Grants database

The Wharton Trust is a charity delivering community support services in Hartlepool, County Durham. This grant supports the establishment of Hartlepool Young People’s Foundation, including employing lead staff, building membership and growing sector collaboration. The Foundation aims to create a stronger combined voice to lobby for a sustained, high-quality offer for young people in the region.

An established youth charity based in Hull, The Warren offers a variety of services including an open access youth space, counselling, music service with associated record label, active LGBTQ and young women’s groups and sexual health advice. This grant will contribute to new part-time Development Manager salary and to building operation costs. It will also enable The Warren to establish and grow its social enterprise.

Based in Manchester, RECLAIM supports working-class young people to be seen, be heard and lead meaningful social change. The programme ensures young people develop confidence and are self-reflective and critical thinkers. Funding will support strategic planning and operational development to support growth ambitions.

Fight for Peace combines boxing and martial arts with education and personal development to realise the potential of young people in communities affected by crime, violence and social exclusion. Fight for Peace will use their ​‘innovate and scale’ approach to deliver an intensive programme of training targeting young people in prisons and young offender institutions, in partnership with Second Chance.

Oily Cart create and tour original, high quality, multi-sensory theatre for children and young people with complex disabilities, including profound learning disabilities, across the UK. This two-year project will enable the company to work with a range of expert partners to research, pilot and evaluate performance approaches to better engage with deafblind children.

An Talla Solias gallery will test a new curatorial framework designed to better reach local audiences including families, people with lower incomes and the elderly. It will use this experience to embed a culture of reflective practice and develop a new engagement strategy tailored to its local context.

Pop Up want to change the writing culture in their partner schools by motivating children to write for enjoyment. This grant will support them to deepen their relationships with schools in England and establish two new clusters in Wales. They aim to deliver better continuing professional development for teachers, improve their online resources, share learning sector-wide and raise awareness of the importance of writing for pleasure at policy level.

Akademi wants to deliver a programme in two schools for children with Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC), exploring how dance can be more successfully delivered for ASC pupils and how the movement vocabulary of South Asian Dance, such as hand gestures and facial expressions, might particularly support pupils’ communication and physical needs.

Funding will support ArtWorks Cymru partnership to develop the next phase of activity. Part of the funding will resource the time of a partnership manager, the Welsh contribution to the Artworks Alliance Convention, and business planning for the next phase of ArtWorks Cymru.

This funding will support ArtWorks North East to continue to offer the important networking opportunities that artists have benefited from and appreciated, including weekly radio programme/​podcast, monthly talks and meet ups, seed funding/​training bursaries for participatory artists, as well as support for social media platforms and a newsletter.

Collaborate CIC works across local government, civil society and the private sector to help public services tackle complex social problems. This funding will support research to look at how funders can work together and improve their responses to citizen disenfranchisement in Europe and is part of a collaboration with other funders, including the Barrow Cadbury Trust.

This programme, which is a collaboration between the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and the Education Endowment Foundation, will evaluate the impact of cultural learning on young people’s academic and non-cognitive development. The aim is to develop an evidence base that will help to ensure that young people, particularly from the most disadvantaged backgrounds, have the opportunity through cultural learning to develop the knowledge, skills and cultural capital to lead fulfilled lives.