Grants database

Timespan is a cultural development organisation, museum and gallery in Helmsdale, a remote village in the North of Scotland. Timespan integrates a local history museum, contemporary art gallery, archive, geology and herb gardens, shop, and cafe. This grant supports a range of initiatives aimed at fostering social change through culture. Specifically, it will enable Timespan to expand their community programs, creating new out of-school activities for youth, sustaining wellbeing projects for the elderly, and curating new cultural provisions such as exhibitions, talks, screenings, and performances.

Take Me Somewhere is an international biennial festival and year-round sector support organisation for radical performance. This grant provides core funding, enabling Take Me Somewhere to become a more sustainable and resilient organisation which delivers against their organisational aims.

The Stuart Hall Foundation (SHF) is committed to public education, addressing urgent questions of race and inequality in culture and society through talks and events, and building a network of SHF scholars and artists in residence. This grant provides core funding to enable wider public and academic engagement and response to the ideas and work of Stuart Hall.

Strange Field provides opportunities for creative experimentation, learning, and development, with a focus on underrepresented and early-stage career artists, and the local community. This grant will fund a two year programme of activity that allows Strange Field to prioritise access and engagement, working with the local community and marginalised groups, including LGBTQIA+ groups, carers, and young people, to further develop existing strands of work, deliver new projects, and help them develop organisational resilience and sustainability.

St Pauls Carnival Community Interest Company was formed to continue to promote and celebrate African Caribbean culture and traditions. This grant supports St Pauls Carnival to grow its education programme delivery with larger numbers of primary and secondary schools in Bristol, and develop its teacher-development focused work. It promotes and celebrates African Caribbean carnival culture through arts-based learning which includes dance, music, costume-making and storytelling.

Split Banana is a social enterprise which provides relevant and inclusive sex and relationship education services to to young people within the UK. This grant will enable Split Banana to expand their existing services to serve the needs of young people with SEND, learning disabilities, autism and physical disabilities.

Sound Connections develops, enables and empowers individuals and organisations to deliver high quality music-making with children and young people. This grant provides core funding to support Sound Connections’ work to be truly national, enabling direct and ongoing inclusive change to organisational structures and practices with hundreds of charities and emergent organisations.

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.