Grants database

Become provides support and advice to care-experienced children and young people across England, to help them realise their potential and understand their rights. Through the grant, a new coaching programme will be piloted with 190 young people in London. The pilot will use evidence and learning to inform replication of the programme in other regions. It will also develop and implement an income diversification strategy to enhance organisational sustainability and capacity.

Chol Theatre will extend the reach of its ​‘Imaginary Communities’ drama-based approach to learning to schools across the North of England. It aims to improve children’s well-being, enjoyment and engagement with learning. Chol also plans to develop its CPDL model, enabling teachers and artists to become practitioner/​researchers.

The Blahs will explore and test an integrated model involving participatory theatre and digital learning to support social, moral, spiritual and cultural learning in six Leeds primary schools. A performance of The Vultures’ Song about the Partition of India, will enable pupils to engage with concepts of homeland, belonging, cultural/​faith identity and citizenship.

Building on Philharmonia’s existing digital audience engagement work The Virtual Orchestra aims to increase and diversify audiences in its Leicester, Bedford, Canterbury and Basingstoke residencies through a tailored series of digital walk-through installations, virtual reality experiences, live performances and an audience development plan integrated into its offer. The impact of the programme will be tracked over the four years of the grant.

Based in Belfast, the Black Box is an alternative culture and entertainment venue, which runs creative activities for learning-disabled young adults in collaboration with local artists and arts organisations. This grant will pilot the creation of an accessible, public space in Belfast City Centre offering daily creative programmes for learning disabled individuals across all age groups.

Migration Exchange aims to inform, connect and strengthen work in support of a fair and welcoming immigration system in the United Kingdom. It supports an informal network of independent funders to share information, address knowledge gaps and create opportunities to align funding where this increases impact.

Through this grant the Migration Observatory aims to extend their model to the domain of migrant integration. This initiative will develop a suite of data resources tailored to the needs of policymakers and NGOs as they plan integration interventions and participate in debates about integration. By promoting accurate and nuanced information about integration, the project also seeks to foster a more balanced media and political debates in the UK.

Migrants Resource Centre aims to enable refugees, people who migrate and asylum seekers to better integrate into UK society. This grant will back a programme to encourage increased civic participation by these new arrivals to London. It will also support The Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens to develop its specialist legal and advocacy work to increase citizenship registration by undocumented young people.

Runnymede Trust is the UK’s leading race equality think tank, which seeks to inform public and policy debates on race equality, migration and integration. This core grant will contribute to the salaries of its director and policy and communications officers. Through this grant, Runnymede will foster collaboration between the migration and race equality sectors to inform and drive forward migration and integration debates. It also aims to improve framing and messaging for different audiences; develop and expand partnerships; and to work with an external evaluator to identify ways in which they can grow their impact.

Ashley Community Housing will explore and evaluate a Collective Impact approach, bringing together private sector employers, the Bristol Mayor’s Office, the local authority and local refugee community organisations to find solutions that facilitate refugees’ integration into the labour market.

Schools are potentially natural places for integration where the needs of migrant children and families can be identified and addressed and where equal participation in society can be facilitated. This project will engage schools and a wide range of stakeholders in education and in integration in order to identify good and promising practice towards successful integration of migrant children and their families, across all areas of learning and school life.

Award-winning writer and filmmaker Frances Weetman aims to develop The Germinal: a project that seeks to support young voters. Through this grant, she will explore ways of collecting and developing young people’s opinions about democracy, and the best ways of providing non-partisan information to and engaging with this underrepresented group. Funding will contribute to market research and to work to develop relationships with key stakeholders.