Grants database

International Curators Forum (ICF) is an agency for cultural transformation in the arts. They promote the work of cultural practitioners by developing artistic and curatorial practice and discourse around contemporary visual art. They focus on the social impact of the visual arts across issues and borders through projects and programmes that empower diverse communities. This grant provides core funding which will be used to invest in key new management roles.

Idle Women is an art and social justice collaboration​founded in response to austerity cuts and systemic inequality in the arts. This grant provides core funding to support Idle Women to deliver a new and ambitious programme of co-created artistic activity, integrated with their established projects and reaching more women as co-creators and audiences over four years.

Idea Space is a community arts education charity delivering arts-based outreach projects with community participation. This grant will enable Idea Space to grow its education programmes in SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) groups in three mainstream schools in Leytonstone (East London). They will run engaging experimental art sessions for SEND children during school hours, in an inclusive and comfortable environment. Idea Space will also work with school staff to develop art resources and a pedagogical arts-based model enabling SEND children to participate in arts education.

Hackney Showroom is a unique hybrid of an award-winning theatre production company and a grassroots civic arts centre. This grant provides core funding to enable Hackney Showroom to increase capacity for the delivery of their wraparound programmes and audience development activity, ensuring the social change output of their organisation continues to grow in scale and ambition across the UK. It will also support the seamless journey of marginalised artists from first meeting through to production and audience engagement with the work.

Grand Union is a visual arts organisation, providing studios for artists and a public programme of events, exhibitions, and community collaborations focused on cultural, social and environmental justice. This grant supports Grand Union to reimagine their workforce and leadership. With their communities, they will redefine who has a say in how they work, what they deliver, and the policies needed to support authentically equitable working practices.

Glasgow Zine Library is a community space, self-publishing library and archive working with adults and young people, artists and marginalised community groups to provide affordable and accessible community arts programmes. This grant provides support to enable Glasgow Zine Library to deliver their core activities of arts, heritage and community-led programmes, zine festivals, youth work, and professional development opportunities, while also improving library resources, by growing their zine collection and extending opening hours.

First Take is a not-for-profit film and digital arts organisation working in oppressed communities. This grant provides core funding to support with staff costs and development, and help with the marketing and distribution of films to enable them to reach a greater audience and therefore have a greater impact on creating social change and tackling injustice in the LGBTQIA+ community.

Far From The Norm is an award-winning hip hop dance company, working across live performance and hip hop artist development. This grant funds core support towards capacity building through investment in senior leadership, enabling further organisational development.

The European Network on Statelessness is a civil society alliance committed to ending statelessness in Europe, and ensuring that stateless people living in Europe are protected. This grant provides core funding to resource work aligned with their core work of addressing statelessness in Europe, including the UK.

Company Three is a theatre company making transformative theatre through long-term, intensive collaboration between young people and professional theatre-makers. This grant provides core costs to enable Company Three to build capacity within their team and to further embed young people’s voices across the organisation.

Clod Ensemble is an independent performance company creating extraordinary, interdisciplinary artistic work that pushes boundaries. This grant supports their project, Ear Opener, which tackles challenges in the teaching of Music composition at GCSE and A Level, including barriers to access for young people whose creative approaches and prior knowledge are sometimes not understood or supported in a system which often centers western classical music; and support for teachers to develop their practice. Clod Ensemble is exploring how the Ear Opener approaches can be made as accessible and effective as possible, so that stronger and more equitable composing education can become embedded in secondary schools.

Citrus Arts use their experience of Travelling Circus life as a model for artistic exploration, responsibility, and creative learning. This grant provides core funding to enable Citrus Arts to facilitate deep conversation with the communities of the Rhondda Valley on pressing social issues including housing justice and home ownership, labour rights and economic justice, Brexit and internationalism, and climate change and migration. They will also produce artists, workers and high-quality, deeply-rooted circus works that reflect the ideas, values, skills and hopes of the diverse, multi-generational community.