and Reggio Emilia principles, in nine SEND schools in Leicester. This will involve arts practitioners working collaboratively with teaching staff. Pupils aged 4–19 will learn through several different art forms, building physical, social, emotional and communication skills, and greater engagement and agency over their learning. AAC also plan to trial the approach with five mainstream schools and share learning about the SENSory Atelier arts-based approach more widely.

Maslaha builds community with racialised Muslim young people and aims to work deeply with them to foster a sense of pride and self-worth as Muslims. They also collect evidence on the needs and experience of young Muslims, provide practical solutions to unmet needs, influence sector bodies through a strong evidence base to design better services, and shift systems to ensure better outcomes for young Muslims. This grants provides a contribution to Maslaha’s core costs.

Kids of Colour supports young people of colour aged 25 and under to explore race, identity and culture. Its mission is to ​‘undo the legacy of racism across all its forms’ in young people’s lives. This grant will support staff wellbeing and retention as the organisation grows. It will also enable the organisation to focus on strategy, and longer-term planning. This will include better articulation of impact and learning from its processes in care and support.

Runnymede is the UK’s leading independent race equality think tank, using research to challenge racism and push for fairness. For over 50 years, they’ve worked with communities, politicians and organisations to tackle unfair systems and help build a society where everyone belongs.

Camden Giving is an independent charity working to end local poverty and inequality in Camden. Since 2017, they have operated as a participatory funder in the belief that people facing inequality are the ones best placed to find the solutions to the challenges facing communities in Camden. This grant supports Camden Giving to focus on participatory grant making models, aiming to involve more residents in their grant making.

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.