Grants database

Skaped is a community-led charity that empowers young people to engage with community building and social change through creative arts. This grant will provide core costs to enable Skaped to support young people from marginalised communities through workshops, educational programmes, 1:1 support and the provision of training opportunities.

Shooting Fish are a new-writing theatre company working for and with communities of high deprivation where there is little arts activity. This grant supports Shooting Fish to work with Year 1 and 2 pupils and their teachers in three Bristol primary schools exploring how child-led, play-based drama practice can support language development, oracy and engagement in writing.

Seraphus delivers immigration advice services in asylum, immigration, EU citizens’ rights, and human rights law. This grant supports work focused on improving the legal rights of EU Citizens to stay in the UK following Brexit.

Rising Arts Agency is a not-for-profit creative agency working with young people to create radical social change. This grant provides core funding, supporting them to deliver a wider programme of work and equipping their leadership, team and community to navigate the structural challenges currently faced.

RESOLVE is an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges. This grant will support activities that test the organisation’s capacity to operate ​‘infrastructurally’, trialling methods to facilitate the networked distribution of resources to ecologies of practice and build a stronger, more sustainable platform for trans-local social change.

REIGN educates on child sexual abuse and exploitation through ​‘The Collective’, a group of people with lived experience. This grant will enable REIGN to recruit a ​‘young person’s board’ of 16–25-year-olds with experience of child sexual abuse and exploitation. This will ensure their work remains relevant to the concerns of young people and ensures the opportunity for leadership is continually passed onto future generations.

Radical Ecology works across art, research and policy to advance environmental justice. This grant will support a combination of core and delivery support which will underpin the current phase of Radical Ecology’s development and work at the intersections of art and environmental justice.

Outburst Arts is dedicated to exploring and celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender stories and experiences through the arts in Northern Ireland. This grant provides core funding enabling Outburst Arts to be more ambitious through supported strategic multiannual planning and artist resourcing.

Open City Architecture is an architecture education charity, and creators of the annual Open House Festival. Their dedicated education programme supports young people from underrepresented communities to learn about architecture and design creatively. This grant supports Open City Architecture to deliver two school programmes bringing architect practitioners into schools and extending Open City’s work into Birmingham. ​‘It’s My City Too!’ focuses on life skills and independent living alongside design, craft and interactive play. ​‘Young City Makers’ offers a series of in-school workshops and city visits to develop creative skills, critical thinking, team building and oracy, to improve pupils understanding of place and space.

Metroland Cultures is an artist-led and community-centred charity working within the London Borough of Brent using socially engaged creative practice. This grant will provide core support, enabling Metroland Cultures to further develop their governance structures and systems, cultivate partnerships and retain our support to artists and community groups.

Metal support artists from all disciplines by creating time and space for the development of ideas and philosophies around artists’ work through residencies, producing, commissioning, exhibitions, debate and discussion, touring and publishing. This grant provides core funding to enable Metal to work across Liverpool, Peterborough and Southend with artists and communities to explore social alienation and to reimagine what the opposite of disenfranchisement and exclusion from society would look like.

Kings Cross Brunswick Neighbourhood Association (KCBNA) tackles inequality, creates opportunities and transforms lives from three community centres and through outreach work. This grant will support KCBNA to deliver their youth programme for disadvantaged young people across seven days a week.