Grants database

Mobilising and empowering young people across the UK, the Undivided campaign will create an online platform to allow up to 1 million young people to define their priorities in the new political landscape. This platform will drive a mass youth mobilisation campaign to ensure their voice is heard in the EU negotiations and in future political discourse. This grant will support the core campaign team of young people and the initial planning and activity, including regional roll-out, website and mobilisation activities.

What Next? is a movement bringing together arts and cultural organisations from across the UK, to articulate, champion and strengthen the role of culture in our society. In addition to the core support of the What Next? movement, this grant will enable bursaries towards attendance and travel for a National Event in October 2016.

UK Youth is a UK wide network of youth development organisations empowering over 700,000 young people to take control of their own lives with the support, encouragement and opportunities they need to help them reach their full potential and grow into confident, capable adults who lead fulfilling lives. This funding supported UK Youth to engage directly with their UK wide network of members and clubs to encourage and support them to take part in the EU Referendum voter drive and to participate in the Bite the Ballot #TurnUp initiative. This included a range of voter engagement activities, the production of supportive resources and materials, and a Facebook live streamed debate watched by tens of thousands. During this campaign 498,302 under 25s, and 1.1 million under 34s, registered to vote, which is real testament towards the support Paul Hamlyn Foundation provided for this collaborative effort by UK Youth, Bite the Ballot and a number of other campaigns running alongside.

This grant will support an intense 12 month programme of activities designed to examine and support the development of best practice in relation to the research and evaluation of participatory arts, education and cultural practices, which aim to make a positive difference in society.

Outside In provides a platform for artists who see themselves as facing barriers to the art world due to health, disability, social circumstance or isolation. Since 2006, Outside In has been run successfully as a project within Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. This grant will contribute to the setting-up costs of Outside In becoming an independent organisation.

Our grant to The Funders’ Collaboration on Leadership underpins the coming together of 50 individuals from funding and umbrella bodies, social sector organisations and government with the aim of developing innovative and scalable solutions to the challenges currently facing the charitable and voluntary sector.

ArtWorks legacy grant for the development of a consistent website presence and the presentation of archive resources alongside current and new resources. This will include building a new website, alongside the curation and annotation of ArtWorks publications and archive materials. This grant will also support the development of digital materials for an ArtWorks Convention in April 2017.

Comic Relief and Paul Hamlyn Foundation are working in partnership to deliver the Tech for Good funding programme in 2017. The programme will support 10 charity organisations who are using technology to deliver new ideas and make their services more effective. This funding will support 4 of the 10 grants made with successful applicants receiving £15,000 – £50,000 over four months, which will include £3,500 for dedicated technical support.

brap is an equality and human rights charity, based in Birmingham, which undertakes community engagement, training, research and campaigning. It will explore innovative group facilitation techniques as a way to engage communities experiencing high inward migration more positively in the integration debate. The ​‘process work’ method of community dialogue will be used to explore various viewpoints on issues of concern, in particular ​‘unheard’ and ​‘marginalised’ voices. The aim is to better understand community conflicts, establish meaningful relationships between residents and to inform public sector strategic thinking on migrant integration. Learning will be captured in a guidance document and shared via Birmingham-wide and national events.

BOM is a city-centre gallery, events and co-working space that hosts exhibitions, artist residencies, shared learning and outreach, including Arts Award. This grant will support work with Baskerville School, a secondary for students on the autistic spectrum. BOM will investigate whether teaching science through art can: 

• Increase student engagement and achievement
• Improve staff confidence in STEAM (combining traditionally arts and science subject matter)
• Increase the arts’ status within the Baskerville community

BOM will work with 120 Baskerville students, 10 teachers and 6 arts practitioners. The project will be evaluated by Dr Karen Guldberg, from The Autism Centre for Education and Research (ACER) at the University of Birmingham.

Volcano Theatre Company is a small, energetic and responsive arts company. This grant will support ​‘Spiked’: a partnership between Volcano and Coastal Housing, examining how a professional arts organisation can work with socially excluded people and make performances that represent life on the streets.

Founded in 2011 by the Mayor of London, Shubbak (‘window’ in Arabic) is London’s largest festival of contemporary Arab culture. This grant will support curators and artists from the Middle East to work with community organisations in London on a series of workshops and residencies. Shubbak will to explore and test new approaches to increasing the participation of Arab communities in the arts.